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Full-time nurses in California have the highest annual average salaries of nurses in all 50 states, averaging $106,000 per year, according to a survey conducted by ADVANCE Healthcare Network.
The survey includes responses from more than 22,000 nurses at every level and focused on specialization, location, education and benefits.
Here's how the 50 states ranked in annual average salaries for full-time nurses, according to the survey:
- California: $106,865
- Oregon: $104,844
- Nevada: $104,167
- Arizona: $102,348
- Utah: $101,905
- Hawaii: $101,786
- South Dakota: $100,000
- New York: $98,869
- Massachusetts: $98,596
- Minnesota: $97,143
- Colorado: $95,357
- Connecticut: $95,062
- Maryland: $94,585
- Delaware: $93,800
- Wisconsin: $92,264
- Missouri: $91,667
- Washington: $91,061
- Alaska: $90,556
- Mississippi: $90,541
- New Jersey: $89,298
- Illinois: $89,073
- New Hampshire: $88,955
- Rhode Island: $88,929
- Louisiana: $88,267
- Wyoming: $87,037
- Texas: $86,250
- Oklahoma: $86,000
- Idaho: $85,200
- Virginia: $85,000
- Tennessee: $84,085
- Indiana: $83,968
- Vermont: $83,810
- Georgia: $83,520
- New Mexico: $82,987
- Pennsylvania: $81,623
- Maine: $80,800
- Arkansas: $78,205
- North Dakota: $77,273
- South Carolina: $77,006
- Kentucky: $76,833
- Florida: $76,253
- Michigan: $76,161
- North Carolina: $73,858
- Alabama: $73,510
- Montana: $71,864
- Ohio: $69,556
- Kansas: $68,621
- Nebraska: $67,907
- Iowa: $66,238
- West Virginia: $63,416