In 2021 we made an average of $93 a month from Nurses to Riches. In 2025 we launched Map My Pay, our own nurse salary app. Here is how we got from one to the other.
These numbers are from July 2025, when this was first written.
How it started
I launched our YouTube channel in 2021 with zero expectations. There was no team, no roadmap and no fancy tech. It was just me, Monica and a spreadsheet I made to help nurses compare salaries.
We didn’t earn a single dollar for the first six months. By the end of that first year, we averaged just $93 a month.
We kept going anyway. We showed you how much California nurses make. We pulled back the curtain on cost of living and take-home pay. Little by little, it started to build.
How it’s going
Here’s what’s wild to me. In 2024, most of our income came from our online course. We put almost 80% of that income back in to build something bigger.
Two weeks before I wrote this, we launched the Map My Pay app on the Apple App Store. It was already doing better than we expected.
Here is how our income grew each year.
| Year | Monthly income (average) | Big milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $93/month | YouTube monetized and first spreadsheet sold |
| 2022 | $1,200/month | Launched more tools and salary data |
| 2023 | $6,000/month | Released the full course and grew our Skool community |
| 2024 | $20,000+/month | Used earnings to build the app |
| 2025 | App launched | Already earning within the first 2 weeks |
It’s not just me anymore
This time I’m not doing it alone. My cofounder Sumeet is a nurse just like us. Sumeet saw the vision and put in $28,000 of personal income to help build the app.
Between the two of us, we spent about $40,000 from October 2024 to July 2025 to bring Map My Pay to life. You can see where that money went in our breakdown of what it cost to build a nurse app.
Next up: the web version
At launch, the app was iPhone only. We were already working on a web version. Our developer told us it would only cost $2,500 to finish.
The cost was low because we had already built the hard part. We had all the data and the systems behind the app. Think of it like owning the engine and the wiring. We were just adding a second steering wheel so more people could drive it.
We expected the web version to be done in 6 weeks or less.
What this means for you
If you’ve followed us from day one, or you just found us last week, this win is for you too.
It shows you don’t need big investors or a Silicon Valley team to solve problems nurses have. You need a clear mission, open pay info that nurses can use, and a lot of grit.
I don’t know where this goes next. From what I saw in those first 2 weeks, we are on the right track. To see what the app does, read how Map My Pay shows your take-home pay.
Thanks for being here with us.
Your next move
See what you’d take home, then make the move
Map My Pay shows what nurses take home after taxes and rent at 465+ hospitals and in 21,000+ cities. It’s the app I co-founded so you can compare cities before you pack a single box.
The Nurses to Riches Accelerator is the plan Monica and I used to go from $37 an hour in New York to $143 an hour in California: license, city, hospital, and what to do with the money after.
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Written by Jason, RN. I went from $37 an hour in New York to $143 an hour in California and paid off $128K of debt in under a year. I share our numbers in the Nurses to Riches newsletter and on YouTube.