By Melissa Hart, healthcare compensation reporter with 12 years covering advanced-practice clinicians, hospital staffing, and provider pay
Last reviewed: July 19, 2026
Current Johns Hopkins Hospital postings list $58.03 to $89.94 an hour for several Nurse Practitioner I positions and $60.93 to $94.45 an hour for certain acute-care NP or physician-assistant roles. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a $132,050 median annual wage for nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners and $133,260 for physician assistants in May 2024.
myJH is the Johns Hopkins institutional portal. It does not set clinical compensation, and employees using the same portal may work for different hospitals, physician groups, or university entities with separate pay structures.
The current Johns Hopkins NP ranges
Two Baltimore postings show a consistent range for Nurse Practitioner I work.
The Neurosciences Intermediate Care position and the Abdominal Transplant position each listed $58.03 to $89.94 an hour. Johns Hopkins states that final compensation will reflect equity and experience for positions with comparable scope and responsibility.
A separate Acute Care Nurse Practitioner I position in the cardiovascular surgical intensive care unit listed $60.93 to $94.45 an hour. A related posting open to either a Nurse Practitioner I or Physician Assistant I used the same range.
| Current Johns Hopkins position | Published hourly range | Annualized at 40 hours |
|---|---|---|
| Nurse Practitioner I, Neurosciences IMC | $58.03–$89.94 | $120,702–$187,075 |
| Nurse Practitioner I, Abdominal Transplant | $58.03–$89.94 | $120,702–$187,075 |
| Acute Care NP I, CVSICU | $60.93–$94.45 | $126,734–$196,456 |
| NP I or PA I, cardiovascular unit | $60.93–$94.45 | $126,734–$196,456 |
| PRN NP or PA, Suburban Hospital CVICU | $84.75 fixed hourly rate | Schedule-dependent |
Annual figures are calculations from the official Johns Hopkins hourly ranges. The PRN posting publishes an hourly rate but not a guaranteed annual schedule.
The upper boundaries approach $200,000 when converted using a full 40-hour schedule.
That number needs context.
A posted maximum does not represent the average Johns Hopkins NP salary, the standard offer for a newly qualified clinician, or the amount automatically paid after completing orientation. Johns Hopkins identifies experience and internal equity as compensation factors, while the vacancy’s clinical intensity and specialty also differ.
What the annualized numbers leave out
Hourly clinical postings are easy to overstate when converted into annual salaries.
The calculation of $196,456 assumes 40 paid hours every week for 52 weeks at the top of the CVSICU range. It excludes unpaid absences, schedule changes, overtime, on-call compensation, shift arrangements, and any time worked below or above the standard schedule.
PRN work is even harder to annualize.
The Suburban Hospital cardiovascular intensive-care posting showed $84.75 an hour for a PRN nurse practitioner or physician assistant. That rate would equal $176,280 at 40 hours each week, but PRN employment does not promise that volume of work.
Rate and annual income are separate.
A PRN clinician may receive a stronger hourly figure while lacking a predictable schedule or the same benefit package provided to a regular full-time employee. The reviewed posting describes the hourly rate but does not publish a guaranteed number of annual hours.
What BLS data says about advanced-practice pay
The BLS groups nurse practitioners with nurse anesthetists and nurse midwives in one Occupational Outlook Handbook profile. That combined occupation had a $132,050 median annual wage in May 2024, and the highest 10% earned more than $217,270.
Physician assistants had a separate $133,260 median annual wage in May 2024. BLS projects PA employment to increase 20% from 2024 to 2034.
The Johns Hopkins NP ranges cross both national medians.
The bottom of the $58.03 range annualizes to roughly $120,702, below the BLS advanced-practice nursing median. The upper end annualizes well above it. The $60.93 to $94.45 range starts closer to the BLS median and extends beyond it.
That does not establish whether Hopkins pays above or below market overall.
BLS reports the middle worker nationally. Johns Hopkins publishes possible pay boundaries for named vacancies in Baltimore. A range includes workers with different experience, while a median identifies the point at which half the occupational workforce earns more and half earns less.
The comparison is directional, not conclusive.
Nurse practitioner and physician assistant are not identical roles
Some Johns Hopkins openings accept either a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, but the professions follow different educational and licensing routes.
