What Nurse Practitioners earn in Collin County, TX
According to the latest federal wage data for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area, the median pay for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX is $130,980 a year, or $62.97 an hour. After federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare (and no state income tax), the paycheck shrinks to $100,458 a year, and rent, food and energy take another bite. The sections below walk through each step with the actual math for Collin County, TX.
The mean wage is $130,280, which is 0.5% below the median, so pay is spread fairly evenly. The survey counts about 7,310 people working in this occupation across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area, so the estimate rests on a substantial pool of workers. Collin County, TX has roughly 1,163,337 residents, according to the population figures used by the rent data.
The salary range, from entry level to top earners
Pay for Nurse Practitioners in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area is not one number. The lowest-paid tenth of workers earn up to $93,690 a year ($45.04 an hour), while the highest-paid tenth earn $162,950 or more ($78.34 an hour). That is a gap of $69,260 between the bottom and the top of the scale. The middle half of workers falls between $102,120 at the 25th percentile and $155,580 at the 75th percentile. A top-tier earner makes 1.7 times what someone at the bottom makes, so experience, certification and employer all matter.
What the hourly rate looks like
Converted to an hourly wage, the median for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX is $62.97. A full-time schedule of 40 hours for 52 weeks adds up to $130,980, and the same salary is $10,915 a month before taxes or about $5,038 per biweekly pay period. After taxes the same job pays $48.30 per hour of take-home income, which is the number that actually has to cover rent and groceries.
About this occupation: Nurse Practitioners
The U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET database describes the work of Nurse Practitioners this way: "Diagnose and treat acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team. May focus on health promotion and disease prevention. May order, perform, or interpret diagnostic tests such as lab work and x rays. May prescribe medication. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education."
Core tasks recorded by O*NET include: "Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances"; "Schedule follow-up visits to monitor patients or evaluate health or illness care"; "Counsel patients about drug regimens and possible side effects or interactions with other substances, such as food supplements, over-the-counter (OTC) medications, or herbal remedies"; "Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays)".
Job outlook for Nurse Practitioners
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects national employment in this occupation to grow from 336,300 jobs in 2025 to 474,100 in 2035, a change of +41%, faster than the 3.5% projected for all occupations. The projection counts 29,400 openings a year on average, including positions created by growth and positions left by workers who retire or move to another occupation; that equals 8.7% of current employment each year.
Typical entry-level education: master's degree. BLS lists a national median annual wage of $132,300 for this occupation; the Collin County, TX median of $130,980 is 1.0% below it.
How pay in Collin County, TX compares
Compared with the Texas average
Pay for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX is in line with the statewide figure: $130,980 locally against an employment-weighted Texas average of $131,113, a difference of only $133 (0.1%). Within Texas, Collin County, TX already has the highest median we track for this job.
Compared with the national average
The national employment-weighted average for Nurse Practitioners is $135,755 across the contiguous United States. At $130,980, Collin County, TX pays $4,775 less, which is 3.5% below that benchmark. Keep in mind that a higher salary only helps if living costs do not rise faster, which is why the cost sections below matter as much as the headline number.
Where this job ranks in Collin County, TX
Among the 627 occupations with published wages in Collin County, TX, Nurse Practitioners ranks number 48 by median pay, ahead of about 92% of them. The best-paying occupation we track here is Computer and Information Systems Managers at $173,810 a year, which is $42,830 more than the median for Nurse Practitioners.
From gross pay to take-home pay
A salary of $130,980 does not arrive in full. We model a single filer with wage income only, the standard deduction and tax-year 2025 rules, and we keep the three tax layers apart: federal income tax, FICA (Social Security and Medicare) and state income tax. Together they take $30,522 a year, which leaves $100,458, or $8,371 a month.
Put another way, of every $100 earned, about $23 goes to taxes and $77 reaches the paycheck. The overall effective tax rate is 23.3%.
Federal income tax
After the $15,750 standard deduction, taxable income is $115,230. Federal brackets are marginal, so only the slice of income above each threshold is taxed at the higher rate; the last dollars of this salary fall in the 24% bracket. The resulting federal income tax is $20,502, an effective 15.7% of gross pay, well below the 24% marginal rate because the lower brackets are cheaper.
Social Security and Medicare (FICA)
Payroll taxes are a flat percentage of wages. Social Security takes 6.2% up to a wage base of $176,100, which costs $8,121 on this salary. Medicare takes 1.45%, or $1,899. FICA totals $10,020, which is 7.6% of gross pay.
State income tax in Texas
There is no state income tax on wages in Texas, which means Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX keep the full $100,458 left after federal and payroll taxes. For scale, a hypothetical flat 5% state tax on this salary would cost about $6,549 a year, so the absence of a state tax is worth roughly $546 a month.
A cross-check with IRS data for Collin County, TX
IRS Statistics of Income data for Collin County, TX show an average adjusted gross income of $132,290 per return and an average effective federal income tax rate of 16.2% across all filers. Filers in the $100,000 to under $200,000 bracket, where this salary falls, paid an average of 11.4%, compared with the 15.7% estimated here for a single filer taking the standard deduction. Gaps between the two reflect filing status, dependents, credits and other income, none of which a single-person wage estimate includes.
Cost of living in Collin County, TX
Take-home pay only means something next to what life costs. We price four basics for one adult in Collin County, TX: a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline. All of them are converted to annual figures first, then compared with the $100,458 of take-home pay.
Rent
The HUD Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Collin County, TX is $1,536 a month, or $18,432 a year. A two-bedroom costs $1,807 a month. For Nurse Practitioners, a one-bedroom absorbs 18.4% of take-home pay and 14.1% of gross pay.
