Florida / Department of Veterans' Affairs / Senior Certified Nursing Assistant
Job-title file
Senior Certified Nursing Assistant
Provide direct patient care — assess conditions, administer treatment and medication, and coordinate with physicians.
538 employees hold this title in Department of Veterans' Affairs. Median total compensation for the role is $38,461, below the department median of $40,282.
- Employees
- 538
- Total payroll
- $20.9M
- Role median
- $38,461
- Agency median
- $40,282
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 538 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
Senior Certified Nursing Assistant pay vs. Florida
Across all employers in Florida, the median wage for Nursing Assistants — about 96,960 people — is $37,510. Department of Veterans' Affairs pays a median base salary of $38,461 for this role, 3% above that figure — about the 55th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Veterans' Affairs sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Nursing Assistants across every employer in Florida, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Veterans' Affairs’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Nursing Assistants — about 1,448,910 people — is $42,260. Department of Veterans' Affairs’s median base salary is 9% 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 Florida range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Veterans' Affairs is $38,461, 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.
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