Hiring/California/Phlebotomists

Phlebotomists hiring difficulty in San Jose, CA

Phlebotomists in San Jose, CA is not scored. OEWS counts 350 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 0.34 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.309 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. BLS projects 18.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 143.9 thousand employment base in 2025, or 12.5 percent, and employment growth of 6.8 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. Metro median pay for this occupation is $60,600 a year, above the California median of $56,040 and above the U.S. median of $45,230 (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). OEWS counts 350 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for San Jose. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. On healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations, San Jose sits at rank 27 in this set of 80 metros.