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2012 Salary Results by Specialty and Setting

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From pediatrics to surgery, acute care to urology and many specialties between, salaries and part-time earnings soared for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in 2012. This focused report of the 2012 National Salary Survey of NPs & PAs breaks down earnings based on specialty and geographic setting. Our survey found that both NPs and PAs in the mental health field outearned their colleagues, while those clinicians in education fell to the bottom of the salary scale.

Survey data collection for the 2013 National Salary Survey of NPs & PAs begins June 1 at http://nurse-practitioners-and-physician-assistants.advanceweb.com/. To ensure that your specialty and setting are accurately represented, please complete our survey and encourage your colleagues to do the same.

To view the complete specialty and geographic setting report, click the "Download Here" button below.

Lynda's comments suggest that she indeed is "fresh out of the box" I worked alongside 2 NP's that were Vietnam nurses early in my career and I can't tell you how much I learned from them. I was a Navy Corpsman for 5 years before becoming a PA and quite honestly felt very ignorant compared to them. Their knowledge and experience were remarkable.
They mentored me and I eventually became the supervisor of all the surgical NPs/Pas at our hospital.

Steve , PA-C, Hospital	May 16, 2013
Baltimore, MD

To Lynda PA-C: I have worked with excellent NPs and PAs. I was alarmed at your lack of respect for a time honored and proven NP profession. Hospital training does not prepare one for the real world of outpatient medicine, only for the end result of lack of preventative care.

Marie Hirsch, CRNP	May 15, 2013
Pittsburgh, PA

I cannot believe how one would get so upset over salary. Mid- level practitioners are there to provide exceptional care to their patients. I love working as internal medicine PA, I care deeply about my patients' well being. If one care so much about making money then one should have been a cardio thoracic or neurosurgeon, MD, not PA or NP. Not that surgeons don't care about their pts, they do but they also make a lot of money. I'm a preceptor for PAs and NPs and there is a frank difference between the two interns of their knowledge of medicine. I am so disappointed in the earlier commends made. The bottom line is: quality patient care.

Sharon, PA

Sharon Johnson , PA-C	May 13, 2013
West Palm Beach , FL

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