Nurse practitioners are advanced-practice registered nurses. The Johns Hopkins Neurosciences posting requires the relevant nurse-practitioner credentials and clinical preparation for the role.
Physician assistants typically complete a graduate-level PA program and obtain professional licensure. BLS reports that the occupation generally requires a master’s degree.
The two professions can perform overlapping clinical work within a hospital team, including assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, orders, procedures, and patient management. The legal scope and supervision or collaboration framework can vary by profession, jurisdiction, and institutional policy.
A joint NP-or-PA posting does not mean the credentials are interchangeable.
It means Johns Hopkins has determined that either professional pathway can meet the needs of that particular vacancy, subject to its requirements.
Specialty changes the compensation context
The reviewed Johns Hopkins vacancies sit in high-acuity settings.
Neurosciences intermediate care, abdominal transplant, and cardiovascular surgical intensive care involve patients whose conditions can change rapidly and whose treatment may require complex coordination, procedural knowledge, and close monitoring.
That context matters when comparing pay.
A primary-care nurse practitioner working in an outpatient clinic may have a different schedule, patient mix, call expectation, productivity model, and compensation structure from an acute-care NP managing critically ill patients.
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians had several current NP postings whose salary fields displayed $0, with compensation to be discussed during candidate screening. These included internal-medicine and family-practice opportunities.
No public range means no defensible comparison.
A recruitment phrase such as “competitive salary” is not a number. It should not be converted into an estimate based on another hospital, another specialty, or a third-party average.
Where the $94.45 headline misleads
“Johns Hopkins nurse practitioners make $94.45 an hour” is not an accurate general statement.
That figure is the maximum listed for specific acute-care positions that may involve cardiovascular intensive care. The standard NP I range in two other reviewed Johns Hopkins Hospital postings topped out at $89.94.
Even within one institution, the maximum differs by vacancy.
The better statement is that reviewed Hopkins NP and NP-or-PA postings in Baltimore ranged from approximately $58 to $94 an hour, with certain PRN work listed at a fixed $84.75 hourly rate.
That wording preserves the variation.
It also avoids implying that a primary-care NP, specialty NP, acute-care NP, physician assistant, and PRN provider share one compensation scale.
Third-party estimates can conflict with official postings
Indeed estimated average Johns Hopkins Health System Nurse Practitioner pay at $107,739 annually, using 11 past and present postings. Its Acute Care Nurse Practitioner estimate was $64.62 an hour, based on one posting.
Those figures sit below or near parts of the current official Johns Hopkins ranges.
The conflict is understandable.
Indeed’s estimates may combine dates, locations, schedules, entities, and specialties. The acute-care estimate relies on only one posting, while the broader NP estimate may include jobs without published ranges or with differing appointment structures.
The current employer posting is the stronger source for a current vacancy.
Third-party data can be useful when no official range exists, but it should be labeled approximate. A small sample should never be presented as a verified Johns Hopkins average.
The career path begins with nursing or PA education
The nurse-practitioner route builds on registered nursing.
BLS describes advanced-practice registered nurses as clinicians who usually need at least a master’s degree in their specialty, state licensure, and national certification. Their prior education includes registered-nursing preparation.
The physician-assistant route typically requires a master’s degree from an accredited PA program, followed by licensure.
This creates a sharp difference from the regular RN pay structure.
Current Johns Hopkins Hospital RN postings showed $39.64 to $61.45 an hour, while the reviewed Nurse Practitioner I ranges began at $58.03 or $60.93.
The minimum difference between $39.64 and $58.03 is $18.39 an hour. Between $39.64 and $60.93, it is $21.29.
Those calculations do not represent a guaranteed raise for an RN who becomes an NP.
Advanced-practice education, licensure, specialty preparation, experience, and a successful application to an NP vacancy are all required before the separate range applies.
Strong national growth does not guarantee every vacancy
Advanced-practice professions have favorable national projections.
BLS projects employment of nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners to grow rapidly over the 2024–34 decade, while physician-assistant employment is projected to rise 20%.
The growth is tied to expanding healthcare demand and the use of advanced-practice clinicians in team-based care.
National demand does not guarantee that Johns Hopkins will expand every specialty or location. Hiring depends on patient volume, department budgets, service design, physician staffing, reimbursement, and the ability to recruit clinicians with the required specialty credentials.
