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Nurse Practitioners Salary in KY

In the 2025 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS dataset, Nurse Practitioners in KY have a median annual salary of $122,870, with 4,770 recorded jobs in this area. Recorded earnings range from $95,710 at the 10th percentile to $162,960 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

$122,870

Data year: 2025

Hourly median

$59.07

Employment

4,770

Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS

Salary distribution

$95,710
10th
$106,240
25th
$122,870
Median
$132,720
75th
$162,960
90th

Local compared with national

KY

$122,870

Median annual · 2025

United States

$132,300

Median annual · 2025

The KY median is 7.1% below the national median in the available dataset (a difference of $9,430).

Top skills

  1. 1.Reading ComprehensionImportance 4.1
  2. 2.Active ListeningImportance 4.1
  3. 3.Critical ThinkingImportance 4.1
  4. 4.Complex Problem SolvingImportance 4.1
  5. 5.WritingImportance 4.0
  6. 6.SpeakingImportance 4.0
  7. 7.Active LearningImportance 4.0
  8. 8.MonitoringImportance 4.0
  9. 9.Social PerceptivenessImportance 4.0
  10. 10.Judgment and Decision MakingImportance 4.0
  11. 11.Service OrientationImportance 3.9
  12. 12.ScienceImportance 3.8

Career information

Education and experience

Typical education
Master's Degree
Experience
Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years
Job zone
5

Technology used

  • Allscripts Professional EHR
  • Amkai AmkaiCharts
  • Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
  • Cerner Millennium
  • e-MDs software
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Epic Systems
  • GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
  • Medical condition coding software
  • Medical procedure coding software
  • MEDITECH software
  • Medscribbler Enterprise
  • MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR
  • Microsoft Access

Common tasks

  • Supervise or coordinate patient care or support staff activities.
  • Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses.
  • Develop treatment plans, based on scientific rationale, standards of care, and professional practice guidelines.
  • Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability.
  • Analyze and interpret patients' histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
  • Diagnose or treat complex, unstable, comorbid, episodic, or emergency conditions in collaboration with other health care providers as necessary.
  • Prescribe medication dosages, routes, and frequencies, based on such patient characteristics as age and gender.
  • Diagnose or treat chronic health care problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
  • Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.
  • Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.

Related careers

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

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