Seattle Public Schools / Nurse
Role across Seattle Public Schools
Nurse
Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.
83 people hold the Nurse role across 1 department in Seattle Public Schools, with a median total compensation of $122,042. Among 10 jurisdictions where this role is reported, Seattle Public Schools ranks #4 by median pay.
- Employees
- 83
- Median pay
- $122,042
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #4 of 10
Compared with the local labor market
Nurse pay vs. the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area
Across all employers in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, the median wage for Registered Nurses — about 39,900 people — is $128,260. Seattle Public Schools pays a median base salary of $84,643 for this role, 34% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Seattle Public Schools sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Registered Nurses across every employer in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Seattle Public Schools’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. Seattle Public Schools’s median base salary is 13% below that national figure, about the 31st 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 82 of 83 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 Seattle Public Schools is $122,042, 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 jurisdictions
Nurse pay in other jurisdictions
Where Nurses are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Nurse roles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.
Within Seattle Public Schools
Department with this role
The Seattle Public Schools department holding this role
The one department in Seattle Public Schools that reports this role. The bar links to that department’s page for it.