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Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists hiring difficulty in Louisville, KY

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists in Louisville, KY lands at 8.2 out of 10, in the hard band of the public market difficulty score. This occupation is a smaller share of jobs in Louisville than it is nationwide. The location quotient is 0.37 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). The metro median is $76,730 a year, under the U.S. median of $103,410 and within 3 percent of the Kentucky median of $77,580 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Kentucky, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.3%, above the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 40.0 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 280 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Louisville. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Louisville at rank 42 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.