2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Registered Nurses

Walla Walla, WA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 810.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 29-1141
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$116,970 · 50th
$85,23010th
$95,25025th
$116,97050th
$124,67075th
$147,87090th

That is the medianhalf of registered nurses in Walla Walla earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$116,970 in Walla Walla buys what $118,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Walla Walla's regional price parity is 98.5 — 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.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Washington

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Walla Walla
Seattle$128,260$115,400111.1−2.8%
Olympia$125,020$120,600103.7+1.6%
Walla Walla This page$116,970$118,70098.5
Wenatchee$112,280$108,100103.9−8.9%
Spokane$111,750$111,400100.3−6.2%
Bremerton$107,220$101,500105.6−14.5%
Mount Vernon$106,730$104,200102.4−12.2%
Kennewick$106,410$106,300100.1−10.4%

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

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
810 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.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.