Healthcare Jobs in New York, NY

Observed local wage data is strong: BLS put the metro's mean pay for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations at $62.24 per hour in May 2025, with annual pay for the broad occupation family at $108,820 at the median, $129,450 at the mean, $80,150 at the 25th percentile, and $138,360 at the 75th percentile. Current posted pay is directionally similar but should be treated as proxy data: recent listings center on about $100k to $130k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $80k to $182k, and hourly-paid postings center on about $50 to $66 / hour.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 2,840 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $98,790 at the 25th percentile, $119,943 at the median and $150,977 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is a solid but more selective market for licensed healthcare practitioners. The metro's unemployment rate was 4.7% in August 2026, down from 5.3% a year earlier, and education and health services employment was up 3.0748% year over year, signaling continued local demand. The metro employed 603,870 workers in this occupation family in 2025 and paid $108,820 at the median and $129,450 at the mean, so the upside is real. But statewide proxy data from Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows healthcare practitioner employment up 2.4% year over year while active postings were down 15.0% year over year, so openings are still there but employers appear pickier than a year ago.

Best positioned: Licensed clinicians who can work on-site, match hospital workflows, and show current BLS or ACLS where relevant have the best odds.

Main caution: Do not confuse high average pay with an easy search: most roles are on-site, hospital-centered, and screened for setting-specific clinical documentation and assessment skills.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 3,575 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc.: 241 open roles
2. RWJBarnabas Health Inc: 224 open roles
3. Northwell Health, Inc.: 178 open roles
4. Atlantic Health: 142 open roles
5. NYU Langone: 80 open roles
6. Matrix Medical Network: 59 open roles
7. Fox Rehab: 51 open roles
8. Montefiore Health System: 46 open roles
9. Virtua Health: 41 open roles
10. NewYork-Presbyterian: 40 open roles

Where the openings are

• New York: 817
• Bronx: 144
• Morristown: 125
• Brooklyn: 123
• Newark: 89
• New Brunswick: 80
• Hackensack: 68
• Neptune City: 55

Work arrangement

on-site 3,265 (93%), hybrid 124 (4%), remote 110 (3%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in hospital and hospital-adjacent employers, not in remote-first care. Over the last 90 days, the market showed more than 8,300 postings across more than 1,200 companies, but the largest industry slices were healthcare (about 40%), hospitals and health care (about 40%), and health care services & hospitals (about 10%). Named leaders in the sample were Hackensack Meridian Health, RWJBarnabas Health, and Atlantic Health, while the employer base overall remained fragmented rather than winner-take-all. A second pocket of opportunity sits in high-acuity and public settings where staffing pressure is visible. NYC Health + Hospitals behavioral-health nurses reported staffing below unit ratios in late September, and the same union update said nurses won 14 new emergency-department positions the week before publication. That does not make public systems easy to enter, but it does suggest that understaffed units and hard-to-fill shifts may move faster than lower-acuity or convenience-focused openings.

• Large multihospital systems (high): This is the clearest opportunity pool, led by Hackensack Meridian Health, RWJBarnabas Health, and Atlantic Health, with demand spread across a fragmented long tail beyond those names.
• Public, behavioral health, and emergency care settings (moderate): Staffing-ratio complaints in behavioral health and the addition of 14 emergency-department positions point to ongoing need in harder-to-staff frontline environments.
• Remote or hybrid clinical roles (limited): Only about 5% of postings are hybrid and about 5% are remote, so flexibility seekers are competing for a much smaller slice of the market.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site hospital system roles matched to your exact license, specialty, and care setting; only after that should you spend serious time on remote or nontraditional openings.

Roles worth searching next

• Clinical documentation specialist: It uses charting, compliance, and clinical judgment without always requiring the same bedside intensity as core practitioner roles.
• Patient navigator or care coordinator: It keeps you close to patient education, referrals, follow-up, and interdisciplinary handoffs.
• Quality improvement or utilization review analyst: It fits clinicians who can translate documentation, outcomes, and workflows into operational decisions.
• Medical assistant or patient care technician: For career switchers, these roles provide live care-setting exposure and a path to references, hours, and internal mobility.

What postings ask for

• BLS certification (table_stakes | immediate): BLS was the most commonly named certification signal in local postings, appearing in about 10% of the sample. Who: New grads, bedside clinicians, and anyone applying into direct patient-care roles.
• ACLS (differentiator | immediate): ACLS appeared in about 5% of local postings and is especially useful when competing for acute-care, step-down, procedural, or emergency-adjacent roles. Who: RNs and other practitioners targeting hospital-based or higher-acuity settings.
• Patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): Patient assessment was the most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 25% of postings. Who: All direct-care applicants, especially entry-level and bedside candidates.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): Clinical documentation showed up in about 15% of local postings, making charting quality a real screening factor rather than just routine job maintenance. Who: Anyone whose resume undersells EMR use, throughput, compliance, or handoff quality.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration (differentiator | immediate): Interdisciplinary collaboration appeared in about 10% of local postings, which matters in team-based inpatient and specialty settings. Who: Mid-career clinicians moving between care settings or stepping into charge-style responsibilities.
• AI-powered documentation and charting (premium | near-term): AI-powered documentation and charting skills are now cited as one of the top AI skill areas for nurses, and ambient documentation is emerging quickly in clinical workflows. Who: Experienced clinicians who want to show they can work productively in tech-enabled systems rather than being displaced by them.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Observed local wage data is strong: BLS put the metro's mean pay for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations at $62.24 per hour in May 2025, with annual pay for the broad occupation family at $108,820 at the median, $129,450 at the mean, $80,150 at the 25th percentile, and $138,360 at the 75th percentile. Current posted pay is directionally similar but should be treated as proxy data: recent listings center on about $100k to $130k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $80k to $182k, and hourly-paid postings center on about $50 to $66 / hour. This is a high-paying metro for the category, but the headline numbers blend physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, dentists, and imaging staff, so your actual market value depends heavily on license and specialty.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in hospital and hospital-adjacent employers, not in remote-first care. Over the last 90 days, the market showed more than 8,300 postings across more than 1,200 companies, but the largest industry slices were healthcare (about 40%), hospitals and health care (about 40%), and health care services & hospitals (about 10%). Named leaders in the sample were Hackensack Meridian Health, RWJBarnabas Health, and Atlantic Health, while the employer base overall remained fragmented rather than winner-take-all. A second pocket of opportunity sits in high-acuity and public settings where staffing pressure is visible. NYC Health + Hospitals behavioral-health nurses reported staffing below unit ratios in late September, and the same union update said nurses won 14 new emergency-department positions the week before publication. That does not make public systems easy to enter, but it does suggest that understaffed units and hard-to-fill shifts may move faster than lower-acuity or convenience-focused openings.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?

Recent postings show the most activity from Hackensack Meridian Health (400 postings), RWJBarnabas Health (300 postings), Atlantic Health (175 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Practitioners roles in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

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