Registered Nurses salary in Dallas, Texas

With 72,640 registered nurses employed in the Dallas metro, this is one of the larger nursing labor markets in the country. The median annual wage came in at $98,740 in 2024, about 10% above the Texas median of $90,010 and roughly 4% above the national median of $94,511.

The average wage tells a slightly different story. At $96,720, it sits below the median, which means the top earners here are not pulling the average up the way they do in some other metros. The distribution is relatively balanced around the middle.

The spread from bottom to top is wide. Nurses at the 10th percentile earned $67,400, while those at the 90th earned $122,800. That gap of roughly $55,000 reflects real differences in specialty, seniority, and setting. An ICU nurse with ten years at a large health system and a new graduate at a community clinic both count in these figures.

The gap between Dallas and the Texas median is one of the more consistent patterns we see in BLS metro data. Dallas, Houston, and Austin routinely pay above the statewide figure, partly because the hospitals and health systems concentrated in these metros tend to hire into higher-acuity roles that carry stronger wages. The $8,730 difference between Dallas and the Texas median is meaningful for anyone weighing a position in the metro against one elsewhere in the state.