5 hardest-to-fill healthcare jobs in Nebraska

Medical Assistants in Omaha is the tight conversation in Nebraska. Score 7.7 is hard-band pressure, on pay of about $48.0K, 5% above the national median.

Supply is only a modifier in Omaha, where the bench is barely half as many of these workers as a typical metro, the mix figure is 0.53, and jobs per 1,000 are 2.805.

Nurse Practitioners in Omaha closes the Nebraska cut at 6.9, elevated band.

Count the hard-band rows in Nebraska and you get four.

All-industry openings in Nebraska ran 3.5 for December 2025 when the brief is the hiring list.

The national figure was 4.0.

For the hiring list, Nebraska came in under.

Each occupation and metro

Ranked table

Swipe the table sideways. The same figures are in the blocks above.

Takeaways

• Staff Medical Assistants in Omaha ahead of the other Nebraska rows. The score is 7.7.
• Pay in Omaha is about $48.0K, against a national median of about $45.7K.
• Jobs per 1,000 for Medical Assistants in Omaha are 2.805.
• The closing Nebraska row is Nurse Practitioners in Omaha, at 6.9.

For recruiters

• Start with Omaha, NE before the other rows.
• Name Omaha, NE in the first line of the posting.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

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Methodology

The five rows are the five recruiting occupations on the hiring grid whose best scored metro page in Nebraska has the highest score. A state with fewer than five scored recruiting occupations is omitted. Pages under 500 local workers are not scored and are not eligible. A metro page is scored only when OEWS employment for that occupation is at least 500. Below that, the page stays up and is left off this ranking. Postsecondary teaching occupations and medical scientists are left off even when they are scored. Nominal weights, before a missing shortage match is rescaled, are projected openings divided by 2025 employment 18%, projected growth 22%, the metro median divided by the U.S. median 40%, how common the occupation is locally compared with the country 8% (the location-quotient column; a lower figure means a thinner local bench), a matching HRSA shortage designation 8%, and statewide all-industry JOLTS for December 2025 4%. Bands are Standard under 4, Elevated from 4 up to 7, and Hard at 7 and above. The Nebraska total-nonfarm job openings rate for December 2025 is 3.5. The U.S. rate is 4.0. Both are all-industry JOLTS rates. Rounded figures in the prose: $48,010 is stated as about $48.0K. a comparison of 1.05 is stated as 5 percent. $45,690 is stated as about $45.7K.

Sources

• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics · May 2025
• BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, total nonfarm · December 2025