Your Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Salary (PNP Salary) can vary wildly even more so than other Nurse salary options depending upon a very few truly key factors, one of which you will discover as our top tip below. It is a tip that very few people realize will have an enormous impact on your   Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Salary now and for the entire rest of your career. How much of an impact could it have you may say? How about up to doubling your life time Nursing salary, is that big enough? Just imagine what that would do for your Nursing career!

Then, we will give you a bonus tip (of a specific career path) that you may never have considered that can have your specialized RN Salary all the way up to $150,000 per year or more. Those we will discuss below but first we will go into a typical RN Salary right out of nursing school and with a few years experience after graduating from your RN school.

Firstly we will give you what the national statistics say is the average Registered Nurse Salary in America but realize that data was published in 2008 – 2009 which means it was gathered (calculated) in 2007 so by our standards that’s pretty old data. But don’t worry we will also give you the most up to the minute data as well in just a second.

OUR PNP Salary data that we will give you is obtained by calling on ads and calling headhunters all over America and seeing what kind of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Salary is being offered for graduating which Nursing school and how much RN Salary for how many years on the job etc… In other words REAL data that truly represents the real world that you need to work in.

According to the Occupational Employment Statistics provided by the department of labor  the Registered Nurse Salary for the United States is $62,450 but is that reality today in this economy? We called on ads all over America to find out, here’s  what we found.

When applying for an RN Job by calling on ads all across the country including some headhunter agencies we found the national Pediatric specialty Nurse Practitioner Salary to come in at a high of $94,600 and a low of $41,200. Why such a huge disparity in income levels? What was the one key factor in whether you made the top salary or the bottom salary? It may not be what you think. Most would say that it had to be which Nursing school you graduated from. Others would say it has to be time on the job. Yes those are both large factors in your Nursing salary but they weren’t the biggest.

NOW for our top tip! The single biggest factor in determining your Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Salary now and for the rest of your life is the same as making money in restaurants or real estate it’s all about location, location, location! Did you know that you can in some cases double nearly double your income by just moving over one state? Yes it’s true. A few of the top states for any RN Salaries are Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Massachusetts and California. A couple more that are near the top are Nevada and Connecticut. Sorry but out of respect to the people who live and work in them we won’t list the states with the lowest pay a couple of which were pretty bad.

please be sure to understand; we do believe 100% you should graduate from the best Nursing school you can and that you will continue to earn more as you spend more time on your Nursing career. But for the single biggest raise in pay think geographically.

Now for another tip that you may not have thought of before. When checking  out Nursing career advancement and looking for the absolute top Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Salary in the county take a look at the career of Nurse Anesthetist. If you become one of these Nurses you will in many cases make more money than the Doctor working right beside you. We found quite a few job offerings in this nursing field offering over $150,000 with just a minimum of 2-4 years experience. That’s a very nice Registered Nurse Salary if you ask us. So, for the big bucks think geographically and think specialty it’s a winning combination.