Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Urban Honolulu, HI
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Urban Honolulu, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Urban Honolulu, HI area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.
Provider supply
Who practices in Urban Honolulu today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Urban Honolulu, HI area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
4,505
Physicians
1,002
Nurse practitioners
369
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Urban Honolulu metro added 62 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 68 physicians, and 8 physician assistants to the registry. New physician enrollments kept pace with advanced-practice growth over the period.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Hawaii side of the Urban Honolulu metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Urban Honolulu-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
13,800 employed, down 1.6% year over year. Average wages up 5.8% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
25,835 employed across 2,687 sites.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See Hawaii pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
32 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Urban Honolulu area.
1 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in Urban Honolulu?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the local market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.