Acute Care nurse pay in Kentucky
$104,812median posted offer#22 of 43 states for Acute Care
Acute Care nurses in Kentucky are being offered a median $104,812 a year across 7 live postings that state pay — 2% above the national Acute Care median of $102,698. Updated September 10, 2026.
Where does your pay sit in Acute Care in Kentucky?
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Other specialties in Kentucky
- Medical/Surgical 5 postings$111k
- ICU 9 postings$109k
- Travel 7 postings$105k
- Registered Nurses 34 postings$85k
- Hospitals and Health Care 15 postings$84k
- Healthcare Occupations 38 postings$83k
- Nursing Occupations 38 postings$83k
- Patient Care Nursing Occupations 38 postings$83k
Or see all nurse pay in Kentucky (212 postings), or Acute Care pay across every state.
What to do with this
- See the rolesSee open nursing roles in KentuckyEvery posting behind these numbers is a live job you can open and apply to.
- Offer in hand?Run it through the offer reality calculatorTurn it into a full-year number, see what it's worth where you'd live, and compare offers side by side.
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Questions nurses ask
- How much do Acute Care nurses make in Kentucky?
- Across 7 live Acute Care postings in Kentucky that state pay, the median offer is $104,812 a year. The middle half runs $95,102–$117,268, and the top 10% start at $126,557.
- Is Kentucky a good state for Acute Care nurses?
- On posted pay, Kentucky ranks #22 of 43 states for Acute Care. The median there is 2% above the national Acute Care median of $102,698. Pay is one axis — shift, ratios, and cost of living decide whether the job is worth it.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- Midpoint of stated salary ranges on live nursing job postings; values outside $20,000–$800,000/yr treated as parse artifacts and excluded; groups under 5 postings suppressed. Headline figures blend every employment type; `employmentTypes` splits the same postings into staff, travel, PRN and agency bands, each annualized on the posting's own stated terms (weekly travel rates at 52 weeks), so a rate is only ever ranked against its own band. Community-reported figures are anonymous, unverified, and reported separately.