BLS MSA DATA · SOC 29-1171 · 7,310 MSA WORKERS · NO STATE INCOME TAX
Nurse Practitioner Salary in Dallas, TX 2026, $130,980 Median | BLS + Market Data
NP pay across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, where a wide published band separates system-employed ambulatory work from the metroplex's inpatient and specialty roles.
Updated July 2026 · BLS OEWS May 2025
Compiled by GlobalCybers Labor Market Research · Reviewed by Karen Osei, RN, BSN, Clinical Recruitment Lead · See methodology & sources →
Dallas Median
$130,980
$62.97/hr BLS
P75
$155,580
$74.80/hr
Sector Peak
$162,950
Metro P90
BLS Workers
7,310
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA
vs TX Median
−$690
−0.5% below TX
Direct Answer
How much do nurse practitioners make in Dallas, TX in 2026?
Dallas nurse practitioners earn a BLS median of $130,980/yr ($62.97/hr) for the combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, 0.5% below the Texas statewide median and 1% below the US figure. What matters here is the shape rather than the level: the band runs $93,690 to $162,950, one of the widest in the country, because the metroplex's ambulatory and retail-clinic sector sits far below its inpatient specialty roles. → Full nurse practitioner career guide, career path, BON licence, and Dallas job placement →
Key takeaways
Dallas nurse practitioners earn a BLS MSA median of $130,980/yr ($62.97/hr) per BLS OEWS May 2025 (SOC 29-1171, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA), with a metro P10–P90 range of $93,690 to $162,950.
The metroplex NP median sits marginally below the Texas statewide figure, but the local band is one of the widest in the country at $93,690 to $162,950.
BLS publishes a single estimate for the combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, so this figure covers Tarrant County employers as well as Dallas ones.
Specialty and inpatient roles, not seniority, account for almost all of the distance between the metro median and the top of the band.
Dallas Nurse Practitioner Pay Distribution · BLS OEWS May 2025
Source: BLS OEWS May 2025
Dallas Pay by Level · BLS OEWS May 2025
How much do Dallas nurse practitioners earn at each level?
BLS OEWS publishes one blended metro wage for the whole occupation and does not break pay out by credential or practice level. The levels below distribute this MSA's own published percentile range across the tiers Dallas employers actually hire at.
Level
MSA Median (BLS percentile-aligned)
New-graduate APRN, first year
$93,690
Certified family NP (FNP), ambulatory
$130,980
Acute care NP, inpatient
$155,580
Cardiology or surgical specialty NP
$162,950
Level medians are aligned to this metro's own published BLS OEWS May 2025 percentiles for SOC 29-1171; BLS does not publish a wage by credential level. GlobalCybers holds no verified placement sample for Dallas nurse practitioners, so no verified median is shown.
Methodology & Sources
Published (BLS): BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 29-1171, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA. No verified placement data: GlobalCybers has no placement sample for Dallas nurse practitioners, so every figure on this page is a published BLS estimate and no verified median is claimed. MSA sample size: an OEWS metro cell is drawn from a much smaller establishment sample than the statewide cell, so metro medians carry wider uncertainty and move more between releases. Where BLS suppresses or top-codes the metro wage for this occupation, this page reports the national figure and says so rather than asserting a Dallas median. Employer names mentioned on this page (e.g. in sector or FAQ copy) are illustrative examples of who hires in each market, not a claim of partnership. Full statewide methodology → · Full site methodology & data sources →
Full Data
How much do nurse practitioners make in Dallas TX in 2026?
Metric
Value
Source
BLS MSA Median (Annual)
$130,980
BLS OEWS May 2025
BLS Median Hourly
$62.97/hr
BLS OEWS May 2025
P10 (Bottom 10%)
$93,690/yr · $45.04/hr
BLS OEWS
P25
$102,120/yr · $49.10/hr
BLS OEWS
P75
$155,580/yr · $74.80/hr
BLS OEWS
P90 (Top 10%)
$162,950/yr · $78.34/hr
BLS OEWS
vs Texas Median
−$690 (−0.5%)
vs $131,670 TX
vs National Median
−$1,320 (−1%)
vs $132,300 US
Texas State Income Tax
$0, No state income tax
Texas Tax Code
Licensing Authority
BON (Texas Board of Nursing)
State board
Reading this page's sources:BLS OEWS is the official published wage, sampled 1–2 years back. Market intelligence rows are directional signals from recruiter conversations and industry sources, not independently verified — treat them as a range, not a benchmark.
