Side by side

Nurse Practitioner vs Therapist / Counselor

Nurse Practitioner pays more: a median of $132,500 against $94,000. There is 2.0× more demand for Nurse Practitioner. Listings for Nurse Practitioner move faster — median age 39 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNurse PractitionerTherapist / CounselorGap
Open postings30,11214,899+15,213
Posted this week2,620424
Median salary$132,500$94,000+$38.5k
25th percentile$105k$74.5k
75th percentile$165k$117k
Salary disclosed3.6%4.1%
Remote share8.3%3.4%+4.9pp
Median age of posting39d85d
Open over 60 days33.6%33.8%
Visa sponsorship24.6%7.8%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nurse Practitioner

$60k$229k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nurse Practitioner

just posted39d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d 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%

Therapist / Counselor — technologies

PostgreSQL
72.0%
TypeScript
65.8%
Terraform
59.6%
Kubernetes
53.4%
Spark
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
JavaScript
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%

Therapist / Counselor — employers

Aperture Labs
9.4%
Brightline Retail
8.7%
Meridian Software
8.0%
Fairmount Legal
7.2%
Beacon Robotics
6.5%
Ironbark Manufacturing
5.8%
Cobalt Financial
5.1%

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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%.