NICU nurse pay in North Carolina
$99,320median posted offer#2 of 2 states for NICU
NICU nurses in North Carolina are being offered a median $99,320 a year across 6 live postings that state pay — 10% below the national NICU median of $110,656. Updated September 10, 2026.
Where does your pay sit in NICU in North Carolina?
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Other specialties in North Carolina
- Nurse Practitioner 12 postings$122k
- Nurse Managers & Supervisors 7 postings$115k
- Operating Room 8 postings$100k
- ER 18 postings$99k
- Telemetry 17 postings$99k
- Emergency Medicine 7 postings$99k
- Trauma 7 postings$99k
- Observation 5 postings$99k
Or see all nurse pay in North Carolina (709 postings), or NICU pay across every state.
What to do with this
- See the rolesSee NICU roles in North CarolinaEvery 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 NICU nurses make in North Carolina?
- Across 6 live NICU postings in North Carolina that state pay, the median offer is $99,320 a year. The middle half runs $95,016–$106,824, and the top 10% start at $112,070.
- Is North Carolina a good state for NICU nurses?
- On posted pay, North Carolina ranks #2 of 2 states for NICU. The median there is 10% below the national NICU median of $110,656. 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.