Nursing Assistants salary in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

The figures

The median Nursing Assistants in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area earns $50,350 a year ($24.21 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Nursing Assistants in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn between $47,640 and $59,330 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $43,980 or less and the top 10 percent earn $61,170 or more. BLS estimates 8,890 Nursing Assistants jobs in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area — 7.36 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.79 (below the national concentration). That is 0.6% of all Nursing Assistants employment in the United States (1,448,910 jobs nationally). By employment, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the #24 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Nursing Assistants. In aggregate, Nursing Assistants in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn about $0.47 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $41,083.50 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Nursing Assistants is about $0.37 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 3.5% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA stands #3 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Nursing Assistants. By employment, Nursing Assistants is the #24 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Placed against the national distribution for Nursing Assistants, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $50,350 falls above the national 75th percentile of $47,220. Across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median is $60,690 a year — Nursing Assistants pay is 17.0% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Nursing Assistants in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn 1.4 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($61,170 against $43,980). The middle half spans $11,690 — from $47,640 to $59,330. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($29.41) is 1.39 times the 10th ($21.15). In the upper half of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $59,330 takes home $45,929.08 and the 90th percentile wage of $61,170 takes home $47,265.72 — $1,336.64 more net for $1,840 more gross. Against the median take-home of $39,405.04, the top decile keeps 1.20 times as much. The mean wage of $52,660 sits 4.6% above the median: higher-paid Nursing Assistants pull the average up in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Nursing Assistants ranks #18 by median pay. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Nursing Assistants sits between Office Clerks, General at $50,640 and First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers at $48,900. Nursing Assistants accounts for 0.7% of all employment in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,090 Nursing Assistants; Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA employs 0.4 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Oregon

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Oregon; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $39,405.04 of the $50,350 gross is kept ($1,515.58 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 21.74%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 20.93% at the 10th percentile, 21.42% at the 25th percentile, 22.59% at the 75th percentile, 22.73% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $8,492.78 on a gross rise of $11,690.

The same engine at the other published points of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $34,777.04 a year at the 10th percentile to $47,265.72 at the 90th — a spread of $12,488.68 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median wage of $60,690 takes home $46,917.28 a year ($1,804.51 per paycheck, deduction rate 22.69%). The Nursing Assistants median take-home of $39,405.04 sits $7,512.24 (16.0%) below the area-wide median take-home of $46,917.28.

Multi-state metro area. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA also covers parts of Washington. The take-home estimate above uses Oregon rules — the metro area's primary state. If the job is based in another part of the metro area, the state tax changes: see the Washington paycheck calculator.

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Take-home pay for $50,350 in Oregon

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Nursing Assistants earns $42,260 a year ($20.32 an hour). The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $50,350 is $8,090 (19.1%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $52,660 a year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA against $42,700 nationally, a gap of $9,960 (23.3%).

Set against the whole local market, the Nursing Assistants 90th percentile of $61,170 is 45% of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($136,920), and its 10th percentile of $43,980 is 118% of the area-wide 10th ($37,200).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.