WalletHub Names Maryland “2021’s Worst State for Nurses” in Recent Report
With nurses working to administer the COVID-19 vaccine while facing continued PPE shortages, and with National Nurses Week kicking off May 6, the personal-finance website, WalletHub, released its report on 2021’s Best & Worst States for Nurses.
The State of Maryland came in at the bottom of the list, coming in just behind Delaware.
Per WalletHub:
In order to help new nursing graduates find the best markets for their profession, WalletHub compared the relative attractiveness of the 50 states across 22 key metrics. The data set ranges from monthly average starting salary for nurses to health-care facilities per capita to nursing-job openings per capita.
Here is how Maryland fared in the categories used to create this report:
The Nursing Market in Maryland (1=Best; 25=Avg.):
- 39th – Monthly Avg. Starting Salary for Nurses (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
- 23rd – Health-Care Facilities per Capita
- 45th – Projected Share of Elderly Population by 2030
- 37th – Nursing-Job Openings per Capita
- 49th – Average Annual Salary for Nurses (Adjusted for Cost of Living)
- 29th – Share of Best Nursing Homes
- 25th – Projected Competition by 2028
- 38th – Avg. Number of Work Hours
For the full report, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-states-for-nurses/4041
Gaithersburg and Silver Spring both cracked the top ten of Wallethub’s “2021 Most & Least Diverse Cities in the U.S.” list again this year. Some will note that Silver Spring and other areas included in the list aren’t technically cities, but many areas listed are census designated places. Germantown comes in just outside of the top ten at 12, while Rockville comes in at 34.
Earlier this year, Wallethub released their “2021’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities in the U.S.” list and Montgomery County also had a strong showing there, but it is unclear as to what changed the rankings in the last few months (Gaithersburg, Germantown, Silver Spring, and Rockville all came in the top seven on that list). WalletHub is a personal finance website that branched into producing research reports and surveys on topics with varying degrees of relevance to personal finance.
It combines household diversity and religious diversity with our previous reports on socioeconomic diversity, cultural diversity and economic diversity. WalletHub tallied the scores across the five major diversity categories for 501 of the largest cities across 13 metrics.
