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Nursing Assistants

Flagstaff, AZ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 500.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 31-1131
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$44,580 · 50th
$37,90010th
$43,20025th
$44,58050th
$46,64075th
$58,78090th

That is the medianhalf of nursing assistants in Flagstaff earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$44,580 in Flagstaff buys what $44,400 buys across the country as a whole.

Flagstaff's regional price parity is 100.3 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Arizona

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Flagstaff
Phoenix$45,290$43,800103.3−1.3%
Prescott Valley$45,180$46,00098.3+3.5%
Flagstaff This page$44,580$44,400100.3
Lake Havasu City$43,140$45,80094.1+3.2%
Tucson$42,560$43,90096.9−1.2%
Sierra Vista$39,260$44,00089.2−1.0%
Yuma$37,860$40,80092.7−8.1%

Price parity and difference against Flagstaff are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 20.2% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — nursing assistants in Flagstaff earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
500 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 31-1131, Nursing Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as nursing-assistants.

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