2026 Advertised Pay Data
PMHNP Salary Guide
National median $157,000 per year, computed from live postings that disclose a range. State-by-state medians, practice settings, and tools to pressure-test any offer.
Advertised Pay Explorer
Live figures from postings on this site. Pick a state; only states with at least 5 disclosed ranges appear.
Quick Answer: PMHNP Salary in 2026
The median advertised PMHNP salary is $157,000 per year across 1,355 live postings with disclosed ranges. The middle 50% of postings advertise $119K to $204K. The highest advertised medians right now: Maine ($275K), New Hampshire ($275K), Rhode Island ($241K). On a standard 2,080-hour year that median works out to about $75 per hour (a derived conversion, not an advertised hourly rate). These are advertised figures, not self-reported earnings, and they refresh daily.
Salary by Location
PMHNP Salary by State
Median advertised pay per state, ranked. Click any state for its full guide and open jobs.
Note: live data from active postings that disclose a salary range. States appear once at least 5 postings disclose a range; the middle-50% column needs 10.
Salary Breakdown
What Impacts Your Earnings
Why We Don't Publish an Experience Table
Fewer than 1% of live postings state a required experience level alongside a salary range, so any “new grad vs 10 years” dollar table would be invented. What postings show instead: most employers advertise one range for the role and negotiate within it based on autonomy, panel size, and prescriptive experience.
If you are negotiating, the honest move is to find where an offer lands in the advertised distribution for your state. The Offer Analyzer does that in your browser, and new grad friendly roles are tagged across the board.
High-Demand Niches
Scarce skills tend to command stronger offers. Browse live postings per niche instead of trusting invented premium percentages.
Full Practice Authority
26 states and DC grant Full Practice Authority. FPA opens independent practice and private-practice ownership, which widens your earning ceiling.
✓ Full Practice Authority
- • Independent practice allowed
- • Can own a practice outright
- • Full prescriptive autonomy
Restricted / Reduced
- • Collaboration agreement needed
- • Supervision costs reduce margin
- • Ownership options limited
Market Intelligence
Live Market Snapshot
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Factors Affecting PMHNP Salary
Geographic Location
High cost-of-living, high-demand states tend to advertise more. Compare states in the live table above rather than relying on rules of thumb.
Experience Level
Employers pay for autonomy: prescriptive experience, panel size, and supervision-free practice. Most postings advertise one range regardless of years, then negotiate within it.
Practice Setting
Private practice and telehealth roles often advertise differently than hospital or community settings. See the live setting medians above.
Employment Type
1099 contract rates usually look higher than W-2 salaries because they carry self-employment tax and no benefits. Run both through our 1099 vs W-2 calculator before comparing.
Specialization
Niches with fewer qualified candidates (addiction, child and adolescent, forensic) are frequently in demand. Browse those categories to see what employers actually offer.
Negotiation
Knowing the advertised percentile of your offer is leverage. The Offer Analyzer shows exactly where an offer lands before you counter.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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🧰 Put This Data to Work
Free tools built on the same live posting data: check whether your offer is competitive, convert hourly to annual, compare 1099 vs W-2 take-home, or see practice authority by state.
Data Sources & Methodology: every dollar figure on this page is a median of advertised salary midpoints from the 1,698 live postings on this site. Employer-estimated ranges are excluded; defective ranges (implausible bounds, max more than 3× min, midpoints outside $50k to $500k) are quarantined; figures only publish when at least 5 postings disclose a range, and percentile ranges need 10. Labor-market context (job growth, shortage areas) is attributed to BLS and HRSA where cited. Figures refresh daily.
