New grad RN jobs and nurse residency programs in Nevada

A quarter of Nevada RNs earn less than $41.76 an hour ($86,850 a year) and half earn more than $49.84. First-year offers tend to sit near the lower figure, since hospital pay scales usually rise with experience.

That puts Nevada 9th of the 50 states and DC for median RN pay.

Pay is spread out in Nevada: $8.08 an hour separates the 25th percentile from the median, a wider gap than in most states.

Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas employs 20,410 RNs, 75% of the state's total, so most RN jobs in Nevada are there.

When people search for new grad RN jobs in Nevada, the places they name most often are Las Vegas, Reno and Henderson.

The Nevada State Board of Nursing licenses RNs in Nevada.

Nevada is not in the Nurse Licensure Compact, so you need a Nevada license to work here whatever license you hold elsewhere. If you studied in another state, you can apply to the Nevada State Board of Nursing for licensure by examination and take the NCLEX for Nevada directly, or pass in your school's state and apply here by endorsement afterward.

Arizona, Idaho and Utah, next door, are compact states, which matters if you might live on one side of the line and work on the other.

Yes, with conditions. On request, the board can grant a first-time test taker an interim permit once it has your application and proof of graduation. You work as a graduate nurse in Nevada only, for 90 days or until the board receives your result, whichever comes first.

Source: Nevada State Board of Nursing, RN and LPN exam instructions, read October 2026. The permit makes it legal; whether you can use it depends on the employer, since not every hospital starts graduate nurses before they are licensed. Ask the recruiter.

29 of the 50 states and DC allow something like this, each with its own limits. See every state's rule.

1,811 of the 2,052 first-time, U.S.-educated candidates who took the NCLEX-RN for Nevada in 2025 passed: 88.3%, 1.6 points above the national rate of 86.7%.

Against the 7 new-grad programs we track here, that is about 293 new test takers per program, well above the national figure of about 114. Part of that is how few programs we track here, so look at new-grad RN jobs outside residencies as well.

The exam is the same everywhere; the rate tells you about the graduates who tested here, not about your own chances. See pass rates in every state.

Among its neighboring states, California both pays RNs the most (a median of $140,270) and has the most new-grad programs on our list (266).