Registered Nurses
St. Louis, MO-IL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 35,200.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of registered nurses in St. Louis earn more.
$83,180 in St. Louis buys what $87,500 buys across the country as a whole.
St. Louis's regional price parity is 95.1 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in Missouri
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. St. Louis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson City | $85,010 | $96,600 | 88.0 | +10.5% |
| Columbia | $84,330 | $94,300 | 89.4 | +7.8% |
| St. Louis This page | $83,180 | $87,500 | 95.1 | — |
| Kansas City | $83,040 | $89,700 | 92.5 | +2.6% |
| Cape Girardeau | $82,640 | $96,000 | 86.1 | +9.8% |
| Springfield | $79,370 | $89,600 | 88.6 | +2.4% |
| St. Joseph | $77,240 | $89,400 | 86.4 | +2.2% |
| Joplin | $74,930 | $87,400 | 85.7 | −0.1% |
Price parity and difference against St. Louis are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 14.2% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it fell 3.9% — prices rose faster than pay since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
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
- 35,200 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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