Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100.

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6. Where does each tend to work?

To really compare apples to apples you need to compare their actual job titles and not just the fact they are "nurses."

Nurses in a hospital get paid differently than nurses in home health or work in an ALF or with an individual physician office. Even nurses in different areas of the hospital are paid differently. Male nurses may be taking more jobs in places that pay more money. The article even states men are more likely to become nurse anesthetists, which is the highest paid nursing occupation. Those nurses require graduate education, which most female nurses do not stay in school long enough to get.

So it's wrong to compare that kind of nurse to one that works in a nursing home. Two very different career tracks and jobs.

What pisses me off is when people say a blanket statement...like Male nurses make more than female nurses. The nursing profession is large and encompasses many different levels and occupations. The question should be, do male nurses in home health make as much as female nurses in home health? Do male nurse anesthetists make more than female nurse anesthetists?