SALARY · LICENSED PRACTICAL AND LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSES · OHIO

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses salary in Ohio

If Ohio is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses was $61,950. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$61,950

$30 per hour at the median · That is $2,450 (3.8 percent) below the national median of $64,400 for this occupation.

$62,020Mean annual salary
$30Mean hourly wage
$39,900People employed in this job in Ohio

Salary range

25th: $56,860Median: $61,95075th: $65,900
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$56,860
Median (50th percentile)$61,950
75th percentile$65,900
Mean$62,020

The middle half of workers earned from $56,860 to $65,900 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$50,697 a year
$4,225 a month
Federal tax $5,254 · FICA $4,739 · State tax $1,260

Caveat: the Ohio Department of Taxation 2026 IT 1040 instructions booklet was not retrieved. Verification rests on enacted law plus the Legislative Service Commission tax year 2026 table, not on a Department booklet.

Ohio municipal income taxes and school district taxes are separate, location specific, and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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