What is a Nursing Assistants Salary?

Answer:
The average yearly salary for a nursing assistant

in the United States is $25,069. As with many professions, experience and certification affects salaries for nursing assistants. For example, a certified nursing assistant (CNA), makes closer to $28,000, almost $3,000 more per year, on average.

Location also makes a difference in pay for nursing assistants. The average hourly wage in California and Pennsylvania is over $11/hour for nursing assistants, while in Georgia and other Southern states, pay can be $9/hour or less. Because of the hard work involved in being a nursing assistant, many nursing assistants and CNAs feel that they should be compensated more fairly.