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Physician Assistants hiring difficulty in Denver, CO

The public market difficulty score for Physician Assistants in Denver, CO 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 11.5 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 168.9 thousand employment base in 2025, or 6.8 percent, and employment growth of 21.1 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. In Colorado, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.3%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 35.4 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). Colorado has 121 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 2.0 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. This metro has about the same share of these workers as the national mix. The location quotient is 0.98 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.024 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. The metro median of $134,540 a year is within 3 percent of both the Colorado median of $134,540 and the U.S. median of $135,880 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1,650 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Denver. 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, Denver sits at rank 23 in this set of 80 metros.