Hiring/South Carolina/Occupational Therapists

Occupational Therapists hiring difficulty in Charleston, SC

Occupational Therapists in Charleston, SC is not scored. OEWS counts 320 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. BLS projects 10.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 169.6 thousand employment base in 2025, or 5.9 percent, and employment growth of 14.8 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.79 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.824 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. In South Carolina, 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 29.9 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median of $98,530 a year is within 3 percent of both the South Carolina median of $101,130 and the U.S. median of $100,330 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 320 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Charleston. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Charleston at rank 74 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.