Registered nurses
in the area including Somerset, Kentucky earned salaries just below the state average in May 2009.
Somerset is in Kentucky's Pulaski County, which had average yearly salaries of nearly $60,000 for registered nurses in May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This places it in the middle of the pack for Kentucky RN salaries.
Average Salary
Somerset is part of the Kentucky's south central nonmetropolitan area, where registered nurses made average, or mean, wages of $27.86 per hour or $57,940 per year in May 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Salaries ranged from $38,710 or less for the lowest-paid 10 percent of RNs in the nonmetropolitan area to $78,780 or more for the best-paid 10 percent.
City Comparison
The average annual salary for registered nurses in the south central Kentucky nonmetropolitan area was the sixth-highest among all metropolitan and nonmetropoltian areas in the state in May 2009, according to the BLS, behind only Bowling Green, Cincinatti-Middletown (on the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana border), Elizabethtown, Huntington-Ashland (straddling Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio), Lexington-Fayette and Louisville-Jefferson on the Kentucky-Indiana border. Six other metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in the state had lower average yearly salaries for registered nurses.
State Average
Kentucky-wide, the average wages for registered nurses were $27.94 per hour or $58,110 per year, less than $200 more per year than in the area including the city of Somerset. Nationally, registered nurses made an average of $31.99 per hour or $66,530 per year in 2009.
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