Kredentziak
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.
Erdialdekoa:
Hilabeteak entrenatzen, denbora osoan, eta denbora partzialean gehiago.
Kostu hori estali ahal izateko ordaindu beharreko hilabeteak. Ez hilabeteak, orokorrean aurreratu arte — goiko prestakuntza-denbora lehenago dator.
Iturburua: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · ikuspegia
Zer den kostu-zenbaki hori, eta zer ez den
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.
Zenbat pertsonak daukate hau, eta zenbat ari dira lanean eremuan?
Zenbat irabazten dute urtero?
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Ez dugu ehuneko bat bihurtzen. Hau urteko fluxua da - urte batean kredentziala lortu duten pertsonak. Enplegu-zifrak stock iraunkorra dira, lanpostuan aldi berean lan egiten duten guztiak. Fluxu bat stock batean zatitzean kontratazio-tasa bezala irakurtzen den zenbaki bat sortzen da, eta ez da bat. Kredentzien edukitzaileen zenbaketa iraunkorra egiten dugunean, enplegu-kuota argitaratzen dugu; hemen ez dugu bat, beraz fluxua argitaratzen dugu eta gelditzen gara.
Zenbat zenbatzen duen: 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) · ikuspegia
Zer gertatu zitzaien entrenamendua bukatu zutenei?
Lau urte geroago, erregistro federaletatik
Edo 177,214 amaitu zuten pertsonak Registered nursing, bachelor's degree eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ikasten, 4,421 ez zuen inolako diru-sarrerarik erregistratu — 2.5%. Lan egiten zutenek 1.000 euroko batez bestekoa irabazten zuten. $88,910, erdiko erdia artean $67,853 eta $114,470.
"Ez dago dirurik" ez da "lanposturik ez" esan nahi. Neurria urte osoan soldata-erregistrorik ez izatea da, ezta lan-eginkizunen bidezko diru-sarrera positiborik ere. Inork ez zuen galdetu lan egin nahi ote zuen, beraz, zenbaketak barne hartzen ditu lan-merkatutik alde egin zuten pertsonak —umeak hazi, zainketa lanak egin, bidaiatu, besteren diru-sarreraz bizi, atzerrira joan— eta lan egin nahi zuten eta lan bat ez zuten guztiak. Inork ez du banaketa argitaratzen, eta ez dugu asmatuko. Egiaztatzen duena da zenbat pertsonak amaitu zuten prestakuntza eta lau urte geroago ez zuten ezer irabazten, ez lanetik ez beste ezeretatik, eta hori da goiko soldata-zifrak ezin dizuna esan.
Programa-kode horrek zer hartzen duen barne: 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.
Nor dago koadroan: federal student aid received— roughly half of US undergraduates, and the other half is not measured here. Who went on to further study are not in either column. Department suppresses institutions with cohorts too small to publish and adds statistical noise to the remaining, so this is a sum over institutions sufficiently large to report: 825 haietako bat, berreskuratzen ari dena 97.1% Departamentuaren kontu nazionalaren zati bat programa honetarako. Txostenak emateko programa txikienak botatzeak tasa mugitzen du 0.0 ehuneko puntuak.
Iturburua: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · ikuspegia · zenbaki bera argitara dezakegun programa guztietarako.
Zer egin dezakezu
Soldata lanari dagokio, ez ziurtagiriari.
| Lan-zerrenda | Beharrezkoa da? | Mediana | Enplegatuta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
2015eko urtarrilaren 1ean: Enplegu eta Gizarte Politiketako sailburua, 2015eko maiatzaren 20an.
Bere burua ordaintzen du?
Honek desblokeatzen duen lanak honako honen mediana ordaintzen du: $97,550. Argitaratzen dugun lan-jarduera guztietako enplegu-pisua mediana hau da: $50,020, Beraz, hau mantentzearen prezioa 1000 dolarretan dago. $47,530 zergak ordaindu aurretik.
Irakurri hori lan arrunt batekin konparazio gisa, ez zure lanarekin. Zer den oinarri-lerro hori, eta zer uzten duen kanpoan
Eta lana lortuko duzula suposatzen du. Gune honetan ordaindu beharreko zenbateko bakoitza lanerako kontratatzearen baldintzapean dago. Hau da goiko kredentzial-jabe kopurua probatzeko sortu den suposaketa, eta beste ordainketa gune guztiek isilpean egiten duten suposaketa da.
Zer behar duzu hasi aurretik
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Ez egin hau
- 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
Kredentzial guztiak, itzulketa-epearen arabera · Nola kalkulatzen den · Beste zerbait bilatu