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Nurse Practitioners pay in Alaska and California
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Nurse Practitioners is $155,170 per year in Alaska. It is $168,520 per year in California. Alaska is 7.9% below California on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1171 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 710 wage and salary jobs in Alaska and 25,120 in California. 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