One page can also show numerous advanced-practice openings without proving net workforce growth. Johns Hopkins maintains a dedicated careers category for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, but vacancies may represent replacements as well as new positions.
Open jobs show demand. They do not identify its cause.
Physician pay is a poor direct benchmark
BLS reports that the median wage for physicians and surgeons was equal to or above $239,200 annually in May 2024. Medical education usually includes four years of medical school followed by three to nine years of internship and residency, with additional fellowship training for some subspecialties.
That figure should not be used to judge whether Hopkins NP pay is low.
Physicians and advanced-practice clinicians have different training paths, scopes of responsibility, labor markets, and compensation models. Physician pay may also include productivity, call, specialty, academic, or leadership components that do not appear in a basic annual median.
The roles can overlap clinically without being economically identical.
A Johns Hopkins team may include attending physicians, residents, fellows, NPs, PAs, registered nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and technicians. Comparing each role requires the matching occupation and vacancy rather than one broad “provider salary.”
Fixed hourly PRN pay carries a tradeoff
The $84.75 hourly PRN rate at Suburban Hospital is one of the clearest figures in the current postings.
It is also one of the easiest to misread.
A regular full-time clinician may receive predictable hours and access to a comprehensive employee package, while a PRN clinician may be scheduled according to operational need. The posting reviewed does not establish an annual minimum of hours.
The rate therefore compensates for a different employment arrangement.
An hourly rate above the lower end of the regular Hopkins Hospital range does not automatically produce greater annual compensation. Work volume determines the result.
This is particularly relevant for clinicians using PRN work to supplement another job. The posted rate is real; the annual earnings remain unknown.
Salary transparency remains uneven
Several Johns Hopkins Hospital advanced-practice postings include full minimum and maximum ranges. Several Johns Hopkins Community Physicians postings display a zero-dollar range and state that compensation will be discussed during screening.
That creates uneven public information within the broader system.
A candidate comparing a Baltimore hospital NP role with a community-practice role can see the hospital range but not the community-practice number before entering the screening process.
The absence of a public figure does not prove lower or higher pay. It means the information cannot be verified from the posting.
No number is better than a fabricated one.
What public data cannot establish
The reviewed sources do not reveal:
- median NP pay across all Johns Hopkins entities;
- the average offer inside each posted range;
- specialty or night differentials;
- on-call and overtime compensation;
- annual productivity incentives;
- signing-bonus amounts;
- salary progression from NP I to higher levels;
- turnover or retention rates;
- the percentage of advanced-practice vacancies filled internally;
- total compensation by benefits tier.
BLS reports national occupational data, not Johns Hopkins averages. Indeed uses small and mixed samples. Official postings provide strong vacancy-specific evidence but do not disclose the final accepted salary.
The exact position remains the controlling unit of comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Does myJH determine nurse-practitioner pay?
No. The employing Johns Hopkins entity does.
What is the Johns Hopkins Hospital NP I range?
Two reviewed postings listed $58.03 to $89.94 an hour.
What does an acute-care NP earn at Johns Hopkins?
A reviewed cardiovascular intensive-care posting listed $60.93 to $94.45 an hour.
What is the PRN NP or PA rate?
A Suburban Hospital CVICU posting listed a fixed rate of $84.75 an hour. The posting did not guarantee annual hours.
How does that compare with BLS data?
BLS reported a $132,050 median for nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, and nurse practitioners and $133,260 for physician assistants in May 2024.
Are NP and PA salaries identical at Hopkins?
Not universally. Some vacancies accept either profession under one range, while other postings are limited to nurse practitioners. The exact position controls.
Why do some Hopkins postings show a $0 salary range?
Those pages state that compensation discussions will occur during candidate screening before later discussions with the hiring authority. A zero display is not evidence that the work is unpaid.
Are advanced-practice jobs growing?
Yes nationally. BLS projects strong growth for advanced-practice nursing occupations and 20% growth for physician assistants from 2024 to 2034. These are national forecasts, not Johns Hopkins hiring commitments.
The most defensible compensation estimate comes from the exact Johns Hopkins vacancy, schedule, specialty, and employing entity, compared with the corresponding BLS occupation rather than a generic myJH clinician salary.
