Director of Nursing Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

CaregiverHires had 1,201 open director of nursing listings from 208 employers on November 6, 2026.

285 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 718 in the previous 30 days.

The benefit director of nursing listings named most often on November 6, 2026 was health insurance, in 63.4% of listings, followed by paid time off (60.8%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all director of nursing listings.

BLS publishes no director of nursing-only wage, so the figure here is for medical and health services managers in nursing care facilities (SOC 11-9111, NAICS 623100), a broad management group used only as a labelled proxy, because BLS has no director of nursing occupation.

The median wage for that occupation was $105,550 a year in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Medical and Health Services Managers (SOC 11-9111) in Nursing Care Facilities (NAICS 623100), May 2025 (proxy)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $95,880 to $129,220 a year.

Employers hiring directors of nursing on CaregiverHires advertise a median of $102,500 a year across 67 employers on November 6, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

Texas had the most open director of nursing listings on November 6, 2026, with 83 (6.9% of the national total).

Florida followed with 81 (6.7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with director of nursing openings in Texas.

208 employers had open director of nursing listings on CaregiverHires on November 6, 2026, and the five largest posted 26.3% of them.

109 employers (52.4%) had exactly one open director of nursing listing.

BLS has no director of nursing occupation; it counts directors of nursing in a management role within medical and health services managers (SOC 11-9111), a broad group with 597,080 payroll jobs at a median of $123,860 a year in May 2025, including 158,730 managers in general medical and surgical hospitals (BLS OEWS).

Within that group, median pay in May 2025 was $105,550 a year in skilled nursing facilities, $101,830 in home health care services and $92,340 in continuing care retirement communities and assisted living (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

Federal rules require every nursing home to designate a full-time registered nurse as director of nursing and to have an RN on duty at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 days a week, unless waived (42 CFR 483.35, as of 2026).

BLS projects the medical and health services manager group to grow 24.2% from 2025 to 2035 with about 62,300 openings a year; the projection covers the whole group, not directors of nursing alone (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid director of nursing listing on CaregiverHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all director of nursing jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no director of nursing occupation. The pay figure on this page is for medical and health services managers (SOC 11-9111) in nursing care facilities (NAICS 623100), a broad management group shown only as a labelled proxy; the group's all-industry figures also count hospital and clinic managers. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed.