Hiring/California/Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners hiring difficulty in Bakersfield, CA

Nurse Practitioners in Bakersfield, CA is not scored. OEWS counts 430 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. This metro has far fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.61 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.277 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. 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. The metro median is $165,580 a year, above the U.S. median of $132,300 and within 3 percent of the California median of $168,520 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In California, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.6%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 35.3 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). California has 586 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 1.5 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. OEWS counts 430 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Bakersfield. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Bakersfield at rank 76 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.