Salaries / Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Healthcare · SOC 29-2061
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) salary
LPNs and LVNs provide basic nursing care under the direction of RNs and doctors, in nursing homes, hospitals, and clinics.
Pennsylvania
Median annual (PA)
$58,000
Median hourly (PA)
$27.80
Pennsylvania figures are ESTIMATES derived from the national median and a state wage index, not official statistics. Live state data shows here as soon as the lookup succeeds.
National
Median annual
$59,000
Median hourly
$28.40
Typical range
$46,000 to $78,000
National source: National estimate (to be replaced by live BLS data). Figures are gross pay and vary by location, employer, and experience.
The pay range, visually.
Low end (about the 10th percentile), median, and high end (about the 90th percentile).
By state, at a glance
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Your skills are a business
Ideas we have for people in healthcare.
The same experience that earns a paycheck as a licensed practical nurse (lpn) can start a business. Here are real ideas from our marketplace that fit this field.
Become a Legal Nurse Consultant
Help attorneys decode medical records and evaluate injury and malpractice cases, billing hourly for your nursing expertise.
Start an Independent Private CNA School
Open a standalone, state-approved Certified Nursing Assistant training school, typically owned and directed by an RN with long-term-care experience, charging per-student tuition to feed a documented national CNA shortage.
Become an Independent Utilization Review Consultant
Review cases for medical necessity and level of care as an independent contractor for hospitals, payers, and physician groups, from home, on your license and your judgment.
Start a Pediatric Home Health and Private Duty Nursing Agency
Provide skilled nursing at home for medically complex children (trachs, vents, g-tubes) whose families are drowning without it, in a chronically undersupplied corner of home care.
You could hire licensed practical nurse (lpn)s, not just be one.
We have a staffing calculator to price the work and a full course on how to start a staffing agency, so you can turn a field you already know into a business that puts other people to work.