Food
The USDA Thrifty Food Plan (August 2026) puts the cost of a nutritious home-cooked diet for an adult at about $3,436 a year, which is $286 a month or $66.07 a week. That equals 2.6% of gross pay for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX. It is a thrifty budget with no restaurant meals, so treat it as a floor.
Energy and gasoline
Using Texas residential prices from the Energy Information Administration and national household averages for consumption, electricity costs about $1,578 a year and other home energy such as natural gas about $719, for $2,297 in total. Gasoline in Texas averages $2.88 per gallon; at about 463 gallons a year (11,106 miles at 24 miles per gallon) fuel adds $1,334.
What is left over
Add the four basics together and living costs come to $25,499 a year, 25% of take-home pay. That leaves $74,959 a year, or $6,247 a month, for savings, transportation beyond fuel, health care, debt and everything else. That margin equals 57.2% of gross pay, a comfortable cushion by common budgeting rules.
Local housing and commute data for Collin County, TX
The budget above covers rent, food, energy and gasoline. Three more local facts shape what a paycheck buys in Collin County, TX: property taxes, housing prices and the daily commute. The figures below are exact U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates for Collin County, TX, set beside the Texas and national medians.
Property taxes in Collin County, TX
Homeowners in Collin County, TX pay a median of $7,521 a year in real estate taxes, 78% above the Texas median of $4,232 and 141% above the U.S. median of $3,119. Against a median home value of $475,600, the median tax bill is 1.58% of that value (the ratio of the two county medians). For a worker paid the local Nurse Practitioners median of $130,980, a tax bill of that size would equal 5.7% of gross pay, which matters for anyone planning to buy rather than rent.
Rents, home prices and household income in Collin County, TX
Renters in Collin County, TX pay a median gross rent of $1,859 a month in the Census survey, 33% above the Texas median of $1,403. HUD's Fair Market Rent for a one-bedroom apartment, which this site uses in the budget, is $1,536 a month; the two measures differ because the Census figure covers units of every size that renters already occupy, while the HUD figure is a one-bedroom benchmark. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $475,600, 68% above the Texas median of $283,800. Median household income is $121,600, 55% above the Texas median of $78,476, so a year of one-bedroom Fair Market Rent equals 15.2% of that income.
Commuting in Collin County, TX
Workers in Collin County, TX who travel to a workplace spend an average of 28.2 minutes each way, 6% above the Texas average of 26.7. For someone who commutes five days a week, that is 4.7 hours of round-trip travel every week, a cost the budget does not price. 27.5% of workers in Collin County, TX work from home, compared with 15.1% nationally, which removes the commute for them.
Can Nurse Practitioners afford to live in Collin County, TX?
The 30% rent guideline
A common rule of thumb says rent should stay under 30% of gross income. For a gross salary of $130,980 that ceiling is $3,275 a month. The one-bedroom Fair Market Rent of $1,536 is $1,739 under it, so rent fits the guideline. Put as a wage, covering a one-bedroom at the 30% guideline takes $29.54 an hour; the median for Nurse Practitioners is $62.97, which is 113% above that mark. Another way to see it: at $48.30 of take-home pay an hour, a one-bedroom takes about 7.3 working hours every week.
Splitting a two-bedroom
Sharing a two-bedroom at $1,807 a month means $904 each. Compared with renting a one-bedroom alone, that saves $7,590 a year. With a roommate, the yearly margin after the basics becomes $82,549.
How fast you can save
At $6,247 a month of margin, building a $10,000 emergency fund would take about 2 months. Setting aside half of the margin stretches the same goal to about 4 months. These figures ignore interest, raises and any spending beyond the four basics.
Frequently asked questions about Nurse Practitioners pay in Collin County, TX
What is the hourly wage for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX?
The median is $62.97 per hour, based on $130,980 a year over 2,080 hours. Hourly pay runs from about $45.04 at the 10th percentile to $78.34 at the 90th percentile.
What is the take-home pay for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX?
After federal income tax, FICA, the median salary of $130,980 becomes $100,458 a year. That is $8,371 a month, $3,864 every two weeks or $1,932 a week.
What percentage of pay goes to taxes for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX?
Total taxes are $30,522 a year, an effective rate of 23.3%: $20,502 federal income tax, $10,020 FICA and no Texas income tax.
Is pay for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX above the Texas average?
It is about the same. The local median of $130,980 is within 0.1% of the Texas average of $131,113.
Is a one-bedroom rent affordable on the median Nurse Practitioners salary in Collin County, TX?
A one-bedroom costs $1,536 a month against take-home pay of $8,371, which is 18.3% of take-home pay. That meets the 30%-of-gross guideline, which allows up to $3,275 a month.
How much is left after rent, food and energy for Nurse Practitioners in Collin County, TX?
About $6,247 a month ($74,959 a year) remains after a one-bedroom apartment, food, home energy and gasoline, which together cost $25,499 a year.
What hourly wage covers a one-bedroom in Collin County, TX at the 30% guideline?
$29.54 an hour for a full-time schedule, calculated as the $18,432 annual rent divided by 0.30 and by 2,080 hours. The median for Nurse Practitioners is $62.97.
How we calculated these numbers
Wages are May 2025 medians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan area; hourly-only values are annualized at 2,080 hours. Rents are HUD Fair Market Rents, food costs come from the USDA Thrifty Food Plan, and energy prices come from the Energy Information Administration. County-level tax statistics come from the IRS Statistics of Income.
Taxes use tax-year 2025 federal brackets, FICA rates and the Texas rules for a single filer with wage income only. Figures are estimates for planning and comparison, not tax or financial advice, and they exclude local income taxes, benefits, retirement contributions and individual circumstances.