Hiring/District of Columbia/Healthcare Social Workers

Healthcare Social Workers hiring difficulty in Washington, DC

The public market difficulty score for Healthcare Social Workers in Washington, DC is 6.5 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. This metro has far fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.58 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.706 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. This occupation has no row in the 2025–2035 projections extract used here, so both demand components sit at the bottom of the scale used for occupations that do. At $80,710 a year, the metro median is above the U.S. figure of $67,880 and under the District of Columbia median of $94,100 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In District of Columbia, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.5%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 54.5 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). District of Columbia has 10 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.4 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. OEWS counts 2,210 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Washington. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. Washington is number 10 of 80 metros on this site by healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.