Nursing Salaries The objective of this report is to perform some meaningful descriptive statistics to

Nursing Salaries

The objective of this report is to perform some meaningful descriptive statistics to the nursing salaries obtained for 30 states in the United States. The data are obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291111.htm#nat

The purpose of this paper is to gather the mean yearly salary for registered nurses in 30 states that I would like live in, and collect such data for the purpose of performing appropriate descriptive statistics.

The data gathered are shown below:

State	Mean Yearly Salary
Alabama	$57,840
Arizona	$72,340
Arkansas	$56,990
California	$90,860
Colorado	$68,670
Connecticut	$75,850
Florida	$64,020
Georgia	$62,370
Illinois	$67,190
Indiana	$58,410
Kentucky	$60,040
Louisiana	$64,190
Massachusetts	$86,810
Michigan	$65,430
Missouri	$59,620
Nevada	$77,840
New Jersey	$76,460
New Mexico	$66,660
New York	$75,370
North Carolina	$60,960
Ohio	$61,710
Oklahoma	$56,130
Oregon	$77,220
Philadelphia	$67,140
Rhode Island	$72,720
South Carolina	$61,350
Tennessee	$60,660
Texas	$67,580
Virginia	$65,710
Washington	$74,840