Hiring/Pennsylvania/Dental Assistants

Dental Assistants hiring difficulty in Pittsburgh, PA

The public market difficulty score for Dental Assistants in Pittsburgh, PA is 6.0 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. BLS projects 53.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 388.6 thousand employment base in 2025, or 13.6 percent, and employment growth of 7.4 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.81 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 2.032 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. In Pennsylvania, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.7%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 38.5 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). Pennsylvania has 152 designated Dental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.2 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in dental health. The metro median of $47,690 a year is within 3 percent of both the Pennsylvania median of $47,930 and the U.S. median of $48,070 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 2,260 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Pittsburgh. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Pittsburgh sits at rank 20 in this set of 80 metros.