Exactly 21,780 of the 240,030 nursing professionals employed in California, work in Palm Desert. Between 2006 and 2010, in Palm Desert, there has been a 10% growth in the number of nursing professionals. Overall employment in Palm Desert has also increased.

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As the number of nursing professionals in Palm Desert has grown, salaries for nursing professionals have also increased. In 2010 an average salary of $79,800 per year was earned by nursing professionals in Palm Desert. Four years earlier in 2006, nursing professionals in Palm Desert made an average salary of $67,950 per year. This growth is faster than the salary trend for all careers in Palm Desert.

Palm Desert nursing professionals earn a median yearly salary of $78,540. The 10% of nursing professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $60,570 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately $104,800 per year.

On average nursing professional salaries in Palm Desert are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Palm Desert's nursing professionals are graduates of the only accredited bsn school in the city.

Palm Desert's bsn school offers one bsn degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 105 students graduated from bsn courses.