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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.
Hakuna kiasi chochote cha bei kilichothibitishwa.
Miezi mingi ya mazoezi, yaani, muda mrefu zaidi unachukua muda mrefu zaidi.
Hakuna gharama ya kulipa gharama ya kulipa, na malipo yako chini.
Mahali ambapo tarakimu iliyo juu haingeweza kuthibitishwa hatuchapishi hata kidogo.
Kwa nini hakuna gharama hapa
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.
Ni watu wangapi walio na maoni hayo, na ni wangapi wanaofanya kazi shambani
Idadi ya mshahara inaondoka
Wa Iram, wenye majumba marefu? 201,038 board-certified physician assistants ilihesabiwa 2025, Rekodi za kazi za serikali za serikali zinaonyesha kwamba 162,150 Kufanya kazi katika shughuli mbalimbali ni kwa ajili ya faida ya faida 80.7%. Hilo laondoka 38,888 Hauna lawama kwa hayo.
Pengo hilo ni la juu, si kiwango cha ukosefu wa kazi ya kuajiriwa. Kushikilia hati za habari si sawa na kutafuta kazi kwa ajili ya kazi.
Pande zote mbili zinaonwa kuwa muhimu. Wenye kushikilia tarehe moja dhidi ya kuajiriwa katika kipindi cha wakati cha aina ileile, hiyo ndiyo sababu pekee ya wote wawili kuweza kugawanywa.
Hesabu hiyo inahusisha nini?: 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.
Denonator: 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 · maoni
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.
Kilichowapata watu waliomaliza mazoezi hayo
Miaka minne baada ya kukamilisha programu ya kompyuta ya ▶, si kwa ajili ya kazi hii pekee
ya 13,462 Ambao walifanya kazi kwa bidii. Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree Wala hawakuwa wenye kughafilika na yale ya baadaye. 166 Na lau kuwa si fadhila juu yake mngeli kusanya watu, 1.2%. Wale waliokuwa wakifanya kazi walipata umaarufu $127,347, Na baina ya makundi mawili hayo patakuwa pa katikati. $103,242 na $152,756.
faida za kupata kazi zote, Bradton, si kazi ya kuajiriwa ya 1725. Hatua ni kukosekana kwa rekodi yoyote ya mshahara na mapato yoyote chanya ya kazi ya mwaka mzima. Hakuna aliyeulizwa kama wanataka kazi, kwa hiyo idadi inashikilia watu walioacha kazi kwa kuchagua kulea watoto, kutunza, kusafiri, kuishi kwa mapato ya mtu mwingine, kuhamia nchi nyingine pamoja na kila mtu aliyetaka kazi na ambao hawana. Hakuna mtu anayetangaza kujigawanya na hatutakisia. Ni kwa namna gani watu wengi walikuwa wamemaliza mazoezi haya na hawakuchuma chochote kutoka kwa miaka minne au kitu chochote kile chochote, ambacho huwezi kusema juu ya kiasi kilicho juu ya juu.
Na tarakimu hiyo haihusu kazi hii moja kwa moja. Serikali ya serikali huchapisha matokeo ya programu hiyo kwa kiwango cha nne cha uungwaji mkono na siyo kwa ubora, na programu hizo za msingi zinaweka sheria zake pamoja na wengine.
Kile ambacho mfumo huo wa programu hufunika: 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.
Ambao wanapanda nyoyoni. Wauzaji wa vitabu waliopokea misaada ya wanafunzi wa serikali sio safu. Idara inadhibiti taasisi zenye ni ndogo sana kuweza kuchapisha na kuongeza kelele za takwimu kwa wale wengine, kwa hiyo hii ni kiasi cha fedha juu ya taasisi kubwa kiasi cha kutaarifu: 161 Katika hao, wanazidisha idadi. 83.6% ya Idara hiyo yenyewe. Kupunguza programu ndogo zaidi za kuripoti hufanya kiwango hicho kiongezeke kwa 0.0 Asilimia yataja.
Chanzo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · maoni · tarakimu hiyohiyo kwa kila programu tuwezayo kuchapisha
Kile unachoruhusu ufanye
Malipo ni ya kazi, si ya matajiri, bali ni kazi unazostahili kufanya.
| Ayubu | Je, hilo lahitajiwa? | Median | Waajiriwa |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician Assistants | Legally required to hold the job | $135,880 | 162,150 |
Malipo na ajira kutoka vyombo vya habari: Kazi ya Kuajiriwa ya BLS na Takwimu za Wage, Mei 2025.
Je, inajilipia?
Kazi hii ya kufungulia inaleta faida $135,880, dhidi ya chombo cha habari cha wafanyakazi kilicho na uzito mkubwa $50,020 katika kila kazi tunachapisha malipo ya kutosha $85,860 Hatuwezi kubadili hiyo kuwa kipindi cha malipo, kwa sababu hakuna tarakimu inayoaminika kwa gharama ya kupata nusu ya hesabu hiyo ni halisi na iliyochapishwa, na nusu ile nyingine ambayo hatuna.
Soma andiko hilo ili ulinganishe kazi yako na kazi ya kawaida, bali si kazi yako. Msingi huo ni nini, na kile kinachoacha
Na inakufanya upoteze kazi hiyo. Kila mtu anayelipwa mshahara mdogo kwenye tovuti hii ana masharti ya kukodiwa ndani ya kazi hiyo. Hayo ni dhana ya kwamba idadi ya watu wenye sifa mbaya iko juu ya kupimwa, na ni dhana ya kila uwanja wa malipo ambayo kila uwanja mwingine hufanya kazi kimya - kimya.
Unachohitaji kabla ya kuanza
- 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
Msipo fanya hivi itakuwako fitna katika nchi,
- 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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