Nurse Informaticist salary
A nurse informaticist earns about $101,090 a year — roughly $48.60/hour, with most earning between $82,070 and $108,840. This is an estimate — a starting point, not an exact figure.
Nurse Informaticist — U.S. national
Specialty estimateMedian annual pay
$101,090
Hourly
$48.60/hr
- Typical range
- $82,070–$108,840
- What most nurses earn
- High end
- $146,150
- Top earners
- Entry level
- $71,310
- Newer nurses
What affects this pay
- RN-BC informatics certification
- EHR platform expertise (Epic, Cerner/Oracle Health)
- Graduate degree (MSN or health informatics)
- Health system size and budget
- Project and analytics responsibilities
About Nurse Informaticists
What they do
Nurse informaticists configure and refine EHR documentation, build order sets and clinical decision support alerts, train staff on system changes, analyze quality and workflow data, and translate frontline nursing needs into requirements that software teams can act on.
How to become a Nurse Informaticist
Most enter after several years of bedside practice, often via super-user or EHR go-live roles. A BSN is the common floor and many employers prefer an MSN or a health informatics degree; the ANCC informatics nursing certification (RN-BC) formalizes the specialty once experience requirements are met.
What drives the pay
Public wage surveys count informaticists simply as registered nurses, so the estimates here are built on RN wage data and adjusted upward. Pay generally exceeds the bedside baseline because the position demands dual clinical-technical fluency, is compensated as a salaried professional role rather than hourly shift work, and competes with the broader health-IT job market for talent.
Nurse Informaticist pay by state
Where this role tends to pay the most.
| State | Annual pay | vs U.S. |
|---|---|---|
| California | $139,500 | +38% vs national |
| Hawaii | $121,310 | +20% vs national |
| Alaska | $119,280 | +18% vs national |
| Oregon | $119,280 | +18% vs national |
| Washington | $119,280 | +18% vs national |
| Massachusetts | $116,250 | +15% vs national |
| New York | $114,230 | +13% vs national |
| District of Columbia | $113,220 | +12% vs national |
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Nurse Informaticist salary FAQ
- How much do Nurse Informaticists make?
- Nurse Informaticists earn an estimated $101,090 a year — about $48.60 an hour, with most between $82,070 and $108,840. Nurse Informaticists aren't reported as a separate role in public wage data, so this is a specialty estimate that starts from registered nurse pay.
- What is the hourly pay for Nurse Informaticists?
- Most Nurse Informaticists are paid an hourly wage. The national estimate works out to about $48.60 an hour at a full-time schedule, with a typical range of $39.46 to $52.33. Nights, weekends, and overtime differentials push the real hourly rate higher.
- Which state pays Nurse Informaticists the most?
- California is among the highest-paying states for Nurse Informaticists, at roughly $139,500 a year, followed by other West Coast and Northeast states. State figures are estimates based on national pay and local cost of living.
- Why is Nurse Informaticist pay shown as an estimate?
- No public source measures Nurse Informaticists as a separate occupation, so we start from registered nurse pay and apply the pay difference these nurses typically see. The figure is clearly labeled an estimate and sharpens as nurses submit their own pay.
- Why are some figures verified and others estimates?
- National pay for the main nursing roles — registered nurses, LPNs/LVNs, nurse practitioners, CRNAs, nurse midwives, and nursing assistants — comes from verified public wage data. State, city, and specialty figures that aren't reported on their own start from that national pay and are labeled "Estimated" or "Specialty estimate." We never show an estimate as a verified figure.
Source & confidence— An estimate for a specialty that public pay data does not list on its own. A ballpark to start from, not an exact figure.
Modeled specialty estimate
Nurse Informaticist is not broken out by BLS. Figures are modeled from the SOC 29-1141 median using a specialty differential of 1.08×, reflecting commonly reported pay differences. Treat as directional, not precise.
Source year 2024. Last reviewed June 1, 2025. Full methodology
This role isn’t broken out in public wage data, so the figure starts from registered nurse pay and sharpens as nurses submit their pay. Last reviewed June 1, 2025.