Kredi
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.
Ki sa li koute pou jwenn — mwatye mitan nan seri a.
Yon mwa de fòmasyon, tan plen. Tan pati pran plis tan.
Mois de la prime de salè ki nesesè pou kouvri sa koute. Pa mwa jiskaske ou se devan an jeneral — tan an nan fòmasyon anwo a vini premye.
Fonksyon: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · View
Ki sa sa a se yon valè, ak sa li pa se
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.
Ki kantite moun ki gen sak ki kantite moun ki travay nan jaden an
Ki kantite moun ki resevwa sa chak ane
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Nou pa pral fè sa tounen yon pousan. Sa a se yon flux ane a - moun ki te resevwa kredatif nan yon ane. Figi travay yo se yon stock ki chita, tout moun ki travay nan travay la nan yon moman. Divizyon an nan yon flux nan yon stock pwodwi yon nimewo ki li tankou yon pousantaj kontra ak se pa yon sèl. Lè nou kenbe yon kont ki chita de detentè kredatif nou pibliye pati ki te travay; isit la nou pa gen yon, se konsa nou pibliye flux la ak sispann.
Ki sa ki gen ladan kont la: 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) · View
Ki sa ki te rive moun ki te fin antrene a?
Kat ane apre li fin fini, nan dosye federal
Of 177,214 moun ki te fin Registered nursing, bachelor's degree epi yo pa t ap aprann ankò 4 ane pita, 4,421 pa t gen okenn revni sou dosye a nan tout — 2.5%. Sa yo ki te travay te resevwa yon mwayèn de $88,910, ak mwatye mitan ant $67,853 ak $114,470.
“Pa gen okenn revni nan dosye” pa vle di “pa gen travay”. Se yon mezi ki montre pa gen okenn dosye sou salè ak okenn revni ki soti nan travay pou tèt ou pou ane a tout antye. Pa gen moun ki te mande si yo te vle travay, se poutèt sa kont la gen moun ki te kite fòs travay la pa chwa yo — pou yo te ka grandi pitit, pou yo te ka pran swen, pou yo te ka vwayaje, pou yo te ka viv sou revni yon lòt moun, pou yo te ka deplase aletranje — ansanm ak tout moun ki te vle travay men pa t gen okenn travay. Pa gen moun ki pibliye kantite sa a e nou pa pral fè yon deduksyon. Sa li montre se kantite moun ki te fini fòmasyon sa a epi ki pa t ap touche anyen de sa ni de nenpòt lòt bagay pandan kat ane, sa se egzakteman sa kantite salè ki anwo a pa ka di w.
Ki sa kòd pwogram lan kouvri: 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.
Ki moun ki nan gwoup la: Moun ki te ale sou pou etidye plis yo pa nan nenpòt nan kolòn yo. Depatman an supprime inivèsite ak cohorts twò ti pou pibliye ak ajoute bri statistique a rès la, se konsa sa a se yon kantite lajan sou inivèsite gwo ase pou rapòte: 825 100 nan yo, rekiperasyon 97.1% nan kont nasyonal Depatman an pou pwogram sa a. Dropping pi piti pwogram rapòte deplase pousantaj la pa 0.0 pousan pwen.
Fonksyon: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · View · menm chif la pou chak pwogram nou ka pibliye
Ki sa li pèmèt ou fè
Salè a gen rapò ak travay la, pa ak lisans lan. Sa yo se travay li bay ou dwa pou yo.
| Job | Èske li nesesè? | Median | Travayè |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Sit ofisyèl (an angle) Sit ofisyèl (an franse) Sit ofisyèl (an angle) BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Èske li peye pou li?
Travay sa a deblotché peye yon mwayèn de $97,550. Median emploi-pondérée nan tout travay nou pibliye se $50,020, Se konsa, prim pou kenbe sa a se sou $47,530 yon ane anvan taks.
Li sa a kòm yon konparasyon ak yon travay mwayèn, pa nan travay ou. Ki sa ki se bazline a, ak sa li pa gen ladan
Li pa t' gen okenn travay. Tout figi ranbousman sou sit sa a se kondisyonèl sou yo dwe anboche nan travay la. Sa a se supposition a kredatif-posede kont la anwo egziste pou teste, epi li se supposition a chak lòt sit peye fè san yo pa di anyen.
Ki sa ou bezwen anvan ou kòmanse
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Pa fè sa si
- 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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