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Psychiatric Technicians hiring difficulty in Richmond, VA

Psychiatric Technicians in Richmond, VA is in the hard band, at 7.6 out of 10. The score is demand pressure against the local workforce, not a rarity rank. 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. In Virginia, 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 49.1 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 0.91 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.923 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. Virginia has 132 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.5 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. The metro median is $48,320 a year, above the U.S. median of $45,130 and within 3 percent of the Virginia median of $48,320 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 610 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Richmond. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Richmond at rank 47 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.