Dallas Sectors
Which Dallas sector pays nurse practitioners the most?
BLS OEWS publishes one blended wage for nurse practitioners across the whole Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro and does not break it out by industry. The sectors below are ranked in the order Dallas employers actually pay, with each row anchored to this metro's own published percentile ladder (BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 29-1171).
Sector
MSA Median
Notes
Inpatient specialty and surgical-service NPs
$162,950
Cardiology, oncology and surgical-service NPs across the metroplex's large systems reach the $162,950 top of the band, with call pay on top.
Acute care and hospitalist NPs
$155,580
Inpatient acute-care roles sit around the $155,580 P75, and shift differentials are a standard part of the package.
System-employed ambulatory and primary care
$130,980
The typical metroplex NP in an employed clinic role sits at the $130,980 metro median.
Retail clinic, urgent care and new-graduate roles
$102,120
The metroplex's large retail-clinic and urgent-care sector, plus first-year NP posts, sits near the $102,120 P25 — the widest gap below the median of any large Texas metro.
Real Take-Home
What is the actual take-home pay for a Dallas nurse practitioner?
Real Dallas scenarios, line by line. No state income tax and no city wage tax across the metroplex, so an NP at the $130,980 median keeps everything above federal withholding and FICA. Metroplex NPs commonly hold a salaried post plus locum or telehealth shifts; that second income stream is self-employment and needs quarterly estimates.
Estimates only. Pre-tax deductions (401k, health premium) reduce taxable income further. Consult a tax professional.
Dallas nurse practitioners earn a BLS median of $130,980/yr, or $62.97/hr, published for the combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, with a range of $93,690 to $162,950. That is fractionally below the Texas statewide median. The band's width is the story: the metroplex's retail and urgent-care sector sits well under its inpatient specialty roles.
Do nurse practitioners earn more in Dallas than elsewhere in Texas?
Marginally below — the metro figure is 0.5% under the Texas statewide median, and about 2.7% under Houston's. Houston's medical district concentrates specialty roles more tightly, while the metroplex has a proportionally larger ambulatory and retail-clinic sector that pulls the median down.
Why do the Dallas and Fort Worth NP figures match?
BLS estimates wages for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro as a single area with no metropolitan divisions, so there is no separate Fort Worth NP median in the data. Employer mix does differ between the two sides of the metroplex, but the published survey cannot separate them.
Which Dallas NP roles pay the most?
Inpatient specialty roles — cardiology, oncology and surgical services — sit at the top of the published band near $162,950 before call pay, roughly 24% above the metro median. Acute-care hospitalist NPs sit around the $155,580 P75. Ambulatory and retail roles occupy the lower half.
What licence do Dallas nurse practitioners need?
A Texas APRN licence from the Texas Board of Nursing on top of an RN licence, with national certification in your population focus and a prescriptive authority agreement with a delegating physician. The licence is statewide, so it covers both sides of the metroplex.
Why the metroplex band is so wide
Dallas-Fort Worth has both a large hospital-system sector and one of the country's deepest retail-clinic and urgent-care footprints, and those two employment models pay very differently for the same licence. With a wide spread of ambulatory roles below and specialty inpatient roles above, the published distribution stretches roughly 74% from the 10th percentile to the 90th.
What this figure does not capture
This is a combined Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington estimate averaging two counties' employer mixes, and it blends every NP population focus into one number. It also excludes call pay, shift differentials and productivity bonuses, which for inpatient metroplex NPs are a routine part of income rather than an extra.
The ambulatory-versus-inpatient mechanic
In this market the single decision that most changes an NP's earnings is inpatient versus ambulatory, not years of experience. Moving from a retail or clinic role into an inpatient specialty service is worth substantially more than a decade of ambulatory seniority, which is why the metroplex's lower quartile and upper quartile look like two different occupations.
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