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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.

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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.

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Àwọn àwọn

Àwọn àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 201,038 board-certified physician assistants tí a fìdídí 2025, Àwọn àkọlé àwọn àkọlé 162,150 iṣẹ ni awọn iṣẹ ti o jẹ fun — 80.7%. Tí a fi pamọ́ 38,888 Àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò tí o kò bá jẹ́.

Igbà tí a fi hàn nínú àwọn àkọ́lé yìí ní a tí sọ̀rọ̀. Ìfihàn a ẹri kò jẹ́ ohun tí o bá fẹ́ lati se iṣẹ́ pẹlú rẹ̀. Ìpàlẹ̀ náà ní gbogbo ẹnití tí lọ́wọ́lú lọ́wọ́lú, kọ́kọ́, ìfihàn, ìwégbé

Awọn ẹgbẹ meji ni wọn n sọrọ. Awọn olutọju ni ọjọ kan lodi si iṣẹ ni akoko kan - iru kanna ti iye, eyiti o jẹ idi kan nikan ti awọn meji le ni igbimọ ni gbogbo wọn.

Àwọn àwọn: 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.

Àwọn àwọn àgbèwọlé: 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 · Àwọn ìṣàfihàn

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.

Àwọn ohun tí a tí ìṣẹ̀dá nínú àwọn eniyan tí wọ́n tí ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà

Àwọn odun mẹ́fá láti àkóónú — àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò fún àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò, kò ní fún iṣẹ́ yìí

Àwọn àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 13,462 Àwọn eniyan tí wọ́n tí kọ̀ọ̀kan Allied health diagnostic and treatment, master's degree ati ki o ti ko ti wa ni kọ ẹkọ mẹrin ọdun lẹhin, 166 kò ní àwọn owó tí a fi pamọ́ ní gbogbo — 1.2%. Awọn ti o ti wa ni iṣẹ gba median ti $127,347, pẹlú àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ $103,242 àti $152,756.

“Awọn owo-ori ko si lori iwe-aṣẹ” kii ṣe “awọn ti ko ni iṣẹ”. Ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà nípa àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínu

Atí pé àwọn Àwọn àwọn

Àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò àìṣàmúlò-ètò: 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.

Tí a bá fi àwọn àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ pamọ́ fullers ti won gba federal ọmọ ile-iwe ìmọ - nipa idaji ti US undergraduates, ati awọn miiran idaji ti ko ti a ti ayẹwo nibi. Awọn eniyan ti lọ lori si siwaju sii ẹkọ ni ko si ninu eyikeyi column. The Department suppresses institutions with cohorts too small to publish and adds statistical noise to the rest, so this is a sum over the institutions large enough to report: 161 ti wọn, ti n paṣẹ 83.6% ti a ti ṣe fun iṣẹ yii. Tí a bá fi àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò ìròyìn tí o kù jù lọ, a á gbé àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà lọ́wọ́lọ́wọ́ 0.0 Àwọn ìpèwọ̀n àwọn ìtàn.

Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Àwọn ìṣàfihàn · àwọn

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Àwọn iṣẹ́	Ṣe o fẹ́?	Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò
Physician Assistants	Legally required to hold the job	$135,880	162,150

Median owo ati iṣẹ: BLS Occupational Employment ati Wage Statistics, May 2025.

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Àwọn iṣẹ́ tí a tí ìpàdé yìí párá àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò $135,880, ni igbimọ $50,020 ni gbogbo iṣẹ ti a ti tẹjade - a premium ti nipa $85,860 a odun ṣaajú owó. A kò lè yí o padà sí àwọn oṣú tí a tí n paṣẹ́, nitorí kò si àwọn à

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Ohun ti o fẹ́ ṣaajú tí o bá bẹrẹ

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

Kò ṣẹ̀dà yìí látì jẹ́ pé

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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