The State of NP Hiring 2026
First published August 6, 2026 · Live figures as of September 24, 2026 · Free to quote with attribution: how to cite us
This report is built from one dataset we know completely: the active nurse practitioner postings on NP Hiring itself. That makes it precise about what it covers and silent about what it does not: it describes this board's inventory, not the national NP labor market. Where a figure's sample is too small to mean anything, we say so instead of printing it. National context, where shown, is cited to the federal and professional sources that actually publish it.
The board at a glance
A live count of this board's indexable inventory at the timestamp above, which is the population every figure below is computed from:
641
Active postings
105
Hiring organizations
44
States represented
Active postings by specialty
Active postings matching each clinical specialty on our taxonomy. A posting can match more than one specialty (and some match none), so rows are overlapping counts, not slices of a pie:
- Psychiatric Mental Health268
- Primary Care43
- Family Practice38
- Acute Care14
- Cardiology11
- Oncology8
- Pediatric7
- Women's Health5
9 further specialties have fewer than 5 matching postings each (18 combined) and are folded here rather than shown as one-posting rows.
Active postings by state
The 10 states with the most active postings:
- California57
- Illinois48
- Pennsylvania46
- Texas44
- Massachusetts33
- New York33
- Virginia32
- New Jersey19
- Ohio17
- Georgia16
The remaining 189 active postings are spread across 34 further states. Per-state detail is on the salary guide and the state job pages.
Where the work happens
Of 641 active postings, the share flagged for each work mode (hybrid counts exclude postings already flagged remote):
19%
Remote
119 postings
35%
Hybrid
222 postings
47%
On-site
300 postings
New-grad openness
0% of active postings (1 of 641) are flagged open to new graduates, meaning either an explicit zero-experience requirement or an employer's "new grads welcome" flag. Browse them under new-grad roles.
Advertised pay
What employers advertise, from postings that state a real pay range. Figures our pipeline estimated are excluded, and a state publishes only with at least 5 salaried postings from at least 3 distinct employers (the same gates as our salary benchmark tool). These are advertised ranges on this board, not a wage survey.
| Scope | Median | p25 | p75 | Postings | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | $153,920 | $130,000 | $185,529 | 307 | 39 |
| California | $180,788 | $150,000 | $225,000 | 49 | 11 |
| Colorado | $157,040 | $134,160 | $210,000 | 8 | 6 |
| Florida | $117,500 | $117,500 | $117,500 | 8 | 3 |
| Georgia | $150,000 | $130,000 | $150,000 | 11 | 4 |
| Illinois | $140,000 | $140,000 | $142,500 | 12 | 5 |
| Maryland | $137,800 | $130,000 | $172,000 | 6 | 4 |
| Massachusetts | $159,603 | $144,175 | $193,440 | 30 | 5 |
| New Jersey | $165,000 | $160,000 | $165,000 | 14 | 4 |
| New York | $150,000 | $140,000 | $165,500 | 18 | 6 |
| North Carolina | $142,935 | $126,000 | $171,600 | 12 | 5 |
| Ohio | $250,000 | $126,000 | $250,000 | 15 | 4 |
| Oklahoma | $127,500 | $120,000 | $130,000 | 9 | 4 |
| Texas | $141,200 | $75,000 | $175,000 | 13 | 3 |
| Virginia | $156,750 | $126,000 | $158,500 | 30 | 6 |
| Washington | $241,500 | $155,000 | $241,500 | 10 | 4 |
How many postings disclose pay at all, and how we hold ourselves to that number, is its own report: pay transparency on NP Hiring.
National context, cited
For scale beyond this board, the figures we republish come from the sources below. We do not survey, model, or adjust them, and each is quoted with its vintage:
| Figure | Value | Primary source | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median NP salary, United States | $129,210 | BLS OEWS, Nurse Practitioners (29-1171), median annual wage, May 2024 | 2024-05 |
| Projected NP employment growth | 40% | BLS Employment Projections, Nurse Practitioners (2024 to 2034) | 2025-09 |
| Full Practice Authority jurisdictions | 27 states + DC | AANP State Practice Environment | 2025 |
Methodology, and what this report is not
- Basis. Every live figure is computed from NP Hiring's own active postings at the "as of" timestamp shown in the header, counted with the same published, unexpired, not-repeatedly-dead-linked filter our sitemaps use. Nothing is sampled, imputed, or carried over from a previous run.
- This is not a national census. It describes one job board's inventory. Postings that were never listed here are invisible to it, and employers who list many roles here weigh more than those who do not.
- Not a wage survey. Pay figures are midpoints of employer-advertised ranges, which skew toward employers willing to advertise pay at all. Pipeline-estimated figures are excluded entirely.
- Sample gates. Percentages publish only over at least 100 postings; a distribution row shows individually only with at least 5 postings; pay rows require at least 5 salaried postings from at least 3 distinct employers. Below a gate, the section says "sample too small"; it never renders a padded number.
- National context is republished, not produced. Those figures come from the cited federal and professional sources, with their vintages shown, via the same audited source file every page of this site quotes from.
- Editions. This is the 2026 edition. Future editions will be published as new pages so that citations of this one keep meaning what they meant.
How our pages are produced and corrected is on the editorial policy; citation format and custom cuts are on the press & data room. Questions about a figure: press@nphiring.com.