Which pays more, Nurse Practitioner or Physical Therapist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Nurse Practitioner vs Physical Therapist

Nurse Practitioner pays more: a median of $132,500 against $96,500. Demand is comparable on both sides. Listings for Nurse Practitioner move faster — median age 39 days against 70.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Nurse Practitioner	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	30,112	40,356	-10,244
Posted this week	2,620	3,573
Median salary	$132,500	$96,500	+$36k
25th percentile	$105k	$76k
75th percentile	$165k	$120k
Salary disclosed	3.6%	8.5%
Remote share	8.3%	13.0%	-4.7pp
Median age of posting	39d	70d
Open over 60 days	33.6%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	24.6%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Nurse Practitioner

$60k$229k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Nurse Practitioner

just posted39d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Nurse Practitioner — technologies

Swift

72.0%

GCP

65.8%

Java

59.6%

SQL

53.4%

Snowflake

47.2%

AWS

41.0%

React

34.8%

Physical Therapist — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

Java

47.2%

dbt

41.0%

Kubernetes

34.8%

Nurse Practitioner — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Northwind Systems

8.0%

Rivergate Media

7.2%

Kestrel Health

6.5%

Tidewater Insurance

5.8%

Solstice Biotech

5.1%

Physical Therapist — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Vantage Logistics

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Northwind Systems

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Healthcare comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.