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Nurse Anesthetists pay in Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA and Jacksonville, FL
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Nurse Anesthetists is $203,250 per year in Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA. It is $416,000 per year in Jacksonville, FL. Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA is 51.1% below Jacksonville, FL on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1151 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 40 wage and salary jobs in Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA and 340 in Jacksonville, FL. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings