Xisaab-celinta
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.
Waa maxay qiimaha uu leeyahay in la helo — badhtamaha qaybta.
Bilood tababarka, waqti buuxa. Waqtiga qaybta ka qaadataa waqti dheer.
Bilood ee mushaharka premium loo baahan yahay in ay ka buuxaan qiimahaas. Ma bilood ilaa aad ka hor inta kale — waqtiga tababarka kor ku xusan waa in hore.
Qoraalka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · aragti
Waa maxay in qiimaha sawirka waa, iyo waxa ay tahay
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.
Tirada dadka haystaan, iyo inta badan oo ka shaqeeyaan ee dhulka
Tirada dadka ku kasbadaa sanad kasta
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Waxaana aan ka dhigi in boqolkiiba. Tani waa qulqulka sanadlaha ah — dadka ku kasbaday aqoonsiga sanad. Shaqooyinka tirada waa saamiga taagan, qof kasta oo ka shaqeeya shaqada waqti isku mid ah. kala qaybinta qulqulka in saamiga soo saartaa tirada oo akhriya sida qiimaha shaqo la’aanta ah oo ma aha mid. Halka aan hayno tirada taagan ee haysta aqoonsiga waxaan daabacnaa qaybta loo shaqeeyay; halkan waxaan u lahayn mid, sidaas darteed waxaan daabacnaa qulqulka iyo joojinta.
Waxa tiradaas ku jira: 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) · aragti
Maxaa ka dhacay dadka oo dhammeeyey tababarka
Afar sano ka dib markii dhamaystirka, ka diiwaanka federaalka
Ama 177,214 dadka oo dhammeeyey Registered nursing, bachelor's degree iyo ma ay wax ka baran afar sano ka dib, 4,421 ma laha wax mushahar ah oo ku saabsan diiwaanka oo dhan — 2.5%. Kuwa ahaa kuwa shaqeeyay ku kasbaday dhexdhexaad ah oo $88,910, la badhtamaha badhtamaha u dhexeeya $67,853 iyo $114,470.
"Ma jiro wax soo saarka ku qoran" ma aha "ka shaqayn". Miisaanka waa aan jirin wax diiwaanka mushaarka iyo wax kasta oo wanaagsan oo shaqo-abuurka mushaarka sanadka oo dhan. Qofna ma la weydiiyay haddii ay doonayaan shaqo, sidaas daraaddeed tirada dadka ka tagay shaqaalaha by doorasho - koritaanka carruurta, daryeel, safarka, ku nool qof kale oo mushaarka, ka tagay dibadda - la mid ah qof kasta oo doonayay shaqo oo aan lahayn. qofna ma daabaco kala qaybinta oo aan ka yaabay. waxa ay samayso waa in ay soo saaraan in dadka badan oo tababarkan dhamaystay oo ay waxba ka soo bixin ama wax kale afar sano ka dib, taas oo ah si dhab ah waxa mushaarka figure kor ku qoran ma kuu sheegi karo.
Waxa code-ka barnaamijkaas ku saabsan: 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.
Cidda waa in cohort: completers oo helay deeq waxbarasho federal ah - in ka badan badh ardayda dhigata USA, iyo badhka kale ma la xisaabtamo halkan. Dadka oo u tegey in ay wax ka bartaan dheeraad ah ayaa ku jira mid kasta oo tiirka. Wasaaradda hoos u haysta hay'adaha la cohorts aad u yar oo ay daabacaan iyo ku daray codka tirakoobka in ay naafada ah, sidaas darteed tani waa lacag ka badan hay'adaha ku filan oo weyn in ay warbixin: 825 ka mid ah, soo kabashada 97.1% ee Wasaaradda ee xisaabta qaranka ee barnaamijkan. Ka qaadista barnaamijyada warbixinta ugu yar ee dhaqdhaqaaqa qiimaha by 0.0 dhibcood boqolkiiba.
Qoraalka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · aragti · tirada la mid ah ee barnaamij kasta oo aan ku daabacan karno
Waxa ay kuu ogolaanaysaa inaad sameyso
Lacagta ku saabsan shaqada, ma aha in aqoonsiga. Kuwaas waa shaqooyinka ay ku siinaysaa aad u.
| Shaqada | Ma loo baahan yahay? | Dhexdhexaad | Shaqaale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Lacagta dhexdhexaadka ah iyo shaqada: BLS Shaqada Shaqada iyo Tirakoobka Lacagta, May 2025.
Ma u bixisaa naftiisa?
Shaqada this furaysaa bixisaa mid ka mid ah $97,550. The shaqo-ku-dhiigsan midabka ka dhex shaqooyinka oo dhan aan daabacno waa $50,020, sidaas daraaddeed lacagta la siiyo si ay u qabtaan waxaa ku saabsan $47,530 sanad ka hor xisaabaadka.
Akhri in sida isbarbardhigga shaqo caadi ah, ma aha shaqadaada. Waa maxay in line baseline ah, iyo waxa ay ka tagto
Oo waxay u maleynayaan inaad shaqo hesho. Fiiri kasta oo lacagta dib u eegis ah ee goobtan waa shuruud ku ah in la siiyo shaqada. Taasi waa qiyaasta in la xisaabiyo aqoonsiga-qaadashada kor ku xusan ka jira in la tijaabiyo, iyo waa qiyaasta in kasta oo kale oo lacag ah goobta ka dhigi doonaa si qaylo leh.
Waxa aad u baahan tahay ka hor inta aadan bilaabin
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Ha samayn haddii
- 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
Dhammaan aqoonsiga, by waqti payback · Sidaan loo xisaabiyey · Ka eeg wax kale