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Registered Nurses pay in New Haven, CT and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Registered Nurses is $104,490 per year in New Haven, CT. It is $216,740 per year in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. New Haven, CT is 51.8% below San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1141 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 10,050 wage and salary jobs in New Haven, CT and 22,930 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. 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