1,750+ Nursing & Healthcare Jobs in Boston, MA

Observed local pay is strong: BLS puts the healthcare-practitioner group at a $59.87 average hourly wage in May 2025 versus $43.09 across all occupations in the metro. For registered nurses, BLS reported a $106,180 median annual wage, with $94,870 at the 25th percentile and $153,380 at the 75th percentile. Proxy signals for current hiring sit in a similar but not identical range: posted salary bands across the category center on about $98k to $130k, Massachusetts mean offered salary on new openings was about $122,846 in August 2026, Boston RN guides cluster around about $118,000 to $119,000, and Boston NP guides cluster around about $138,890 to $158,000 with stronger-candidate ranges up to $180,000 to $205,000.

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Advertised pay

Across the 1,598 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $98,756 at the 25th percentile, $117,915 at the median and $139,318 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 11, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

For licensed healthcare practitioners, Boston is still a favorable market over the next 3-6 months, but it is selective rather than easy. The metro unemployment rate was 4.3% in July 2026, local education and health services employment was 615.7 thousand and up 0.5224% year-over-year in June 2026, and Massachusetts healthcare-practitioner employment and active postings were up 3.2% and 2.4% year-over-year in August 2026. The catch is that most openings are tied to large, on-site employers: about 55% of postings come from enterprise organizations and about 85% are on-site.

Best positioned: The best odds right now go to licensed RNs, NPs, therapists, and other clinicians with recent patient-facing experience, strong patient assessment and documentation skills, and flexibility for on-site or home-based care.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is reading high Boston pay as a sign of easy hiring; around 34-day posting ages and 32-38 day RN/NP time-to-fill signals point to real demand, but also to screening-heavy hiring.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,866 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Boston Medical Center, Corp.: 126 open roles
2. Mass General Brigham Incorporated: 124 open roles
3. Beth Israel Lahey Health, Inc.: 78 open roles
4. Bay State PT: 68 open roles
5. BMC Software, Inc.: 63 open roles
6. Boston Children's Hospital: 40 open roles
7. South Shore Health: 40 open roles
8. Mass General: 39 open roles
9. Tufts Medicine: 32 open roles
10. Cambridge Health Alliance: 29 open roles

Where the openings are

• Boston: 561
• Cambridge: 144
• Brockton: 88
• Salem: 69
• Framingham: 49
• Weymouth: 41
• Quincy: 40
• Lowell: 37

Work arrangement

on-site 1,677 (92%), hybrid 97 (5%), remote 51 (3%)

Where the demand is

Most real opportunity is clustered inside large health systems and other enterprise employers, even though the market is not dominated by one single organization. Hiring is fragmented across employers in the sample, but about 55% of postings come from enterprise organizations, and the most consistently active names include Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mass General Brigham, BMC Health System, Bay State Physical Therapy, and CVS Health. The practical hiring lanes look narrower than the category label suggests. Most postings are in healthcare and hospital-related industries, which means inpatient care, specialty clinics, outpatient networks, and therapy-heavy settings still do the bulk of the hiring. A second lane is home-based and community care: Mass General Brigham is actively advertising Healthcare at Home roles, and that lines up with the broader shift toward care outside the hospital. The weakest lane is fully remote clinical work. About 85% of postings are on-site and only about 5% are remote, so job seekers who insist on remote-only search filters will artificially shrink their market.

• Hospital systems and academic medical centers (high): The deepest pool of openings sits in large hospital-linked employers and specialty networks, especially for licensed clinicians who can handle patient assessment, documentation, and direct care at scale.
• Home-based and community care (high): Home-care and in-home clinical delivery look like one of the clearest expansion areas, especially for nurses and other practitioners who can work independently across patient settings.
• Outpatient therapy, rehab, and retail-clinic care (moderate): Bay State Physical Therapy and CVS Health both show up among active employers, which points to steady but more role-specific demand outside the big hospital systems.
• Remote-only and sponsorship-dependent searches (limited): Remote clinical roles are scarce, and visa sponsorship is rarely mentioned, so these search constraints materially reduce your odds.

Where to focus: Prioritize on-site roles inside large systems and home-based care teams first, then use outpatient therapy or retail-clinic openings as your secondary lane.

