Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Salt Lake City, UT
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Salt Lake City, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Salt Lake City, UT area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
5,829
Physicians
2,044
Nurse practitioners
1,086
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Salt Lake City metro added 118 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 22 physicians, and 21 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. Scope: Utah side of the Salt Lake City metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Salt Lake City-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
19,230 employed, down 0.6% year over year. Average wages up 2.2% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
38,919 employed across 4,037 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 Utah pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
89 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Salt Lake City area.
0 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.
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Hiring in Salt Lake City?
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.