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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, jam penuh. Jam setengah luwih suwe.
Ora ana wektu payback - ora ana angka biaya kanggo mbayar maneh. Premium iku ing ngisor iki.
Nanging, ora ana bukti sing bisa dikonfirmasi manawa ana hubungane karo crita iki.
Kenapa 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.
Apa ana wong kang duwe iki, lan apa ana wong kang kerja ing lapangan
Nomor kang dipisahake déning angka bayar
Saka 201,038 board-certified physician assistants counted in 2025, federal employment records account for 162,150 working in the occupations it is for — 80.7%. Sing ninggalake 38,888 pemegang iku ora ngitung kanggo.
Kauntungan utamana nyaéta tingkat kauntungan anu langkung luhur, henteu gumantung kana tingkat kauntungan. Ngawengku hiji kredensial teu sarua jeung néangan keur karya jeung eta. Gap ngawengku saha waé anu pindah kana manajemén, diajar, penjualan, inspeksi atawa padamelan anu aya hubunganana yén file data federal di handapeun pagawéan béda; saha waé anu pensiun atawa ninggalkeun tanpa ngaleupaskeun kredensial; saha waé anu damel part-time, agénsi atawa self-employed dina cara survéy pakasaban teu captures; jeung saha waé anu ngawengku éta salaku string kadua ka padamelan séjén. Jadi gap nyaeta plafond dina sabaraha jalma dilatih teu gawé dina widang ieu - angka nyata leuwih handap, sarta éta teu hiji count of anyone who is unemployed. Naon pasangan ngalakukeun ngayakeun nyaéta ukuran tina pool angka bayar diterbitkeun teu ngadangu ngeunaan, nu hal teu pay site nembongkeun ka anjeun.
Kedua-duané iku kagolong golongan spésies kang langka. Sacara umum, dina hiji periode, jumlah pagawéan anu digawé ku hiji jalma bisa diitung ku cara ngabandingkeun jumlah pagawéan anu digawé ku dua jalma anu béda.
Apa sing kalebu ing hitungan: 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.
Pendahulu: 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 sing kedadeyan karo wong-wong sing rampung pelatihan
Papat taun sawisé rampung — angka kanggo kode program, ora kanggo tugas iki kemawon
Atau 13,462 wong kang rampung Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree lan ora lagi sinau maneh papat taun sabanjure, 166 ez zuen irabazirik izan erregistroan — 1.2%. wong-wong sing kerjane entuk median saka $127,347, karo setengah tengah antara $103,242 lan $152,756.
"No earnings on record" teu "nganggur". Ukuran ieu nyaéta henteuna rékor gaji sareng pendapatan mandiri anu positif pikeun sataun. Teu aya anu ditanyakeun naha aranjeunna hoyong damel, janten jumlahna ngawengku jalma anu angkat tina tenaga kerja ku pilihan - ngaronjatkeun murangkalih, ngajaga, ngajalankeun, hirup dina pendapatan jalma sanés, pindah ka luar negeri - sareng sadayana anu hoyong damel sareng henteu ngagaduhan. Teu aya anu ngapublikasikan pecahna sareng urang moal nyaho. Anu ditetepkeun nyaéta sabaraha jalma anu réngsé latihan ieu sareng henteu kéngingkeun nanaon tina éta atanapi ti naon waé anu sanés dina opat taun, anu persis anu angka gaji di luhur henteu tiasa nyarios ka anjeun.
Nanging, ora ana sing bisa mbedakake iki. Pamaréntah federal ngaluarkeun hasil program dina granularity opat digit jeung teu leuwih alus, sarta program ieu kredensial babagi kode maranéhanana jeung batur. Jadi gambar ngajelaskeun saha waé anu réngsé sagalana di handapeun kode éta dina tingkat ieu, teu ngan jalma anu indit pikeun ngalakukeun karya ieu.
Apa kode program iku nglindhungi: 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: completers kang nampa bantuan mahasiswa federal - kira-kira setengah saka mahasiswa AS, lan setengah liyane ora diukur ing kene. Wong sing pindhah kanggo sinau luwih iku ing salah siji kolom. Departemen nyegah institusi karo cohorts banget cilik kanggo publikasi lan nambah swara statistik kanggo sisa, supaya iki jumlah ing institusi cukup gedhe kanggo laporkan: 161 saka wong-wong mau, recovery 83.6% saka Departemen dhewe count nasional kanggo program iki. Nglebokaké program laporan paling cilik nglebokaké tingkat kanthi 0.0 poin persen.
Sumber: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · tampilan · angka anu sami pikeun unggal program urang tiasa ngapublikasikan
Apa sing bisa sampeyan lakoni
Gajina aya dina padamelan, lain dina kredensial. Ieu nyaéta padamelan anu anjeun tiasa lakukeun.
| Layanan | Diperlukan? | Median | Digunakaké |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
Median pay and employment: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (dipunundhuh tanggal 20 Oktober 2015)
Apa iku mbayar dhewe?
Layanan iki nglebokake median saka $135,880, versus median kerja-weighted saka $50,020 liwat saben profesi kita publikasi — premium saka bab $85,860 a taun saméméh pajak. Urang teu bisa ngarobah éta kana periode payback, sabab teu aya angka dipercaya aya pikeun naon ieu biaya pikeun meunangkeun - satengah tina perhitungan nyaéta nyata jeung diterbitkeun, sarta satengah séjén urang teu boga.
Baca éta minangka perbandingan ka rata-rata padamelan, henteu ka padamelan anjeun. Apa garis dasar iku, lan apa sing dipisahake
Nanging, dheweke ora bisa entuk kerja. Satiap payback angka dina situs ieu aya syarat dina digawé dina karya. Nu mangrupa asumsi nu credential-holder count di luhur aya pikeun nguji, sarta éta asumsi unggal payback situs séjén nyieun diam.
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
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