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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.
Ora ana sing bisa diverifikasi.
Taun-taun latihan, full time. Part time luwih dawa.
Ora ana wektu payback - ora ana biaya kanggo mbayar balik. Prémium ana ing ngisor iki.
Ing jaman saiki, ora ana sing bisa nganggep yèn anané crita iki ora bisa dikonfirmasi.
Mengapa ora ana angka biaya ing kene
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.
Kadospundi kathah tiyang ingkang gadhah punika, lan kadospundi kathah tiyang ingkang damel ing lapangan
Nomor kang dipisahake déning angka bayar
Saka 201,038 board-certified physician assistants diitung ing 2025, federal karir rekaman akun kanggo 162,150 gawé ing profesi iku kanggo — 80.7%. Sing ninggalake 38,888 pemegang iku ora ngitung kanggo.
Ing jaman saiki, ora ana sing bisa ngontrol tingkat pengangguran. Nglenggahi kredensial ora padha karo golek kerja karo iku. Gap ngandhut saben wong kang pindah menyang manajemen, pengajaran, penjualan, inspeksi utawa kerja sing ana gandhengane karo data federal file ing bawah profesi sing beda; saben wong sing pensiun utawa ninggal tanpa nyelehake kredensial; saben wong kerja part-time, agensi utawa self-employed ing cara survey kerja ora nyekel; lan saben wong kang nyelehake iku minangka string kaping kalih kanggo kerja liyane. Sapunika gap iku CEILING ing carane akeh wong dilatih ora kerja ing lapangan iki - angka nyata luwih cilik, lan ora counting wong sing ora digawé. Apa pasangan iku mbangun ukuran saka pool sing diterbitake angka bayar ora ngomong bab, kang iku perkara ora pay site nuduhake sampeyan.
Kabèh iku digawé saka kayu. Saben wong bisa ngalami kelainan iki, nanging ora ana siji-sijiné wong kang bisa ngalami kelainan iki.
Apa kang kalebu ing pangukuran: 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.
Denominator: 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 · tampilan
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.
Apa kang kelakon marang wong-wong kang wis rampung latihan
Papat taun sawisé rampung — angka kanggo kode program, ora kanggo kerja iki mung
Saka 13,462 wong kang rampung Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree lan ora sinau maneh4taun sawisé, 166 ora duwe penghasilan ing rekaman — 1.2%. Ing jaman biyèn, wong-wong padha nglampahi upacara-upacara adat. $127,347, karo setengah tengah antarané $103,242 lan $152,756.
Ing basa Inggris, "non-profit" tegesé "non-pendapatan". Kados ta:
Nanging, ora ana sing bisa mbedakake antarané iki. Pemerintah federal nerbitaké asil program ing granularity papat digit lan ora luwih, lan program iki kredensial nyambungake kode karo wong liya. Dadi gambar nggambarake saben wong sing rampung apa-apa ing ngisor kode ing tingkat iki, ora mung wong sing terus kerja iki.
Apa kang diwaca ing kode program: 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.
Siapa ing kohort: Completors kang nampa federal siswa bantuan - kira-kira setengah saka AS undergraduates, lan setengah liyane ora diukur ing kene. Wong kang pindhah menyang sinau luwih iku ing ora ing kolom. Departemen suppresses institusi karo cohorts banget cilik kanggo publikasi lan nambahake statistik noise kanggo sisa, supaya iki asumsi liwat institusi cukup gedhe kanggo laporan: 161 saka wong-wong mau, pulih 83.6% ing angka nasional Departemen piyambak kanggé program punika. Nglempar program laporan paling cilik nglebur laju kanthi 0.0 % 1 poin
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · tampilan · angka kang padha kanggo saben program kang bisa kita publikasi
Apa kang bisa ditindakake
Gaji punika kanggé damel, boten kanggé kredensial. Ingkang punika kanggé damel ingkang dipunperlukan.
| Tugas | Apa iku dibutuhaké? | Median | Digunakaké |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
Dhèwèké dadi anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat lan Anggota Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, lan dadi anggota DPR, wiwit taun 2014.
Apa iku bayaran kanggo dhèwèké?
Tugas iki nglumpukaké bayaran median saka $135,880, ing mburi median $50,020 ing salebeting saben profesi kita nerbitaken - a premium saka bab $85,860 taun sadurungé pajak. Kita ora bisa ngowahi iku dadi wektu payback, amarga ora ana angka sing dipercaya ana kanggo apa iki biaya kanggo entuk - setengah saka perhitungan nyata lan diterbitake, lan setengah liyane kita ora duwe.
Ing jaman saiki, ora ana sing bisa nganggep iku minangka karya sastra. Apa garis dasar iku, lan apa kang dipisahake
Dhèwèké uga dadi juru main bal-balan. Saben angka payback ing situs iki dikondicionaké kanggo digawé ing kerja. Ya iku asumsi kang kredensial-pemegang count ing ndhuwur ana kanggo tes, lan iku asumsi saben payback situs liya ora disengaja.
Apa sing sampeyan butuhake sadurunge miwiti
- 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
Aja nindakake iki yen
- 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
Sedaya kredensial, miturut periode payback · Carane iki dikalkulake · Nglebuké sapérangan liyane