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Medical Records Specialists hiring difficulty in Portland, OR

Portland, OR scores 3.3 out of 10 for Medical Records Specialists, in the standard band of the public market difficulty score. Metro median pay for this occupation is $61,890 a year, above the Oregon median of $59,000 and above the U.S. median of $51,140 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). This occupation's share of jobs in Portland is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 0.89 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Oregon, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.5%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 31.3 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 1,340 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Portland. 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, Portland sits at rank 33 in this set of 80 metros.