Hiring/South Carolina/Speech-Language Pathologists

Speech-Language Pathologists hiring difficulty in Greenville, SC

Speech-Language Pathologists in Greenville, SC is not scored. OEWS counts 330 jobs in this occupation here, which is under the 500-worker floor, so the page says: Too few workers locally to score reliably. This metro has far fewer of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 0.65 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 0.764 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. BLS projects 12.5 thousand openings a year for this occupation on a 193.4 thousand employment base in 2025, or 6.5 percent, and employment growth of 16.6 percent from 2025 to 2035. Those two national figures are the same in every metro for this occupation. The metro median is $88,610 a year, under the U.S. median of $97,870 and within 3 percent of the South Carolina median of $90,530 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In South Carolina, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 29.9 days, shorter than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 330 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Greenville. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Greenville at rank 67 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.