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Physician Assistants hiring difficulty in Seattle, WA

Physician Assistants in Seattle, WA is in the hard band, at 7.7 out of 10. The score is demand pressure against the local workforce, not a rarity rank. 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 Washington, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 2.9%, below the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 29.6 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). The metro median is $167,290 a year, above the U.S. median of $135,880 and within 3 percent of the Washington median of $164,360 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Washington has 219 designated Primary Care shortage-area IDs, 2.8 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in primary care. This metro has fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.88 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.920 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. OEWS counts 1,920 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Seattle. 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, Seattle sits at rank 16 in this set of 80 metros.