Registered Nurses in New York
Every figure on this page is a published state-level statistic or a stated calculation on one. New York has 204,120 registered nurses on employer payrolls — 10.3 for every 1,000 residents.
What the pay is worth here
New York's price level runs at 107.9 against a national 100. Dividing the mean wage by that index puts New York at $102,380 in national-average dollars — 7th highest of the 51 states and DC on that measure.
The adjusted figure is our arithmetic, not a published wage: mean wage ÷ price index × 100. Price index: Derived from BEA implicit regional price deflators (SAIRPD 2024): state/US x 100; matches published RPPs within ~2pts
The 2038 outlook
HRSA projects New York will have 102.6% of the registered nurses it needs by 2038 — a projected surplus, on their assumptions. A projection is a model of the future, not a measurement of it.
Source: HRSA Workforce Projections FY2025 full-data workbook, Registered Nurses, Rurality=Total
Staffing law and licence portability
- Staffing ratios: mandated ratios
- Nurse Licensure Compact: enacted, pending
Both of these come from secondary-source compilations, not from statute text we have read ourselves — the weakest provenance on this page, and flagged as such. Ratios: Secondary-source compilation (nursejournal.org, hklaw.com, nursinglicensure.org), retrieved 2026-08-14; NY=ICU/critical care only, MA=ICU only, OR=phased from 2024 · Compact: 41 member states per nurse.org/NCSBN-derived lists, June 2026; MA/MI/MN/NY enacted awaiting implementation
Nursing programmes in New York
We hold NCLEX results for 141 New York programmes. The largest by most recent cohort:
| Programme | Cohort | Sat | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | 2025 | 430 | 81.9% |
| Molloy College | 2025 | 395 | 86.7% |
| St. Paul's School of Nursing- Queens | 2025 | 338 | 44.7% |
| Adelphi University | 2025 | 306 | 86.3% |
| Long Island University- Brooklyn | 2025 | 261 | 69.7% |
| University of Mount Saint Vincent-Asdbs | 2025 | 224 | 78.6% |
| Mercy College- Bronx | 2025 | 210 | 65.7% |
| Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing | 2025 | 210 | 77.1% |
Ordered by cohort size, not by pass rate: at these sample sizes a programme of nine graduates would otherwise outrank one of three hundred. Every row carries the number who sat the exam so you can weigh it yourself. Source: State boards of nursing (7 states) · College Scorecard field-of-study · CCNE + ACEN directories; conservative name matching, unmatched shown as partial profiles
What this page has, and what it doesn't
- Has: pay, employment and RNs per capita from the BLS OEWS May 2024 state file; a cost-of-living adjustment we calculate; HRSA's 2038 supply projection; staffing-law and compact status from secondary sources.
- Doesn't have: first-person accounts, survey answers, specialty breakdowns, turnover or satisfaction for New York. Those exist on this site only at national level — the accounts we collect are not reliably tied to a state, and inventing a location for them would be worse than admitting we cannot.