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Registered nurse licence (RN)
The licence you cannot work as a registered nurse without. Two routes lead to the same exam and the same licence — a two-year associate degree or a four-year bachelor's — and they cost very different amounts.
Wat dit kos om π die middel helfte van die omvang te kry.
Maande van opleiding, voltyds.'n Ruk neem langer.
Maande van die betaling wat nodig is om daardie koste te dek.'n Paar maande voordat jy oor die algemeen takies voltooi het, kom die opleidingstyd hierbo eerste.
Bron: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Bekyk
Wat daardie prysprys is, en wat dit nie is nie
The low end is the 25th percentile across institutions offering the two-year associate route; the high end is the 75th percentile across institutions offering the four-year bachelor's. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Two years full time for the associate route, four for the bachelor's. Both end at the same NCLEX-RN exam and the same licence, and employers increasingly prefer the bachelor's — which is the reason the cheaper route is not automatically the better one.
The licence renews every one to three years depending on the state, with continuing-education requirements attached.
Hoe baie mense dit hou, en hoeveel werk in die veld
Hoeveel verdien dit elke jaar
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Ons verander dit nie in'n persentasie nie. Dit is'n jaarlikse stroom UNHCR die mense wat die kern in een jaar verdien het. Werksfigure is'n gevestigde voorraad, almal wat op een slag in die besetting werk.'n Uitvloeiing van'n voorraad bring'n aantal mense voort wat soos'n huurkoers lees en nie een is nie.'n Lang aantal kriminale houers wat ons publiseer, word hier uitgegee; ons het nie een nie, en ons publiseer dus die stroom en hou op.
Wat daardie getal insluit: Everyone who passed the NCLEX-RN for US licensure during 2025 — first-time and repeat, US-educated and internationally educated. 328,443 people sat it and 226,946 passed, a 69.1% pass rate. A candidate can pass only once, so this is close to a count of nurses becoming licensable in that year. It excludes candidates sitting the exam for Canadian registration, whom NCSBN reports separately, and it is not a count of anyone holding a licence today.
NCSBN also publishes a count of active RN LICENCES — 6,062,790 as at 24 July 2026 — and we deliberately do not use it. That is licences, not nurses: a nurse holding single-state licences in four states appears four times, and NCSBN publishes no de-duplicated figure. Dividing employment into it would produce a share of about 56% that understates how many licensed nurses are working, so we publish the exam flow instead and no percentage at all.
NCSBN, 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics, Research Brief vol. 96 (June 2026), Table 1 (People newly credentialed during one year) · Bekyk
Wat gebeur het met die mense wat die opleiding voltooi het
Vier jaar nadat dit voltooi is, uit federale verslae
van 177,214 voltooide Registered nursing, bachelor's degree en vier jaar later nie meer studeer nie, 4,421 geen verdienste op rekord op alle &madash; 2.5%. Die werkers het 'n media-en verdien $88,910, met die middelste helfte tussen $67,853 en $114,470.
← Geen inkomste op rekord ooit is ooit ooit tevore ooit ooit tevore nie. Die maatreël is die afwesigheid van enige loonrekord en enige positiewe self-opvoering inkomste vir die hele jaar. Niemand is gevra of hulle werk wou hê nie, en die telling hou dus mense wat die arbeidsmag verlaat het deur kinders groot te maak, om te versorg, te reis, op iemand anders se inkomste te woon, om in 'n ander se inkomste te trek saam met almal wat 'n werk wou hê en nie een gehad het nie. Niemand publiseer die skeiding en ons sal nie raai nie. Wat wel bepaal hoeveel mense hierdie opleiding en niks verdien het van enigiets wat jy nie, is presies te betaal nie.
Wat daardie programkode dek: CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay.
This is the four-year bachelor's route. The two-year associate route is a separate federal row and comes out at 3.0% not working, against 2.5% here — the cheaper route does slightly worse on this measure, and both are among the best outcomes published.
Wie is in die troepe: Vlergaars wat federale studentehulp gekry het ooit ongeveer die helfte van VSA ondergraduate, en die ander helfte word nie hier gemeet nie. Mense wat verder studeer, is in nie kolom nie. Die Departement onderdruk instellings met spane te klein om te publiseer en voeg statistiese geraas by die res, en daarom is dit'n som oor die instellings groot genoeg om te rapporteer: 825 van hulle, herstel 97.1% van die Departement se eie nasionale telling vir hierdie program. Die kleinste verslaggewingsprogramme word die tempo verlaag deur 0.0 persentasiepunte.
Bron: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Bekyk · dieselfde figuur vir elke program wat ons kan publiseer
Wat dit jou toelaat om te doen
Die betaling behoort aan die werk, nie aan die kern nie.
| Job | Is dit nodig? | MediaanName | Werk tans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurses | Legally required to hold the job | $97,550 | 3,379,720 |
| Nurse Practitioners Requires an active RN licence plus a master's or doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $132,300 | 323,040 |
| Nurse Anesthetists Requires an active RN licence, critical-care experience and a doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $236,590 | 51,840 |
| Nurse Midwives Requires an active RN licence plus a graduate midwifery programme. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $134,040 | 7,920 |
Mediaanse betaling en werk: BLS - werksgeleenthede en Wage Statistics, Mei 2025.
Betaal dit vir homself?
Die werk wat hierdie ontsluit, betaal 'n media $97,550. Die werk-gewig media regoor elke beroep wat ons publiseer is $50,020, so die premies vir die hou van hierdie is oor $47,530 ' n jaar voor belasting.
Lees dit as'n vergelyking met'n gemiddelde werk, nie met jou werk nie. Wat daardie basislyn is, en wat dit agterlaat
En dit neem jou die werk aan. Elke betaalback figuur op hierdie terrein is voorwaardelik op die in diens gehuur word. Dit is die aanname die kriminaal-houertelling hierbo bestaan om te toets, en dit is die veronderstelling dat elke ander salarisplek stilswyend is.
Wat jy nodig het voordat jy begin
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Doen dit nie as
- you cannot pass a criminal background check, which every board requires
- you are not prepared to work nights, weekends and holidays for years
- you cannot physically lift, turn and move adult patients
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