Table 1.

Wage distributions of nursing occupations employed in nursing and residential care facilities, January 2017-December 2019

	Sample size	10th percentile wage ($)	25th percentile wage ($)	Median wage ($)	Share with wages < 120% of state minimum wage	Share with wages < 150% of state minimum wage
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Nurse aides	1,420	10	11	12.9	0.14	0.50
LPNs	370	11	14	19	0.07	0.17
RNs	567	15.6	21.6	27.9	0.01	0.06

Source: Authors’ calculations from the pooled 2017–2019 Current Population Survey, Outgoing Rotation Groups (Earner Study), from IPUMS (Flood et al. 2020). Observations are weighted using EARNWT. Nurse aides include nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (occ2010 = 3600), LPNs include licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses (occ2010 = 3500), and RNs include registered nurses (occ2010 = 3130). Nursing and residential care facilities defined as industry codes 8270 and 8290