Julian Knight
Did you know Tennessee has the second lowest cost-of-living in the country? Combine that with a mid-level ranking for average annual income, and NPs can have it pretty good here. While the well-being score is lower, Tennessee also ranks second in the prominence of NP jobs in the work force.
South Dakota sits comfortably in the mid-range of cost-of-living, average annual income, and job prominence for NPs. What pushes this state into our number two spot is it's very high well-being ranking. Residents here have the third highest well-being in the nation.
Nurse practitioners in Alaska can balance out the high cost-of-living with the highest average annual income in the nation. A mid-level ranking of NP job prominence hardly seems worth noting next to the state's #1 ranking on the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Report.
