Registered Nurses
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area. Estimated employment 64,240.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of registered nurses in Boston earn more.
$106,180 in Boston buys what $98,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Boston's regional price parity is 108.3 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Massachusetts
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Boston |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston This page | $106,180 | $98,100 | 108.3 | — |
| Pittsfield | $104,950 | $110,400 | 95.1 | +12.5% |
| Barnstable Town | $103,380 | $105,100 | 98.4 | +7.2% |
| Amherst Town | $101,270 | $101,000 | 100.2 | +3.0% |
| Worcester | $100,240 | $97,800 | 102.5 | −0.3% |
| Springfield | $98,410 | $102,400 | 96.1 | +4.5% |
Price parity and difference against Boston are in the full table on wider screens.
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.
- Employment
- 64,240 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 29-1141, Registered Nurses. Mapped to our taxonomy as registered-nurses.
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