Salary Data is Messy: What 10,000+ PMHNP Job Posts Say About DNP vs MSN (+$10–20K?)

I run PMHNP Hiring, a niche job board that aggregates 500+ sources daily. One question I kept seeing (and had to model in data): does a DNP actually pay more than an MSN for PMHNP roles, or is it just extra tuition and time? Here's the honest ROI math I built into my salary normalization pipeline. Salary Data is Messy: What 10,000+ PMHNP Job Posts Say About DNP vs MSN (+$10–20K?) I didn’t set out to become a part-time salary-format archaeologist. I just wanted to build a clean PMHNP job board. Then I started aggregating listings. PMHNP Hiring pulls from 500+ sources daily and maintains 10,000+ active PMHNP jobs across all 50 states . Once you have that much job data, you can’t avoid the DNP vs MSN question—because employers encode it in the messiest ways possible: “DNP preferred” (no pay mention) “Doctorate differential” (no amount) “$65–$90/hr depending on degree + experience” “$130k–$180k (MSN) / $140k–$195k (DNP)” The headline people want is simple: DNP tends to show ~+$10–20K/year