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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.
Kajaba iku, ana uga sing nyebutake yen wangun iki bisa digawé saka setengah-setengah.
Taun-taun latihan, jam penuh. Jam setengah luwih suwe.
Bulan tina premi gaji diperlukeun pikeun nutupan biaya éta. Teu bulan dugi anjeun di sagigireun sacara umum - waktu latihan di luhur datang kahiji.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · tampilan
Apa sing dadi angka biaya, lan apa sing ora
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.
Apa ana wong kang duwe iki, lan apa ana wong kang kerja ing lapangan
Apa akeh sing entuk iki saben taun
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Ora ana sing bisa ngganti persentase iki. Ieu hiji aliran taunan - jalma anu meunangkeun kredensial dina hiji taun. Angka pakasaban nyaeta stock standing, saha nu gawé dina pakasaban dina hiji waktu. Bagian hiji aliran kana stock ngahasilkeun hiji angka nu maca kawas hiji laju pagawean jeung teu hiji. Dimana urang ngajaga hiji count standing tina pamegang kredensial urang ngapublikasi share digawé; di dieu urang teu boga hiji, jadi urang ngapublikasi aliran jeung eureun.
Apa sing kalebu ing hitungan: 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) · tampilan
Apa sing kedadeyan karo wong-wong sing rampung pelatihan
4 taun sawisé rampung, saka rekaman federal
Atau 177,214 wong kang rampung Registered nursing, bachelor's degree lan ora lagi sinau maneh papat taun sabanjure, 4,421 ez zuen irabazirik izan erregistroan — 2.5%. wong-wong sing kerjane entuk median saka $88,910, karo setengah tengah antara $67,853 lan $114,470.
"No earnings on record" teu "nganggur". Ukuran ieu nyaéta henteuna rékor gaji sareng pendapatan mandiri anu positif pikeun sataun. Teu aya anu ditanyakeun naha aranjeunna hoyong damel, janten jumlahna ngawengku jalma anu angkat tina tenaga kerja ku pilihan - ngaronjatkeun murangkalih, ngajaga, ngajalankeun, hirup dina pendapatan jalma sanés, pindah ka luar negeri - sareng sadayana anu hoyong damel sareng henteu ngagaduhan. Teu aya anu ngapublikasikan pecahna sareng urang moal nyaho. Anu ditetepkeun nyaéta sabaraha jalma anu réngsé latihan ieu sareng henteu kéngingkeun nanaon tina éta atanapi ti naon waé anu sanés dina opat taun, anu persis anu angka gaji di luhur henteu tiasa nyarios ka anjeun.
Apa kode program iku nglindhungi: 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.
Siapa ing kohort: completers kang nampa bantuan mahasiswa federal - kira-kira setengah saka mahasiswa AS, lan setengah liyane ora diukur ing kene. Wong sing pindhah kanggo sinau luwih iku ing salah siji kolom. Departemen nyegah institusi karo cohorts banget cilik kanggo publikasi lan nambah swara statistik kanggo sisa, supaya iki jumlah ing institusi cukup gedhe kanggo laporkan: 825 saka wong-wong mau, recovery 97.1% saka Departemen dhewe count nasional kanggo program iki. Nglebokaké program laporan paling cilik nglebokaké tingkat kanthi 0.0 poin persen.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · tampilan · angka anu sami pikeun unggal program urang tiasa ngapublikasikan
Apa sing bisa sampeyan lakoni
Gajina aya dina padamelan, lain dina kredensial. Ieu nyaéta padamelan anu anjeun tiasa lakukeun.
| Layanan | Diperlukan? | Median | Digunakaké |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Median pay and employment: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (dipunundhuh tanggal 20 Oktober 2015)
Apa iku mbayar dhewe?
Layanan iki nglebokake median saka $97,550. Median kerja-weighted ing saben profesi kita nerbitake iku $50,020, dadi premium kanggo ngadhepi iki iku bab $47,530 taun sadurunge pajak.
Baca éta minangka perbandingan ka rata-rata padamelan, henteu ka padamelan anjeun. Apa garis dasar iku, lan apa sing dipisahake
Nanging, dheweke ora bisa entuk kerja. Satiap payback angka dina situs ieu aya syarat dina digawé dina karya. Nu mangrupa asumsi nu credential-holder count di luhur aya pikeun nguji, sarta éta asumsi unggal payback situs séjén nyieun diam.
Apa sing sampeyan butuhake sadurunge miwiti
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Aja nindakake iki yen
- 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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