Salary for Nurse Practitioners

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These registered nurses receive additional graduate education which allows them to gain licensing and certification in order to prescribe medications and work independently of doctors and physicians, although many work in collaboration with these medical professionals. They treat common illnesses, diagnose and treat acute health problems and infections, recommend behavior modification to reduce the risk of illness or injury, and order diagnostic testing as necessary. Although not doctors, they are highly trained medical professionals.

A Nurse Practitioner will normally get salaries ranging from $82,960 and $156,160 depending on levels of tenure. will normally get average salaries of one hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars on a yearly basis.

have the highest average potential salary in California, where they can earn an average salary rate of approximately $145,970. Employees who work in this job make the greatest compensation in Wholesale Trade, where they earn job pay of $115,690.

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