Side by side

Registered Nurse vs Therapist / Counselor

Registered Nurse pays more: a median of $102,500 against $94,000. There is 2.6× more demand for Registered Nurse. Listings for Registered Nurse move faster — median age 77 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureRegistered NurseTherapist / CounselorGap
Open postings38,08914,899+23,190
Posted this week837424
Median salary$102,500$94,000+$8.5k
25th percentile$81k$74.5k
75th percentile$127k$117k
Salary disclosed7.5%4.1%
Remote share5.3%3.4%+1.9pp
Median age of posting77d85d
Open over 60 days41.2%33.8%
Visa sponsorship16.2%7.8%
Pay

Pay distribution

Registered Nurse

$46k$177k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Registered Nurse

just posted77d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Registered Nurse — technologies

Kubernetes
72.0%
SQL
65.8%
GCP
59.6%
Docker
53.4%
Swift
47.2%
Kotlin
41.0%
TypeScript
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%

Registered Nurse — employers

Rivergate Media
9.4%
Northwind Systems
8.7%
Beacon Robotics
8.0%
Tidewater Insurance
7.2%
Brightline Retail
6.5%
Meridian Software
5.8%
Umbra Security
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%.