Hiring/Ohio/Medical Records Specialists

Medical Records Specialists hiring difficulty in Akron, OH

Medical Records Specialists in Akron, OH is not scored. OEWS counts 390 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. BLS projects 14.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 200.7 thousand employment base in 2025, or 7.0 percent, and employment growth of 7.8 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. In Ohio, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.8%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 47.7 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median is $49,480 a year, under the U.S. median of $51,140 and within 3 percent of the Ohio median of $50,990 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). This metro has about the same share of these workers as the national mix. The location quotient is 0.98 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.231 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. OEWS counts 390 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Akron. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Akron at rank 80 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.