Salaries · Advanced practice providers

What do APPs earn?

Three separate answers for your role and state — what employers advertise, what the federal wage survey measures, and what clinicians report themselves. We never average them together.

Role

A public page. Nothing here is personalized, and choosing a role or state saves nothing about you.

A nurse practitioner in Virginia

Three sources · never combined · every figure carries its date

Posted pay

Advertised

$130,000

Posted range
$104,000 – $162,000
Qualifying postings
9

Advertised pay is not actual earnings.

Health Center Careers job board · employer-published ranges

Federal wage data

BLS OEWS

$127,810

Occupation
SOC 29-1171
Data period
May 2025 OEWS

Not health-center specific: this covers every employer type in the state.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release (2025A01), state cross-industry estimates via BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/). · retrieved 2026-07-18

Clinician-reported

Reviewed

Not enough contributors yet

No reviewed group has reached 20 contributors for this role yet.

A group publishes at 20 distinct contributors, as a band rather than a single figure, so no one person is identifiable.

Reviewed clinician contributions · national, banded

Total package

Base pay is only half the FQHC offer. Loan repayment is tax-free and paid to your servicer, so it is worth more than the same amount of salary.

Base pay source

Service commitment

Base pay

$130,000

Yearly, from the posted source

Loan repayment

$37,500

A year, from a $75,000 two-year NHSC award. Tax-free.

Effective yearly value

$167,500

Base plus the yearly award. RSUs are not included.

Base
Loan

$130,000 base plus $37,500 of yearly loan repayment. RSUs are deliberately absent from this bar — they are national, self-reported and not added to pay.

Loan repayment, in detail

Program
NHSC Loan Repayment, FY2026
Initial commitment
Two years, full-time
Award
$75,000
Continuation
up to $35,000 a year
Tax
Tax-free, paid to the servicer

Award size follows your commitment and discipline, never the site's HPSA score — that score affects how likely funding is, not how much. A Spanish-proficiency enhancement can add $5,000 under HRSA's stated conditions.

Model this on the loan calculator

RSUs

No published RSU group

No published RSU group for this role yet.

RSU groups are national, publish at 20 contributors, and report vested value only.

Why three figures, and not one average

Averaging them would hide what makes each one useful. A single blended number would look more precise and mean less, so this page never produces one.

Posted pay

What employers are advertising right now.

A range in a listing is an opening offer, not a paycheck, and not every employer posts one.

Updated as jobs are collected

Federal wage data

What the occupation actually pays across a whole state.

Covers every employer type, not health centers, and runs about a year behind.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release (2025A01), state cross-industry estimates via BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/).

Clinician-reported

What people in the role say they are actually paid.

The smallest sample, national rather than per-state, and published only in bands.

Published per group, with its date

Compare

All four roles in Virginia, side by side.

RolePostedFederalReported
Nurse practitioner$130,0009 postings$127,810U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release (2025A01), state cross-industry estimates via BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/).Under 20 contributors
Physician assistantNot enough postings$135,940U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release (2025A01), state cross-industry estimates via BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/).Under 20 contributors
Nurse anesthetistNot enough postings$252,110U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 release (2025A01), state cross-industry estimates via BLS flat files (download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/).Under 20 contributors
Nurse midwifeNot enough postingsNo federal seriesUnder 20 contributors

These columns are three different sources, not one scale. Each carries its own sample and date, and they are never averaged.

Pay by state

Every state has its own page, with the same three sources and the same thresholds.

Posted figures are ranges employers published on this board; Health Center Careers does not set compensation, and advertised pay is not actual earnings. No figure on this page blends the three sources. Loan figures are FY2026 program amounts, not an award decision. Reported and RSU groups are self-reported values, banded, and are not a valuation or tax guidance.

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