Registered Nurses Labor Cost in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
In the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area (an OEWS metropolitan statistical area, not municipal city limits), the median hourly wage for Registered Nurses (SOC 29-1141) was $57.56 in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS); the middle half of workers earned between $49.99 and $64.05 an hour.
Wage snapshot
OFFICIAL · BLS OEWSLow · P25
$49.99
Hourly
Typical · Median
$57.56
Primary planning wage
High · P75
$64.05
Hourly
Calculator
Adjust schedule assumptions. Wage percentiles stay OFFICIAL; annual outputs are DERIVED from your USER_INPUT.
Estimated annual team wage cost · DERIVED
$119,725
Wages only — benefits and payroll taxes are excluded.
Based on median BLS hourly wage $57.56 · schedule defaults 1 × 40 × 52
Low (P25)
$49.99
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Typical (Median)
$57.56
Annual / worker: $119,725
Team total shown above
High (P75)
$64.05
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Official data summary
- OEWS geography
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- Geography type
- metro · area 0035620
- Occupation
- Registered Nurses (29-1141)
- Data year
- 2025
- Employment (OFFICIAL)
- 197,740
- Wage value class
- OFFICIAL
| UI label | OEWS basis | Hourly (OFFICIAL) | Annual OEWS (OFFICIAL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low | P25 | $49.99 | $103,970 |
| Typical | Median | $57.56 | $119,720 |
| High | P75 | $64.05 | $133,230 |
Annual values are not interchangeable
- OEWS annual median (OFFICIAL):$119,720 — published by BLS for this occupation and area.
- Schedule-derived annual typical (DERIVED):$119,725 —
hourly median × 40 × 52from USER_INPUT schedule defaults. Do not treat this as a replacement for the OEWS annual median.
How this estimate is calculated
DERIVED- Low / Typical / High map to OEWS hourlyP25 / Median / P75(OFFICIAL). This is a transparent percentile mapping, not a confidence interval.
- Calculator annual figures are DERIVED:
hourly × hours/week × weeks/year, then × headcount for team cost. - Hours/week, weeks/year, and headcount are USER_INPUT(defaults 40 × 52 × 1).
- OEWS wages exclude overtime, shift differentials, nonproduction bonuses, and employer benefit costs. Self-employed workers are excluded.
Data source
OFFICIAL- Publisher
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Dataset
- OEWS
- Occupation / SOC
- Registered Nurses / 29-1141
- Geography
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
- Data year
- 2025
- Reference period
- May 2025
- Source URL
- https://www.bls.gov/oes/ (oesm25ma.zip bulk (MSA_M2025_dl.xlsx))
- Verification / retrieval
- 2026-09-23T05:36:04Z
- Content hash / version
cc3e6fa80edf64ab· oews-bulk-cc3e6fa80edf- Data version
oews-may-2025