New York City / Department of Education Administrative / Staff Nurse
Job-title file
Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.
677 employees hold this title in Department of Education Administrative. Median total compensation for the role is $93,994, above the department median of $70,024.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 677 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 197,740 people — is $119,720. Department of Education Administrative pays a median base salary of $78,630 for this role, 34% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Registered Nurses across every employer in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Education Administrative’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 3,379,720 people — is $97,550. Department of Education Administrative’s median base salary is 19% below that national figure, about the 23rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 232 of 677 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Education Administrative is $93,994, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Staff Nurse is held in 10 New York City departments. In Department of Education Administrative, the median of $93,994 ranks #7 of 10.
Median total compensation for the Staff Nurse role in other New York Citydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In New York City, the median of $95,576 ranks #1 of 2. See Staff Nurse across all of New York City →
Median total compensation for comparable Staff Nurseroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Payroll for Barbara Cusumano (Staff Nurse, Department of Education Administrative) may cover more than one person; together they account for $30,283 in 2025.
Staff Nurse/Department of Education Administrative
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Blaire Watkins holds the role of Staff Nurse at Department of Education Administrative based in Queens. Hired in 2003, they have about 22 years of service. In 2025, their total compensation was $29,627.
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Payroll for Amna Mukhtar (Staff Nurse, Department of Education Administrative) may cover more than one person; together they account for $29,452 in 2025.
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Payroll for Shannon Saymaz (Staff Nurse, Department of Education Administrative) may cover more than one person; together they account for $28,664 in 2025.