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Physician assistant certification (PA-C)
Two to three years of graduate study for pay that sits in the top tenth of US occupations — and one of the highest shares of credential holders actually employed in the work anywhere on this site.
Pa gen okenn valè koute verifye.
Yon mwa de fòmasyon, tan plen. Tan pati pran plis tan.
Pa gen peryòd ranbousman — pa gen okenn montan pou peye. Priyorite a se anba a.
Si pa gen okenn chif ki anwo a ka verifye nou pa pibliye okenn pi plis pase yon estimasyon.
Poukisa pa gen okenn chif koute isit la
No cost figure appears here, and the reason is the same one that blocks the radiography page. Federal programme data is published at four-digit granularity, and physician assistant studies sits inside CIP 51.09 alongside athletic training, anaesthesiologist assistant programmes and several other master's level allied-health courses. The blended figure runs to roughly $109,000 in federal loans at the median, and it is a figure about a group of programmes rather than about this one, so we do not present it as the price of becoming a PA. The outcome data below comes from that same shared code and is labelled accordingly.
Two to three years of full-time graduate study after a bachelor's degree and, at most programmes, a substantial number of documented patient-care hours before admission. The PANCE examination follows.
Certification runs ten years, with 100 hours of continuing medical education every two years and a recertification examination.
Ki kantite moun ki gen sak ki kantite moun ki travay nan jaden an
Nimewo ki pa nan figi salè a
Nan 201,038 board-certified physician assistants Konte nan 2025, Resansman 2010 la 162,150 travay nan travay li se pou yo — 80.7%. Ki kite 38,888 detèktè li pa kont pou.
Sa a se yon limit anwo, pa yon pousantaj desans. Te gen yon kredi se pa menm bagay la kòm chèche pou travay ak li. Gap la gen tout moun ki te deplase nan jesyon, edikasyon, lavant, enspeksyon oswa yon travay ki gen rapò ke dosye done federal anba yon lòt ocupación; tout moun ki te retire oswa kite san yo pa remèt kredi; tout moun ki travay part-time, ajans oswa travay pou tèt yo nan yon fason ke sondaj emplois pa capture; ak tout moun ki te gen li kòm yon dezyèm string pou yon lòt travay. Se konsa, gap la se plafon an sou ki jan anpil moun ki gen eksperyans pa ap travay nan domèn sa a - figi a reyèl se pi ba, e li pa yon kont de nenpòt moun ki se san travay. Ki sa ki pare a fè etabli se gwosè a nan pisin lan ki pibliye figi a peye se silans sou, ki se bagay la pa peye sit wèb montre ou.
De pati yo se kont ki rete. Detentè sou yon dat kont travay nan yon peryòd — menm kalite kantite lajan, ki se sèl rezon ki fè de ka divize nan tout.
Ki sa ki gen ladan kont la: People holding current NCCPA board certification on that date, whether or not they are practising. 731 of them have addresses outside the United States or at military installations. It is not the cumulative figure NCCPA also publishes — more than 231,000 people have been certified since 1975 — because most of the difference is retirement and lapse, and using it would overstate the pool. Certification is not the same as a state licence, but every state requires it or accepts it as the basis for one.
Denominatè: board-certified physician assistants = 201,038 (Standing count of people holding the credential, as at 31 December 2025) · NCCPA, 2025 Statistical Profile of Board Certified PAs · View
One of the tightest pairings on the site. The remainder is mostly PAs working in roles federal data files under other occupations — administration, education, industry — plus people holding certification while not practising.
Ki sa ki te rive moun ki te fin antrene a?
Kat ane apre yo fin fini — yon chif pou kòd pwogram nan, pa pou travay sa a sèlman
Of 13,462 moun ki te fin Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree epi yo pa t ap aprann ankò 4 ane pita, 166 pa t gen okenn revni sou dosye a nan tout — 1.2%. Sa yo ki te travay te resevwa yon mwayèn de $127,347, ak mwatye mitan ant $103,242 ak $152,756.