Roles worth searching next

• Care coordinator or patient navigator: It uses the same strengths that local postings reward in direct-care roles, especially patient education and care planning, and it connects naturally to community and home-based care models.
• Clinical documentation specialist: It fits clinicians who are strong in documentation and want to lean into digital workflow change rather than bedside intensity.
• Credentialing or provider enrollment specialist: Credentialing and insurance verification are explicitly highlighted as valued healthcare skills, making this a realistic pivot for people moving away from direct care or trying to enter the sector through operations.
• Practice manager or clinic operations lead: Boston hiring skews toward enterprise healthcare employers, and large organizations are emphasizing workflow, office administration, and automation skills.

What postings ask for

• Patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample at about 25%, so it is basic screening currency across many practitioner sub-roles. Who: Everyone applying to direct patient-care roles.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): Clinical documentation shows up in about 15% of local postings, and AI-assisted note drafting is reshaping workflows, so employers increasingly value clinicians who can document accurately and adapt to new tools. Who: Mid-career clinicians, home-care applicants, and anyone moving between employers with different EHR habits.
• Patient education and care planning (differentiator | immediate): Patient education appears in about 15% of local postings and care planning in about 10%, which makes them especially useful for outpatient, chronic-care, and home-based roles. Who: RNs, therapists, NPs, and career switchers targeting care coordination.
• BLS or CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): They are among the most commonly listed certifications in local postings, so expired basic credentials create avoidable screening friction. Who: Entry-level clinicians and anyone returning to direct care.
• Digital health and telehealth proficiency (differentiator | near-term): Digital health proficiency is increasingly valuable, and adaptability with integrated technology and telehealth platforms is a key skill in 2026. Who: Mid-career clinicians, home-based care applicants, and anyone moving into ambulatory or hybrid care models.
• AI-assisted documentation fluency (premium | near-term): Physician AI use reached 81% in 2026, and AI tools now draft summaries and clinical notes, even though AI proficiency is not yet a standard line in most clinician job descriptions. Who: Physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and documentation-heavy roles.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH?

Observed local pay is strong: BLS puts the healthcare-practitioner group at a $59.87 average hourly wage in May 2025 versus $43.09 across all occupations in the metro. For registered nurses, BLS reported a $106,180 median annual wage, with $94,870 at the 25th percentile and $153,380 at the 75th percentile. Proxy signals for current hiring sit in a similar but not identical range: posted salary bands across the category center on about $98k to $130k, Massachusetts mean offered salary on new openings was about $122,846 in August 2026, Boston RN guides cluster around about $118,000 to $119,000, and Boston NP guides cluster around about $138,890 to $158,000 with stronger-candidate ranges up to $180,000 to $205,000. This is a high-pay metro, but the pay mostly buys access to one of the country's more expensive clinical labor markets rather than easy upside. One regional price-parity estimate puts Boston-Cambridge-Newton 8.3% above the U.S. average on cost of living, and much of the hiring is concentrated in large systems with formal pay bands.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH concentrated?

Most real opportunity is clustered inside large health systems and other enterprise employers, even though the market is not dominated by one single organization. Hiring is fragmented across employers in the sample, but about 55% of postings come from enterprise organizations, and the most consistently active names include Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mass General Brigham, BMC Health System, Bay State Physical Therapy, and CVS Health. The practical hiring lanes look narrower than the category label suggests. Most postings are in healthcare and hospital-related industries, which means inpatient care, specialty clinics, outpatient networks, and therapy-heavy settings still do the bulk of the hiring. A second lane is home-based and community care: Mass General Brigham is actively advertising Healthcare at Home roles, and that lines up with the broader shift toward care outside the hospital. The weakest lane is fully remote clinical work. About 85% of postings are on-site and only about 5% are remote, so job seekers who insist on remote-only search filters will artificially shrink their market.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH?

Recent postings show the most activity from Beth Israel Lahey Health, Inc. (200 postings), Mass General Brigham Incorporated (200 postings), BMC Health System (150 postings), Bay State Physical Therapy (100 postings), CVS Health Corporation (100 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Practitioners roles in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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