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Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Salary in TN

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses in TN have a median annual salary of $58,870, with 20,830 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $41,110 at the 10th percentile to $67,540 at the 90th percentile.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · Data year: 2025 · Last updated: 2026-09-22

Salary overview

Median annual salary

$58,870

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$28.31

Employment

20,830

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$41,110
10th
$49,170
25th
$58,870
Median
$62,650
75th
$67,540
90th

Local compared with national

TN

$58,870

Median annual · 2025

United States

$64,400

Median annual · 2025

The TN median is 8.6% below the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $5,530).

Top skills

  1. 1.Service OrientationImportance 4.1
  2. 2.Social PerceptivenessImportance 4.0
  3. 3.CoordinationImportance 4.0
  4. 4.Active ListeningImportance 3.9
  5. 5.SpeakingImportance 3.9
  6. 6.MonitoringImportance 3.9
  7. 7.Reading ComprehensionImportance 3.8
  8. 8.Critical ThinkingImportance 3.8
  9. 9.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 3.6
  10. 10.Time ManagementImportance 3.6
  11. 11.Active LearningImportance 3.4
  12. 12.WritingImportance 3.3

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Some College Courses
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
Job zone
3

Technology used

  • Diagnostic and procedural coding software
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Electronic medical record EMR software
  • Epic Systems
  • FaceTime
  • Google Drive
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
  • Infusion management software
  • Inventory tracking software
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Medical procedure coding software
  • MedicWare EMR
  • MEDITECH software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Exchange

Common tasks

  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
  • Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
  • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
  • Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
  • Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
  • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
  • Record food and fluid intake and output.
  • Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.

Related careers

Occupations recorded as related in the dataset. A relationship does not imply a guaranteed transition.

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