Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Nurse Practitioner Or Physician Assistant: $136K median posted pay.
From 37 salary bands employers posted on 122 open nurse practitioner or physician 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmark Health | 31 | — |
| Ochsner Health (Ochsner) | 22 | — |
| Avera | 12 | — |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 12 | — |
| Wustl | 12 | — |
| Sluhn (SLUHN) | 9 | — |
| Ochsner Health (OchsnerLSUHealthSystemNL) | 7 | — |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | 3 | — |
| Ummh | 3 | — |
| Sollis Health | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open nurse practitioner or physician assistant roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing | 122 | — |
| Physician Assistant Practice | 122 | — |
| Advanced Practice Nursing | 122 | — |
| HIPAA Compliance | 84 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 63 | — |
| Patient Education | 51 | — |
| Accessibility | 50 | — |
| Advanced Cardiac Life Support | 44 | — |
| Interpreting and Translation | 43 | — |
| Electronic Health Records | 40 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site94%115 roles
- Not stated6%7 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 122 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 37 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Nurse Practitioner Or Physician 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.