State comparison · 2025
Nurse Practitioners salary: Kansas vs New Jersey
Nurse Practitioners in New Jersey earn a median of $159,310. In Kansas, $126,650. After cost-of-living, the gap is 4% — not 20.5%.
Nominal pay gap
-20.5%
Kansas vs New Jersey
COL-adjusted gap
-4%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Kansas
Nurse Practitioners
- Median
- $126,650
- p25
- $108,460
- p75
- $133,940
- p10
- $98,330
- p90
- $158,080
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 90.1
New Jersey
Nurse Practitioners
- Median
- $159,310
- p25
- $136,740
- p75
- $170,530
- p10
- $122,390
- p90
- $183,420
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 108.8
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Cost-of-living adjustment from BEA Regional Price Parities (overall index). Hiring velocity from DOL OFLC public disclosure data, recent 180 days vs prior. See methodology.