Healthcare Employment

1. Healthcare Labor Statistics

Understanding healthcare employment trends provides a "bird's-eye view" of the industry's direction. As clinicians, we often focus solely on our own specialties. This page aims to make broader workforce data accessible, enabling us to grasp the bigger picture of rapidly evolving healthcare staffing patterns.

By understanding which categories of healthcare professionals are growing or declining, we can better collaborate across disciplines and adapt to changing needs.

Options for the Charts

2. Physicians

  • Year 2004 counts ~160k physicians, suggesting data capture issues in the past.
  • Notable dip during COVID-19 years, 2019 and 2020.
  • Office of Physicians (NAICS 621100) has a noticeable increase since 2021.
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

3. Registered Nurses

  • Steady uptrend from 2002 to 2023
  • "Change"(?) of NAICS coding from Nursing Care Facilities to Outpatient Care Centers
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

4. Nurse Practioners

  • 2.5x number of increase in Nurse Practioners from 2012-2023.
  • Increase across all NAICS industry classifications.
  • Office of Physicians is largest group.
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

5. Nurse Assistants

  • Steady-to-recent decline in Nursing Assistant (31-1014, 31-1131) occupation
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

6. Physician Assistants

  • More than 2x growth of number of Physician Assistants from 2002 to 2023
  • Mostly in Office of Physicians but growing in Hospitals and Outpatient Care Centers
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

7. CRNA

  • CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist) numbers steadily increased since 2012
Bureau of Labor Stats: Detailed Link

References

Feel free to explore Occupation Explorer (also can click on the menu) which allows your to pick and choose and generation your own OCC and NAICS group trends.

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