5 hardest-to-fill healthcare jobs in Nevada

A hiring manager covering Nevada should start in Las Vegas. Nurse Practitioners scores 7.8 (hard) and the metro pays about $144.1K, 9% above the national median.

The bench in Las Vegas is the quiet part of the score: about a third fewer of these workers than a typical metro, with 1.220 jobs per 1,000.

After the lead search, Nevada still has Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses in Las Vegas at 7.1 (hard).

Hard-band pressure covers this Nevada list.

December 2025 put all-industry openings in Nevada at 3.1 for the hiring list.

The national figure was 4.0.

For the hiring list, Nevada came in under.

Each occupation and metro

Ranked table

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

Takeaways

• Las Vegas pays Nurse Practitioners about $144.1K, 9% above the national median.
• That Las Vegas search scores 7.8, hard band.
• For Nurse Practitioners, Las Vegas has about a third fewer of these workers than a typical metro.
• Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses in Las Vegas closes the Nevada list at 7.1.

For recruiters

• Staff Nurse Practitioners in Las Vegas, NV first.
• Use the Nevada rows under the lead as backups.

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 Nevada 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 Nevada total-nonfarm job openings rate for December 2025 is 3.1. The U.S. rate is 4.0. Both are all-industry JOLTS rates. Rounded figures in the prose: $144,060 is stated as about $144.1K. a comparison of 1.09 is stated as 9 percent. $132,300 is stated as about $132.3K.

Sources

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