Exactly 38,570 of the 438,680 nursing professionals employed in California, work in Palm Desert. The number of nursing professionals in Palm Desert has grown by 16% from 2006 to 2010. Overall employment in Palm Desert has also increased.

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In Palm Desert, salaries for nursing professionals have increased. In 2010 an average salary of $64,050 per year was earned by nursing professionals in Palm Desert. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for nursing professionals in Palm Desert was $62,516 per year. The growth in the salary of nursing professionals in Palm Desert is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Nursing professionals in Palm Desert make a median yearly salary of $60,580. The difference in pay between the nursing professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 105%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $43,046 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $88,358 per year.

Palm Desert nursing professionals have earnings that are lower than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.

There is only one accredited nursing school in the city. Many of Palm Desert's nursing professionals are graduates of this school.

Palm Desert's nursing schools offer 3 nursing degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 115 students graduated from nursing courses.