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Healthcare Employment Trends

Healthcare Employment Trends

The health sector's employment growth has significantly outpaced non-health sector employment growth over the last 50 years.

Cumulative % change in health sector and non-health sector employment, January 1990 - February 2024

  • Note: All data is seasonally adjusted. Data from the latest two months are preliminary. Grey regions represent periods of economic recession.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

Healthcare Employment Trends

Health employment has made up a fairly consistent portion of U.S. employment since 2010

Percent of all U.S. nonfarm employees working in the health sector, 1990-2023

  • Note: Annual data is a 12-month average. 2023 value is preliminary and excludes December.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Survey (CES) 

Healthcare Employment Trends

Skilled nursing care and elderly care employment remain below February 2020 levels

Cumulative % change in health sector employment by setting, February 2020 - February 2024

  • Note: All data is seasonally adjusted. Data for the latest two months are preliminary. BLS category for continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly is labeled as elderly care facilities.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

Healthcare Employment Trends

Overall health sector employment remains below trends seen before the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare employment, actual and projected, (based on pre-pandemic growth rates) January 2017 - February 2024

  • Note: All data are seasonally adjusted. Data is preliminary. Projected values are calculated by applying the average monthly growth rate between January 2017-January 2020 to March 2020 through the latest month.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics (CES) 

Healthcare Employment Trends

Job quits have returned to pre-pandemic levels

Cumulative % change in job quits from February 2020 - January 2024, health & social assistance jobs and all jobs

  • Note: "All jobs" includes nonfarm jobs only

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings & Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) 

Healthcare Employment Trends

Average weekly earnings have increased steadily among all employees, including health sector employees, since the beginning of the pandemic (GOLD STAR)

Cumulative % change in average weekly earnings from February 2020 - January 2024, all employees and health sector employees

  • Note: All data is seasonally adjusted. Data from the latest month is preliminary.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Employment Statistics

Healthcare Employment Trends

Home- and nursing care employees have seen higher average wage increases than employees who work in a clinical setting

Cumulative % change in average weekly earnings, since February 2020 - January 2024

  • Note: All data is seasonally adjusted. Data for the latest month are preliminary. BLS category for continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly is labeled as elderly care facilities.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Economic Statistics (CES)

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