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Physician Assistants hiring difficulty in Pittsburgh, PA

The public market difficulty score for Physician Assistants in Pittsburgh, PA is 4.1 out of 10, in the elevated band. National hiring demand for the occupation is weighed against local pay and local supply. This metro has a thicker supply of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 2.21 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 2.301 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. 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. The metro median is $125,230 a year, under the U.S. median of $135,880 and within 3 percent of the Pennsylvania median of $127,070 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In Pennsylvania, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 3.7%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 38.5 days, near the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). Pennsylvania has 134 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 1.0 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. OEWS counts 2,560 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Pittsburgh. 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, Pittsburgh sits at rank 20 in this set of 80 metros.