Counted October 21, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Graduate Registered Nurse: $99K median posted pay.
From 11 salary bands employers posted on 26 open graduate registered 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Freseniusmedicalcare | 14 | — |
| Advocate Health | 6 | — |
| Denverhealth | 4 | — |
| bmc | 1 | — |
| Silver Cross | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open graduate registered nurse roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing | 20 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 16 | — |
| Dialysis | 9 | — |
| Military Operations | 9 | — |
| Patient Assessment | 6 | — |
| Pediatric Care | 5 | — |
| Clinical Trials | 5 | — |
| Customer Service | 5 | — |
| Practical Nursing | 5 | — |
| Continuous Improvement | 5 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site96%25 roles
- Not stated4%1 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 26 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 21, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 11 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Graduate Registered 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.