State comparison · 2025
Nurse Practitioners salary: Mississippi vs Washington
Nurse Practitioners in Washington earn a median of $156,100. In Mississippi, $124,730. After cost-of-living, the gap is 1.7% — not 20.1%.
Nominal pay gap
-20.1%
Mississippi vs Washington
COL-adjusted gap
-1.7%
After BEA Regional Price Parities
Mississippi
Nurse Practitioners
- Median
- $124,730
- p25
- $106,660
- p75
- $134,020
- p10
- $98,780
- p90
- $156,830
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 87.0
Washington
Nurse Practitioners
- Median
- $156,100
- p25
- $129,670
- p75
- $169,500
- p10
- $122,420
- p90
- $187,240
- COL index (BEA RPP)100 = US average
- 107.0
- Hiring velocity (180d)
- +100%
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.