11 Highest Paying Nursing Specialties

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1. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

Median Salary: $ 134,000

The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist tops our list of the highest paying nursing specialties! Your job as a CRNA is to ease the pain of an operation or surgery. You either make the body area numb or you let the patient sleep during the operation. It is one of the in-demand jobs of 2015, to be exact. The minimum educational requirement to be a certified registered nurse anesthetist is a master’s degree. So, if you’re undecided of the next path to take, consider being a CRNA to help severely ill patients feel less pain.

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