Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Certified Nurse Assistant: $43K median posted pay.
From 51 salary bands employers posted on 54 open certified nurse assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Cross | 33 | — |
| Avera | 14 | — |
| Mainegeneral | 4 | — |
| Lifespacecommunities | 1 | — |
| Christian Living Communities | 1 | — |
| Prisma Health | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open certified nurse assistant roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Assistant Care | 54 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 54 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 33 | — |
| Customer Service | 18 | — |
| Infection Control | 16 | — |
| Pain Management | 15 | — |
| Stock Replenishment | 13 | — |
| OSHA Safety Compliance | 13 | — |
| Medical Surgical Nursing | 2 | — |
| Patient Transfer and Mobility | 1 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site100%54 roles
- Not stated0%0 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 54 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 51 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Certified Nurse Assistant (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.