Nurse Practitioner
Diagnoses and treats with prescriptive authority in many states. Sits between nursing hours and physician scope.
- Pay band (est.)
- $129k–$170k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- clinic
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 45/100
- Hours burden
- 65/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play23th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge22th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand98th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay84th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body48th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy48th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit8th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility74th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance88th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Scope varies by state; documentation load is heavy.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 65/100 and people intensity 90/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Nurse Practitioners (29-1171): median $129,210, 90th percentile $169,950. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +41.0%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.