Which pays more, Nurse Practitioner or Physician?

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 Physician

Physician pays more: a median of $223,500 against $132,500. Demand is comparable on both sides.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Nurse Practitioner	Physician	Gap
Open postings	30,112	39,626	-9,514
Posted this week	2,620	1,356
Median salary	$132,500	$223,500	$-91k
25th percentile	$105k	$177k
75th percentile	$165k	$277k
Salary disclosed	3.6%	8.2%
Remote share	8.3%	11.0%	-2.7pp
Median age of posting	39d	43d
Open over 60 days	33.6%	36.4%
Visa sponsorship	24.6%	12.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Nurse Practitioner

$60k$229k

Physician

$101k$387k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Nurse Practitioner

just posted39d median90d+

Physician

just posted43d 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%

Physician — technologies

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

JavaScript

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

Java

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%

Physician — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Rivergate Media

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%.