“Pa gen okenn revni nan dosye” pa vle di “pa gen travay”. Se yon mezi ki montre pa gen okenn dosye sou salè ak okenn revni ki soti nan travay pou tèt ou pou ane a tout antye. Pa gen moun ki te mande si yo te vle travay, se poutèt sa kont la gen moun ki te kite fòs travay la pa chwa yo — pou yo te ka grandi pitit, pou yo te ka pran swen, pou yo te ka vwayaje, pou yo te ka viv sou revni yon lòt moun, pou yo te ka deplase aletranje — ansanm ak tout moun ki te vle travay men pa t gen okenn travay. Pa gen moun ki pibliye kantite sa a e nou pa pral fè yon deduksyon. Sa li montre se kantite moun ki te fini fòmasyon sa a epi ki pa t ap touche anyen de sa ni de nenpòt lòt bagay pandan kat ane, sa se egzakteman sa kantite salè ki anwo a pa ka di w.
Ak sa a pa se yon siyifikasyon jeneral nan travay sa a. Gouvènman federal la pibliye rezilta pwogram nan yon granulation de kat chif ak pa gen pi bon, ak pwogram sa a kredabl pataje kòd yo ak lòt moun. Se konsa, figi a dekri tout moun ki te konplete nenpòt bagay anba kòd sa a nan nivo sa a, pa sèlman moun ki te ale sou fè sa a travay.
Ki sa kòd pwogram lan kouvri: CIP 51.09 is the broadest code on this page and it is shared. Radiography, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, cardiovascular technology, sonography, perfusion, athletic training and physician assistant studies are all inside it, and the Department publishes no split. At associate level the code is dominated by imaging, respiratory and surgical technology; at master's level by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings jump. No figure here is specific to any one of those occupations and it must not be quoted as though it were.
The master's level of this programme code is dominated by physician assistant programmes, which is why the earnings figure is so much higher than the rest of the code. It is still not a PA-only figure and must not be quoted as one.
Ki moun ki nan gwoup la: Moun ki te ale sou pou etidye plis yo pa nan nenpòt nan kolòn yo. Depatman an supprime inivèsite ak cohorts twò ti pou pibliye ak ajoute bri statistique a rès la, se konsa sa a se yon kantite lajan sou inivèsite gwo ase pou rapòte: 161 100 nan yo, rekiperasyon 83.6% nan kont nasyonal Depatman an pou pwogram sa a. Dropping pi piti pwogram rapòte deplase pousantaj la pa 0.0 pousan pwen.
Fonksyon: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · View · menm chif la pou chak pwogram nou ka pibliye
Ki sa li pèmèt ou fè
Salè a gen rapò ak travay la, pa ak lisans lan. Sa yo se travay li bay ou dwa pou yo.
| Job | Èske li nesesè? | Median | Travayè |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
Sit ofisyèl (an angle) Sit ofisyèl (an franse) Sit ofisyèl (an angle) BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Èske li peye pou li?
Travay sa a deblotché peye yon mwayèn de $135,880, kont yon mwayèn travay-pouvwa de $50,020 sou chak travay nou pibliye - yon prim de sou $85,860 Nou pa ka fè sa tounen yon peryòd rekiperasyon, paske pa gen okenn chif ki ka fè konfyans pou sa sa koute pou jwenn li – mwatye nan calcul la se reyèl e li pibliye, e mwatye lòt la nou pa gen.
Li sa a kòm yon konparasyon ak yon travay mwayèn, pa nan travay ou. Ki sa ki se bazline a, ak sa li pa gen ladan
Li pa t' gen okenn travay. Tout figi ranbousman sou sit sa a se kondisyonèl sou yo dwe anboche nan travay la. Sa a se supposition a kredatif-posede kont la anwo egziste pou teste, epi li se supposition a chak lòt sit peye fè san yo pa di anyen.
Ki sa ou bezwen anvan ou kòmanse
- A bachelor's degree with science prerequisites
- Documented direct patient-care hours — programmes commonly ask for 1,000 or more
- A place on an ARC-PA accredited programme
- A pass in the PANCE
Pa fè sa si
- you have no patient-care hours yet — that requirement is the real barrier and it is usually a year or more of paid work before you can apply
- you are choosing it over medicine purely on length; the scope of practice is different, not smaller-but-otherwise-identical
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