Dintiúir
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.
Cad a chosnaíonn sé a fháil — an leath lár an raon.
Míonna oiliúna, lánaimseartha. Páirt-am a thógann níos faide.
Míonna den phréimh pá a theastaíonn chun an costas sin a chlúdach, ní míonna go dtí go mbeidh tú chun tosaigh ar an iomlán – tagann an t-am oiliúna thuas ar dtús.
Foinse: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · amharc
Cad é an figiúr costais sin, agus cad nach bhfuil ann
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.
Cé mhéad duine a shealbhaíonn é seo, agus cé mhéad atá ag obair sa réimse
Cé mhéad duine a thuilleann é seo gach bliain
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Nílimid ag casadh sin isteach i céatadán. Is é seo an sreabhadh bliantúil — na daoine a thuill an creidiúnú i mbliain amháin. Tá figiúirí fostaíochta stoc seasta, gach duine ag obair sa ghairm ag an am céanna. Roinnt sreabhadh i stoc tháirgeann uimhir a léann cosúil le ráta fostaíochta agus nach bhfuil sé amháin. I gcás ina bhfuil muid ag comhaireamh seasta de shealbhóirí creidiúnaithe fhoilsiú againn an sciar fostaithe; anseo ní mór dúinn ceann, mar sin a fhoilsiú againn an sreabhadh agus stop.
Cad a chuimsíonn an comhaireamh sin: 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) · amharc
Cad a tharla do na daoine a chríochnaigh an oiliúint
Ceithre bliana tar éis a chríochnú, ó thaifid cónaidhme
De 177,214 daoine a chríochnaigh Registered nursing, bachelor's degree agus ní raibh siad ag staidéar a thuilleadh ceithre bliana ina dhiaidh sin, 4,421 ní raibh aon tuilleamh ar taifead aige ar chor ar bith — 2.5%. Thuill na cinn a bhí ag obair median de $88,910, leis an leath lár idir $67,853 agus $114,470.
Ní hionann “gan tuilleamh ar thaifead” agus “dífhostaithe”. Is é an tomhas ná nach raibh aon taifead pá agus aon ioncam dearfach féinfhostaíochta acu don bhliain ar fad. Níor cuireadh ceist ar aon duine an raibh siad ag iarraidh obair a dhéanamh, mar sin tá daoine a d’fhág an lucht oibre de rogha féin – ag tógáil leanaí, ag tabhairt aire, ag taisteal, ag maireachtáil ar ioncam duine eile, ag bogadh thar lear – sa chomhaireamh in éineacht le gach duine a d’iarr post agus nach raibh post acu. Ní fhoilsíonn aon duine an scoilt agus ní dhéanfaimid buille faoi thuairim air. Is é a bhunaíonn sé ná cé mhéad duine a chríochnaigh an oiliúint seo agus nach raibh aon rud á thuilleamh acu uaidh nó ó aon rud eile ceithre bliana ina dhiaidh sin, rud nach féidir leis an bhfigiúr pá thuas a insint duit.
Cad a chumhdaíonn an cód cláir sin: 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.
Cé atá sa chohórt: Tá an Roinn ag cur institiúidí a bhfuil cohóirteanna ró-bheag chun a fhoilsiú as an áireamh agus cuireann sí torann staitistiúil leis an gcuid eile, mar sin is suim é seo thar na hinstitiúidí atá mór go leor chun tuairisciú: 825 cuid acu, a ghnóthú 97.1% de chomhaireamh náisiúnta na Roinne féin don chlár seo. Ag titim na cláir tuairiscithe is lú bogann an ráta ag 0.0 pointí céatadáin.
Foinse: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · amharc · an figiúr céanna do gach clár is féidir linn a fhoilsiú
Cad a ligeann sé duit a dhéanamh
Baineann an pá leis an bpost, ní leis an gcreidiúnas, agus is iad seo na gairmeacha a gcáilíonn sé duit dóibh.
| Job | An bhfuil sé riachtanach? | Meán | Fostaithe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Pá agus fostaíocht mheánmhéide: Staitisticí Fostaíochta agus Pá Ceirde BLS, Bealtaine 2025.
An íocann sé as féin?
Íocann an post seo unlocks meánmhéid de $97,550. Is é an meánmhéid ualaithe fostaíochta i ngach slí bheatha a fhoilsímid ná $50,020, mar sin tá an préimh le haghaidh a shealbhú seo faoi $47,530 bliain roimh cháin.
Léigh go bhfuil comparáid le meán-phost, ní le do phost. Cad é an bonnlíne sin, agus cad a fhágann sé amach
Agus glacann sé leis go bhfaigheann tú an post. Tá gach figiúr aisíocaíochta ar an suíomh seo coinníollach ar a bheith fostaithe san obair. Is é sin an toimhde go bhfuil an comhaireamh sealbhóir creidiúna thuas ann chun tástáil a dhéanamh, agus is é an toimhde go ndéanann gach suíomh pá eile go ciúin.
Cad atá uait sula dtosaíonn tú
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Ná déan é seo má
- 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
Gach dintiúir, de réir tréimhse aisíocaíochta · Conas a ríomhtar é seo · Cuardaigh rud éigin eile