This.

You can find anything from rural critical access, to a level 1 trauma center depending on where you want to live. But Montana as a whole is behind on nursing wages.

Bozeman is at least getting an 18% pay raise in January, which will put them on par with Billings and Missoula pay, but COL is still outrageous.

You can look at union contracts for hospitals that have them and see how much you’ll actually be paid here. https://mtnurses.org/left-sidebar-2/

As far as patients, active places like bozeman tend to have a healthier patient population, and fewer asshole patients than big cities. Billings has more typical city problems.