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Nursing Assistants hiring difficulty in Baton Rouge, LA

Nursing Assistants in Baton Rouge, LA lands at 7.4 out of 10, in the hard band of the public market difficulty score. The metro median is $31,220 a year, under the U.S. median of $42,260 and within 3 percent of the Louisiana median of $30,510 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Louisiana, 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 39.4 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). This occupation's share of jobs in Baton Rouge is close to its share of U.S. jobs. The location quotient is 0.92 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 3,500 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Baton Rouge. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Baton Rouge at rank 69 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.