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Nurse Practitioners hiring difficulty in Austin, TX

The public market difficulty score for Nurse Practitioners in Austin, TX is 5.7 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. BLS projects 29.4 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 336.3 thousand employment base in 2025, or 8.7 percent, and employment growth of 41.0 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. Texas has 411 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 1.3 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. The metro median is $128,050 a year, under the U.S. median of $132,300 and within 3 percent of the Texas median of $131,670 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Texas, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 36.8 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). This metro has about the same share of these workers as the national mix. The location quotient is 1.01 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 2.088 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. OEWS counts 2,700 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). Healthcare workplaces in the metro (all provider types): the extract holds 1,292 organization records with a practice ZIP in this metro (retrieved September 28, 2026). That count is the same for every role in Austin. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, Austin sits at rank 36 in this set of 80 metros.