Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Advanced Practice Nurse: $147K median posted pay.
From 107 salary bands employers posted on 109 open advanced practice nurse roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Veterans Health Administration | 47 | — |
| Military Treatment Facilities under DHA | 35 | — |
| Defense Health Agency | 10 | — |
| Indian Health Service | 4 | — |
| University of Chicago | 4 | — |
| U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command | 4 | — |
| U.S. Army Medical Command | 3 | — |
| Advocate Health | 1 | — |
| Methodisthealth | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open advanced practice nurse roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing | 109 | — |
| Advanced Practice Nursing | 55 | — |
| Midwifery | 6 | — |
| Clinical Trials | 5 | — |
| Statistics | 4 | — |
| Emergency Response | 4 | — |
| Therapy Documentation | 4 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 4 | — |
| Physician Assistant Practice | 3 | — |
| Electronic Health Records | 2 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site91%99 roles
- Not stated9%10 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 109 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 107 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Advanced Practice Nurse (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.