Compared with the local labor market
Nurse pay vs. the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area
Across all employers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 43,600 people — is $103,040. Public Health pays a median base salary of $93,880 for this role, 9% below that figure — about the 25th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Public Health sits in the local pay range
$82,180
$94,170
$103,040
$123,900
$133,450
Public Health median · $93,880
The bar is the range of annual wages for Registered Nurses across every employer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Public Health’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. Public Health’s median base salary is 4% below that national figure, about the 45th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$68,940
$80,330
$97,550
$112,350
$137,470
Public Health median · $93,880
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 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 4 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Public Health is $93,115, 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
This role across Ramsey County, Minnesota
Nurse is held in 4 Ramsey County, Minnesota departments. In Public Health, the median of $93,115 ranks #1 of 4.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Nurse role in other Ramsey County, Minnesotadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
Nurse beyond Ramsey County, Minnesota
This role is reported in 10 jurisdictions. In Ramsey County, Minnesota, the median of $23,847 ranks #9 of 10. See Nurse across all of Ramsey County, Minnesota →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Nurse roles 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.