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The 25 Most Employed Health Care Jobs
Here is a breakdown of the employment numbers for the 25 highest-employed health care support jobs in the US.
The table includes the number of employees working in the US for each health care occupation, as well as the percentage of the US health care workforce those employees made up. Figures are current as of 2007.
|
Occupation |
Employment |
| Nurses |
3,187,580
|
| Administrative support |
2,657,060
|
| Nursing assistants |
1,390,260
|
| Home health care aides |
834,580
|
| Management |
530,800
|
| Physicians and surgeons |
468,000
|
| Medical assistants |
390,000
|
| Cooks and food workers |
306,000
|
| Pharmacy technicians |
301,950
|
| Social workers and social work assistants |
286,000
|
| Dental assistants |
283,680
|
| Clinical lab technicians and technologists |
267,420
|
| Pharmacists |
253,110
|
| Paramedics and EMTs |
201,200
|
| X-ray technologists |
200,370
|
| Medical billing and coding |
197,550
|
| Dental hygienists |
168,600
|
| Physical therapists |
161,850
|
| Occupational therapists |
91,920
|
| Dentists |
89,750
|
| Medical transcriptionists |
86,990
|
| Surgical technologists |
86,000
|
| Physician assistants |
67,160
|
| Physical therapist assistants |
59,120
|
| Ultrasound technologists |
46,770
|
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Figures courtesy of Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
