Registered Nurses
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 15,180.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 29-1141
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
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$99,880 · 50th
$77,41010th
$82,91025th
$99,88050th
$109,43075th
$135,24090th
That is the median — half of registered nurses in Providence earn more.
Table 1 — Adjusted
$99,880 in Providence buys what $98,100 buys across the country as a whole.
Providence's regional price parity is 101.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
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.
- Employment
- 15,180 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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