Hiring/Louisiana/Psychiatric Technicians

Psychiatric Technicians hiring difficulty in Baton Rouge, LA

The public market difficulty score for Psychiatric Technicians in Baton Rouge, LA is 4.3 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 1.81 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.827 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. BLS projects 17.0 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 161.5 thousand employment base in 2025, or 10.5 percent, and employment growth of 22.3 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. The metro median is $32,010 a year, under the U.S. median of $45,130 and within 3 percent of the Louisiana median of $31,440 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). Louisiana has 173 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 3.8 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. 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). OEWS counts 750 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Baton Rouge. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Baton Rouge at rank 69 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.