Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Pennsylvania
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Pennsylvania, grounded in the market's real numbers.
We track Pennsylvania's provider workforce 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 Pennsylvania today
Individual providers with an active Pennsylvania practice address, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
56,187
Physicians
17,105
Nurse practitioners
12,337
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, Pennsylvania added 891 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 763 physicians, and 719 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026.
Demand
Employment is growing on both sides of the market
Federal quarterly employment data for Pennsylvania healthcare employers.
Hospitals
281,181 employed, up 0.1% year over year. Average wages up 2.8% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
393,648 employed across 27,534 sites, and the site count itself is up 3.9% year over year: more locations competing for the same clinicians.
Source: BLS QCEW, statewide, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Compensation
What Pennsylvania pays
Mean annual wages from the federal occupational employment survey. Offers below these lines explain their own vacancy.
| Role | Employed in Pennsylvania | Mean annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| Family medicine physicians | 4,190 | $298,410 |
| Nurse practitioners | 10,670 | $132,070 |
| Physician assistants | 9,020 | $125,160 |
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025 estimates.
Shortage pressure
337 federally designated primary care shortage areas in Pennsylvania.
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, and every open req is competing with 337 other designated areas for the same clinicians. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in Pennsylvania?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.