Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

BehavioralHires had 455 open psychiatric nurse practitioner listings from 30 employers on October 29, 2026.

66 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 161 in the previous 30 days.

At least 17.4% of psychiatric nurse practitioner listings were part-time on October 29, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

39.3% of psychiatric nurse practitioner listings were marked fully remote and 28.6% hybrid on October 29, 2026.

Listings that say nothing about location count as on-site, so these shares are floors.

For remote and hybrid shares across every role, see our remote behavioral health jobs data release.

The benefit psychiatric nurse practitioner listings named most often on October 29, 2026 was 401k Match, in 73.8% of listings, followed by health Insurance (57.6%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all psychiatric nurse practitioner listings.

BLS publishes no psychiatric nurse practitioner wage series; the national median annual wage for nurse practitioners of every specialty was $132,300 in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1171).

Too few psychiatric nurse practitioner listings state pay, or one employer posts most of those that do, to publish a market figure for advertised pay on October 29, 2026.

For the full federal pay breakdown and what it can and cannot tell you, see the psychiatric nurse practitioner salary guide.

For how many listings state pay at all, including pay written only in the description, see our pay transparency data release.

30 employers had open psychiatric nurse practitioner listings on BehavioralHires on October 29, 2026, and the five largest posted 73% of them.

10 employers (33.3%) had exactly one open psychiatric nurse practitioner listing.

The largest single employer, LifeStance Health, posted 32.3% of all psychiatric nurse practitioner listings, so this sample leans toward large behavioral health groups.

In the AANP 2024 NP Compensation Report, nurse practitioners certified in psychiatric-mental health reported a median total income of $140,000 for 2023 (full-time respondents, n = 394).

BLS counted 323,040 nurse practitioner jobs of all specialties in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1171).

Offices of mental health practitioners, outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers and residential facilities employed 11,230 nurse practitioners in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry tables).

For what the shortage projections and hiring data mean for employers, see our behavioral health hiring market guide.

For how to enter the field, see the psychiatric nurse practitioner career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid psychiatric nurse practitioner listing on BehavioralHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all psychiatric nurse practitioner jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than two thirds of them.

Third-party figures are quoted as published, with the source and year in each sentence.

Where BLS has no occupation for a job title, federal pay is given separately for each occupation the title falls under, never averaged into one number.

BLS counts nurse practitioners as one occupation with no psychiatric split, so the federal figures on this page describe all nurse practitioners.