Registered Nurses salary in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

The figures

The median Registered Nurses in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area earns $130,310 a year ($62.65 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Registered Nurses in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn between $108,280 and $136,460 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $97,180 or less and the top 10 percent earn $155,650 or more. BLS estimates 24,220 Registered Nurses jobs in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area — 20.045 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.92 (below the national concentration). That is 0.7% of all Registered Nurses employment in the United States (3,379,720 jobs nationally). By employment, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA is the #24 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Registered Nurses. In aggregate, Registered Nurses in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn about $3.03 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $87,089.04 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Registered Nurses is about $2.11 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 1.7% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA stands #5 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Registered Nurses. By employment, Registered Nurses is the #4 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Placed against the national distribution for Registered Nurses, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $130,310 falls above the national 75th percentile of $112,350. Across all occupations, the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median is $60,690 a year — Registered Nurses pay is 114.7% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Registered Nurses in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA earn 1.6 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($155,650 against $97,180). The middle half spans $28,180 — from $108,280 to $136,460. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($74.83) is 1.60 times the 10th ($46.72). In the upper half of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $136,460 takes home $93,418.30 and the 90th percentile wage of $155,650 takes home $104,288.04 — $10,869.74 more net for $19,190 more gross. Against the median take-home of $89,963.98, the top decile keeps 1.16 times as much. The mean wage of $125,230 sits 3.9% below the median: the average is held down by the lower end of the distribution in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA. Among the 30 covered occupations in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA, Registered Nurses ranks #2 by median pay. In the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA wage ladder of covered occupations, Registered Nurses sits between Software Developers at $156,000 and General and Operations Managers at $121,050. Registered Nurses accounts for 2.0% of all employment in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA metro area. The average covered metro employs 55,027 Registered Nurses; 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, $89,963.98 of the $130,310 gross is kept ($3,460.15 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 30.96%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 27.67% at the 10th percentile, 29.01% at the 25th percentile, 31.54% at the 75th percentile, 33.00% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $16,548.64 on a gross rise of $28,180.

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 $70,294.96 a year at the 10th percentile to $104,288.04 at the 90th — a spread of $33,993.08 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 Registered Nurses median take-home of $89,963.98 sits $43,046.70 (above that area-wide figure.

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 $130,310 in Oregon

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Registered Nurses earns $97,550 a year ($46.90 an hour). The Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA median of $130,310 is $32,760 (33.6%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $125,230 a year in Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA against $101,420 nationally, a gap of $23,810 (23.5%).

Set against the whole local market, the Registered Nurses 90th percentile of $155,650 is 114% of the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA all-occupations 90th percentile ($136,920), and its 10th percentile of $97,180 is 261% 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.