Registered nurses (RNs) represent the largest clinical workforce in the US. We examined RN wages relative to wages for other health care occupations for the period 2012–23. Although annual inflation-adjusted wages increased across all health care occupations, RNs experienced the smallest growth (0.51 percent), and nursing assistants experienced the greatest (1.48 percent). Comparing 2012 to 2023, wage gaps between RNs narrowed compared with some professions and widened compared with others.
Ratliff et al. (Wed,) studied this question.