Hiring/Louisiana/Physician Assistants

Physician Assistants hiring difficulty in New Orleans, LA

Physician Assistants in New Orleans, LA is not scored. OEWS counts 400 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 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. Louisiana has 178 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 3.9 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. 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 metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.87 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.906 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. Metro median pay is $124,580 a year, under both the Louisiana median of $128,870 and the U.S. median of $135,880 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 400 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for New Orleans. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places New Orleans at rank 58 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.