68C MOS (Practical Nursing Specialist): 14 civilian careers O*NET links to it, with pay.
The civilian occupations O*NET's Military Crosswalk relates to Army 68C, each with its BLS median pay and a TryHired career page where we have one.
68C is the Army enlisted military occupational specialty Practical Nursing Specialist. O*NET's Military Crosswalk links it to 14 civilian occupations. Among the civilian ones with a BLS wage, the May 2025 national median ranges from $42,260 (Nursing Assistants) to $335,550 (Emergency Medicine Physicians), using broader BLS occupations for some specialties. O*NET gives 11 of them its Bright Outlook designation (occupations expected to grow rapidly, to have many job openings, or that are new and emerging). A crosswalk link is a related occupation, not a guaranteed job or an equivalent license.
Civilian occupations related to 68C Practical Nursing Specialist
In O*NET's order. Pay is the BLS national median annual wage, May 2025. Bright Outlook is O*NET's designation.
| Occupation | O*NET-SOC code | Median pay (BLS, May 2025) | Bright Outlook | TryHired guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurses | 29-1141.00 | $97,550 | Yes | Registered Nurse |
| Acute Care Nurses | 29-1141.01 | $97,550 (BLS: Registered Nurses) | Yes | |
| Critical Care Nurses | 29-1141.03 | $97,550 (BLS: Registered Nurses) | Yes | ICU Nurse |
| Clinical Nurse Specialists | 29-1141.04 | $97,550 (BLS: Registered Nurses) | Yes | Clinical Nurse Specialist |
| Nurse Practitioners | 29-1171.00 | $132,300 | Yes | Nurse Practitioner |
| Emergency Medicine Physicians | 29-1214.00 | $335,550 | Emergency Medicine Physician | |
| Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians | 29-2012.00 | Not published | Medical Lab Technician | |
| Emergency Medical Technicians | 29-2042.00 | $44,470 | Yes | EMT |
| Paramedics | 29-2043.00 | $60,600 | Yes | Paramedic |
| Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses | 29-2061.00 | $64,400 | LPN | |
| Home Health Aides | 31-1121.00 | Not published | Yes | Home Health Aide |
| Nursing Assistants | 31-1131.00 | $42,260 | Yes | CNA |
| Medical Assistants | 31-9092.00 | $45,690 | Yes | Medical Assistant |
| Phlebotomists | 31-9097.00 | $45,230 | Yes | Phlebotomist |
The Defense Manpower Data Center's own record for 68C maps it to: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses.
What a crosswalk match means, and what it doesn't
O*NET's Military Crosswalk Search combines several official sources: the Defense Manpower Data Center's crosswalk of military occupation codes, an enhanced analysis commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor with the Department of Defense under the VOW to Hire Heroes Act, a RAND study of Army knowledge, skills and abilities, and the services' Credentialing Opportunities On-Line (COOL) sites. A listed civilian occupation is one O*NET relates to the military job's training and work. It is not an equivalence, a promise of a job or a statement that you meet the civilian job's requirements: many of these occupations need a state license, a certification or a degree that the military job alone does not provide.
Turning 68C experience into a civilian job
Start with the civilian titles above whose work you already did most of. For each one, check its licensing and certification requirements in your state, then rewrite your service record in that occupation's language: the systems, procedures and results a civilian hiring manager recognizes, not unit names or acronyms.
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Open →Career guideNurse PractitionerTryHired's guide to this career (Nurse Practitioners).
Open →Career guideEmergency Medicine PhysicianTryHired's guide to this career (Emergency Medicine Physicians).
Open →Career guideMedical Lab TechnicianTryHired's guide to this career (Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians).
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How this page is built
The civilian occupations on this page are exactly the ones O*NET OnLine's Military Crosswalk Search returns for the code, in O*NET's order, read on Nov 3, 2026 (O*NET site updated October 6, 2026). Official military titles come from the Defense Manpower Data Center file O*NET distributes. Pay is the BLS national median annual wage for May 2025. Where O*NET lists a specialty that BLS does not survey on its own, the figure is the BLS figure for the broader occupation and is labelled with that occupation's name.
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- Your fit: a crosswalk relates occupations, not people. Your rank, specialty training, clearances and credentials change which civilian jobs fit.
- Pay: national medians for civilian workers in each occupation, not offers and not adjusted for your location or experience.
- U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, O*NET OnLine Military Crosswalk Search, read Nov 3, 2026. Military Crosswalk Search by U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- O*NET Resource Center, Military crosswalk data (source: Defense Manpower Data Center).
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 national estimates (public domain).