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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.
Ma jiro qiimaha la xaqiijiyay.
Bilood tababarka, waqti buuxa. Waqtiga qaybta ka qaadataa waqti dheer.
Ma jiro waqti la bixiyo — ma jiro qiime la bixiyo. Qiimaha waa hoos ku qoran.
Marka aan la aqoonsan karin tirada kor ku xusan waxaan daabacnaa mid ka mid ah oo aan ahayn qiimeyn.
Maxaa ka jiraa in aan lacagta la soo bandhigin
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.
Tirada dadka haystaan, iyo inta badan oo ka shaqeeyaan ee dhulka
Tirada lacagta lacagta la siiyo ka tagay
ee 201,038 board-certified physician assistants la xisaabiyey 2025, diiwaanada shaqada federaalka ah xisaabta 162,150 shaqada ee xirfado waa in ay u - 80.7%. Oo ka taga 38,888 Owners ma xisaab ah.
In farqiga waa xad sare, ma aha heerka shaqo la'aanta. Qabashada aqoonsiga ma aha sida la mid ah sida raadinaya shaqada la. kala fogaanshaha waxaa ku jira qof kasta oo u dhaqaaqay maamulka, waxbarashada, iibka, baaritaanka ama shaqo la xiriira in xogta federaalka faylasha hoos shaqo kala duwan; qof kasta oo ka fariistay ama ka baxay iyadoo aan la siin aqoonsiga; qof kasta oo ka shaqeeya waqti qayb ah, hay'ad ama shaqsi ahaan u shaqeeyo si habka cilmi baarista shaqada ma qabtaan; iyo qof kasta oo haysta sida string labaad oo shaqo kale. Sidaas, kala fogaanshaha waa Ceiling on sida badan oo dadka tababaran ma shaqeeyaan ee qaybtan - tirada dhabta ah waa ka hooseeya, oo ma aha tirada qof kasta oo shaqo la'aan ah. waxa labada u samayn waa in ay dhisaan waa miisaanka ee biyaha la daabacay tirada mushaharka waa aamusnaan, taas oo ah waxa aan lacagta website-ka ma muujin.
Labada dhinacba waa tirakoob taagan. Holders on taariikhda ka dhanka ah shaqada ee muddo ah - nooca isku mid ah ee tiro, taas oo ah sababta keliya ee labada la kala qaybin karo oo dhan.
Waxa tiradaas ku jira: 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.
Isku-dhafka: 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 · aragti
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.
Maxaa ka dhacay dadka oo dhammeeyey tababarka
Afar sano ka dib markii dhamaystirka — sawirka code barnaamijka, ma aha shaqadan oo keliya
Ama 13,462 dadka oo dhammeeyey Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree iyo ma ay wax ka baran afar sano ka dib, 166 ma laha wax mushahar ah oo ku saabsan diiwaanka oo dhan — 1.2%. Kuwa ahaa kuwa shaqeeyay ku kasbaday dhexdhexaad ah oo $127,347, la badhtamaha badhtamaha u dhexeeya $103,242 iyo $152,756.
"Ma jiro wax soo saarka ku qoran" ma aha "ka shaqayn". Miisaanka waa aan jirin wax diiwaanka mushaarka iyo wax kasta oo wanaagsan oo shaqo-abuurka mushaarka sanadka oo dhan. Qofna ma la weydiiyay haddii ay doonayaan shaqo, sidaas daraaddeed tirada dadka ka tagay shaqaalaha by doorasho - koritaanka carruurta, daryeel, safarka, ku nool qof kale oo mushaarka, ka tagay dibadda - la mid ah qof kasta oo doonayay shaqo oo aan lahayn. qofna ma daabaco kala qaybinta oo aan ka yaabay. waxa ay samayso waa in ay soo saaraan in dadka badan oo tababarkan dhamaystay oo ay waxba ka soo bixin ama wax kale afar sano ka dib, taas oo ah si dhab ah waxa mushaarka figure kor ku qoran ma kuu sheegi karo.
Iyo sawirkan ma aha mid gaar ah shaqadan. Dowladda federaalka ah ayaa daabaca barnaamijyada natiijada at afar-dhibcood granularity iyo wax ka yar, iyo barnaamijyada this aqoonsiga ee qaybiyaan code iyaga oo kale. Sidaas oo kale, sawirku wuxuu sharaxayaa qof kasta oo dhammeeyey wax kasta oo hoos ku qoran code in heerkan, ma aha oo kaliya dadka oo u dhaqaaqay in ay sameeyaan shaqadan.
Waxa code-ka barnaamijkaas ku saabsan: 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.
Cidda waa in cohort: completers oo helay deeq waxbarasho federal ah - in ka badan badh ardayda dhigata USA, iyo badhka kale ma la xisaabtamo halkan. Dadka oo u tegey in ay wax ka bartaan dheeraad ah ayaa ku jira mid kasta oo tiirka. Wasaaradda hoos u haysta hay'adaha la cohorts aad u yar oo ay daabacaan iyo ku daray codka tirakoobka in ay naafada ah, sidaas darteed tani waa lacag ka badan hay'adaha ku filan oo weyn in ay warbixin: 161 ka mid ah, soo kabashada 83.6% ee Wasaaradda ee xisaabta qaranka ee barnaamijkan. Ka qaadista barnaamijyada warbixinta ugu yar ee dhaqdhaqaaqa qiimaha by 0.0 dhibcood boqolkiiba.
Qoraalka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · aragti · tirada la mid ah ee barnaamij kasta oo aan ku daabacan karno
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Lacagta ku saabsan shaqada, ma aha in aqoonsiga. Kuwaas waa shaqooyinka ay ku siinaysaa aad u.
| Shaqada | Ma loo baahan yahay? | Dhexdhexaad | Shaqaale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
Lacagta dhexdhexaadka ah iyo shaqada: BLS Shaqada Shaqada iyo Tirakoobka Lacagta, May 2025.
Ma u bixisaa naftiisa?
Shaqada this furaysaa bixisaa mid ka mid ah $135,880, ka dhanka ah shaqo-dhisidda midabka ee $50,020 oo dhan shaqo kasta oo aan daabacno - premium ee ku saabsan $85,860 sanadka ka hor canshuurta. Waxaana aan ku noqon karin in ay noqdaan muddo lacagta dib u, sababtoo ah ma jiro tirakoobka la aamini karo oo jira waxa ku kacaya in la helo - badhka xisaabta waa run iyo la daabacay, iyo badhka kale aan ma lahayn.
Akhri in sida isbarbardhigga shaqo caadi ah, ma aha shaqadaada. Waa maxay in line baseline ah, iyo waxa ay ka tagto
Oo waxay u maleynayaan inaad shaqo hesho. Fiiri kasta oo lacagta dib u eegis ah ee goobtan waa shuruud ku ah in la siiyo shaqada. Taasi waa qiyaasta in la xisaabiyo aqoonsiga-qaadashada kor ku xusan ka jira in la tijaabiyo, iyo waa qiyaasta in kasta oo kale oo lacag ah goobta ka dhigi doonaa si qaylo leh.
Waxa aad u baahan tahay ka hor inta aadan bilaabin
- 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
Ha samayn haddii
- 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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