Nurse Anesthetists salary

SOC 29-1151 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$236,590

per year, nationally

Middle half

$206,730–$294,350

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

51,840

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+8.6%

2,700 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$155,250$339,500

10th: $155,250
25th: $206,730
Median: $236,590
75th: $294,350
90th: $339,500

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Master's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where nurse anesthetists earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Alaska	$341,210	102.4	90	0.82×
2	New York	$321,030	107.9	2,450	0.76×
3	Massachusetts	$295,550	105.8	500	0.41×
4	California	$292,410	110.7	2,230	0.37×
5	New Jersey	$291,350	108.8	—	—
6	Illinois	$286,830	100.0	1,140	0.56×
7	Vermont	$283,060	98.0	40	0.40×
8	West Virginia	$278,530	89.5	740	3.18×
9	Montana	$277,380	94.6	—	—
10	New Hampshire	$275,980	104.2	490	2.15×
11	Washington	$274,390	107.0	760	0.64×
12	Wisconsin	$273,170	94.1	990	1.01×
13	Iowa	$273,070	87.8	380	0.74×
14	Oregon	$272,330	103.4	370	0.56×
15	Minnesota	$266,190	98.6	2,130	2.16×
16	South Carolina	$265,480	93.7	1,010	1.31×
17	South Dakota	$263,930	88.6	400	2.62×
18	Idaho	$263,130	95.5	—	—
19	Wyoming	$255,250	92.7	80	0.85×
20	Virginia	$252,110	101.1	700	0.51×
21	Arizona	$248,660	100.7	310	0.28×
22	Maine	$247,470	97.0	380	1.78×
23	Michigan	$247,010	96.2	2,300	1.57×
24	Nebraska	$246,730	90.1	430	1.26×
25	Texas	$244,990	97.1	4,060	0.86×
26	North Dakota	$244,240	89.0	250	1.73×
27	Missouri	$242,630	90.8	1,550	1.58×
28	Connecticut	$236,960	103.6	480	0.86×
29	Ohio	$231,810	92.8	2,300	1.24×
30	Georgia	$224,630	96.3	1,170	0.72×
31	North Carolina	$224,610	94.3	3,340	2.03×
32	Arkansas	$224,280	86.9	—	—
33	Maryland	$223,140	105.0	840	0.92×
34	Kentucky	$222,520	90.2	1,640	2.46×
35	Louisiana	$222,130	88.2	900	1.39×
36	Pennsylvania	$221,530	97.6	2,500	1.24×
37	Kansas	$212,090	90.1	910	1.90×
38	Tennessee	$211,450	91.9	1,690	1.55×
39	Florida	$210,570	103.4	4,600	1.39×
40	Mississippi	$198,410	87.0	480	1.23×
41	Alabama	$190,300	88.8	1,810	2.57×
42	Oklahoma	$156,830	87.8	990	1.75×
43	New Mexico	$129,370	92.2	—	—
44	Utah	$126,600	98.9	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where nurse anesthetists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for nurse anesthetists

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Jacksonville, FL	$416,000	99.5	340	1.34×
2	Springfield, MA	$357,740	96.1	—	—
3	Fayetteville, NC	$331,760	92.0	90	2.07×
4	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$321,030	112.6	2,310	0.73×
5	Peoria, IL	$310,930	91.2	100	1.75×
6	Columbia, MO	$310,170	89.4	90	2.44×
7	Hammond, LA	$304,640	84.5	40	2.60×
8	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$298,910	106.4	140	0.25×
9	Idaho Falls, ID	$298,560	94.4	—	—
10	Greensboro-High Point, NC	$297,560	92.9	100	0.84×
11	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$294,910	98.9	140	2.48×
12	Rochester, NY	$286,230	97.0	140	0.83×
13	Madison, WI	$283,980	97.3	150	1.13×
14	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$282,930	113.6	—	—
15	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$282,840	96.9	210	0.76×
16	Utica-Rome, NY	$282,380	92.7	30	0.77×
17	Charleston, WV	$280,250	88.7	220	6.52×
18	Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC	$279,570	93.6	40	0.76×
19	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$279,410	94.7	200	0.53×
20	Morgantown, WV	$278,530	93.3	200	8.82×
21	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$277,550	97.3	910	2.00×
22	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$275,310	98.6	680	0.62×
23	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$274,390	111.1	420	0.60×
24	Omaha, NE-IA	$271,680	91.9	230	1.36×
25	Columbia, SC	$271,350	93.7	210	1.58×
26	Wausau, WI	$269,790	92.7	70	3.02×
27	Appleton, WI	$269,690	92.4	—	—
28	Pocatello, ID	$268,710	88.9	50	3.76×
29	Baton Rouge, LA	$268,210	90.8	130	0.98×
30	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$265,880	103.6	840	0.56×
31	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	$264,420	88.4	190	4.11×
32	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$262,240	105.7	—	—
33	Duluth, MN-WI	$260,760	88.8	60	1.37×
34	Saginaw, MI	$259,950	90.9	70	2.62×
35	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$258,570	104.8	1,250	1.92×
36	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$257,650	100.3	130	1.50×
37	Portland-South Portland, ME	$256,620	101.9	190	1.97×
38	Grand Forks, ND-MN	$254,410	86.7	40	2.20×
39	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$250,570	95.0	100	1.35×
40	Toledo, OH	$248,100	91.5	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where nurse anesthetists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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