1,750+ Nursing & Healthcare Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Observed local wage data is strong: BLS puts healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in the metro at a mean $52.26 per hour in May 2025, versus $34.49 for all local occupations. Directional posting data points the same way but should be read more cautiously: recent local postings center on about $82k to $105k or about $45 to $57 / hour, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new Pennsylvania healthcare practitioner openings at about $110,487 in August 2026 (n=6,722).

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Advertised pay

Across the 850 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $90,000 at the 25th percentile, $104,000 at the median and $124,878 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

This is a good market if you are already licensed and can target a specific care setting, but it is not an easy market for broad, unspecialized applications. The metro unemployment rate was 4.2% in July 2026, Education and Health Services employment reached 759.6 thousand in June 2026 and was up 2.1792% year over year, and BLS puts mean pay for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations at $52.26 an hour locally. The catch is selectivity: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Pennsylvania healthcare practitioner employment up 2.0% year over year while active postings were down 10.3% year over year. Fresh local signals still show live demand in specialty inpatient nursing, clinic float coverage, home health, and city public-health NP hiring.

Best positioned: Licensed candidates who can show recent specialty experience, current BLS/ACLS/CPR, and a clear match to inpatient, ambulatory, home-health, or advanced-practice workflows have the best odds.

Main caution: The biggest trap is treating this as one big healthcare market; pay is strong, but the easiest wins are concentrated in specific licensed specialties and mostly on-site roles.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,853 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Jefferson Health: 167 open roles
2. Jefferson Health: 137 open roles
3. Jefferson Health Plans: 125 open roles
4. Virtua Health: 71 open roles
5. Cooper University Health Care: 68 open roles
6. Penn Medicine: 68 open roles
7. Trinity Health Mid Atlantic: 61 open roles
8. Ivy Rehab: 55 open roles
9. Trinity Health: 53 open roles
10. Inspira Health Network: 33 open roles

Where the openings are

• Philadelphia: 574
• Camden: 99
• Wilmington: 98
• Langhorne: 54
• Voorhees: 50
• Stratford: 39
• Lansdale: 39
• Abington: 34

Work arrangement

on-site 1,749 (96%), remote 37 (2%), hybrid 29 (2%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is spread across a long tail rather than dominated by one system. The Callings.ai job database observed more than 3,700 postings across more than 600 companies over the last 90 days, and the employer mix in that sample is fragmented. The most consistently active named employers included Jefferson Health, Jefferson Health Plans, and Trinity Health Mid Atlantic. The freshest role-level evidence skews heavily toward nursing and bedside-adjacent clinical work. Recent local postings show activity in PCU/stepdown, critical care, labor and delivery travel, outpatient float, home health, and city public-health NP roles, which suggests the clearest live lanes right now are inpatient specialty nursing, community-based nursing, and selected advanced-practice roles. This is also a very in-person market. About 95% of sampled postings are on-site, and the mix leans early- and mid-career, with about 45% entry and about 55% mid-level postings. If you want faster traction, target employers where your recent setting already matches the care environment instead of spraying applications across unrelated specialties.

• Hospital specialty nursing (high): PCU/stepdown and critical care roles are active, and a Philadelphia Level I trauma center posted a labor-and-delivery travel contract at $2,261–$2,406 weekly.
• Community and clinic-based nursing (high): A home health RN role listed $80,000–$120,000 and a local outpatient float RN contract listed $38–40 per hour, showing ongoing demand outside the hospital walls as well.
• Advanced practice in public and ambulatory care (moderate): The City of Philadelphia posted CRNP openings, including a women's health role with a $3,000 hiring bonus, and national wage context suggests ambulatory and office-based care can pay well for physicians and APPs.

Where to focus: Focus on one care setting and one patient population, then target hospitals, home health, or public/ambulatory employers that match that story.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient Care Technician: It is a practical bridge for people who want bedside exposure before moving into a licensed practitioner path, and it appears among the top healthcare certifications highlighted for 2026.
• Phlebotomy Technician: It can get career switchers into patient-facing care quickly and is one of the commonly highlighted healthcare certifications for 2026.
• Pharmacy Technician: It is the clearest adjacent option for people interested in pharmacy workflows but not yet ready for a pharmacist path, and it is specifically called out among 2026 healthcare certifications.
• Medical Billing and Coding Specialist: It is a reasonable pivot for clinicians who want to stay near healthcare operations while moving away from direct bedside care, and it remains one of the highlighted healthcare certifications for 2026.
• Medical Administrative Assistant: It fits candidates who want a healthcare foothold without immediate clinical licensure and is listed among notable healthcare certifications for 2026.

What postings ask for

• BLS (Basic Life Support) (table_stakes | immediate): BLS is the most commonly cited credential in local Healthcare Practitioners postings, appearing in about 15% of ads. Who: Almost anyone pursuing direct patient-care roles.
• ACLS (differentiator | immediate): ACLS appears in about 5% of local postings and is most useful when you are targeting acute-care, stepdown, critical-care, or other higher-acuity settings. Who: RNs, NPs, and clinicians targeting inpatient or urgent settings.
• Patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): Patient assessment is the most requested hard skill in the local sample, showing up in about 30% of postings. Who: Every bedside or clinic-based candidate.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | near-term): Clinical documentation appears in about 15% of local postings, and AI-scribe deployments have been associated with a 40-45% reduction in physician documentation time using tools such as Nuance DAX Copilot, Suki AI, Abridge, and Nabla. Who: Physicians, APPs, nurses, and anyone interviewing with documentation-heavy employers.
• Patient education and discharge planning (differentiator | immediate): Patient education appears in about 15% of local postings and discharge planning in about 10%, which signals demand for clinicians who can handle continuity-of-care work, not just hands-on treatment. Who: Med-surg, home health, rehab, and ambulatory-care candidates.
• AI literacy and adaptability (premium | near-term): For pharmacists in 2026, AI literacy and adaptability are emerging as top soft skills, and employers more broadly are looking for healthcare professionals who can use AI tools, adapt to new technology, and evaluate information critically. Who: Pharmacists, APPs, physicians, and clinicians working in documentation- or decision-support-heavy environments.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Observed local wage data is strong: BLS puts healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in the metro at a mean $52.26 per hour in May 2025, versus $34.49 for all local occupations. Directional posting data points the same way but should be read more cautiously: recent local postings center on about $82k to $105k or about $45 to $57 / hour, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new Pennsylvania healthcare practitioner openings at about $110,487 in August 2026 (n=6,722). This is comfortably above the Philadelphia County living-wage benchmark of $23.34 per hour, so licensed practitioners can clear a solid income threshold here once they are in the right lane.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD concentrated?

Opportunity is spread across a long tail rather than dominated by one system. The Callings.ai job database observed more than 3,700 postings across more than 600 companies over the last 90 days, and the employer mix in that sample is fragmented. The most consistently active named employers included Jefferson Health, Jefferson Health Plans, and Trinity Health Mid Atlantic. The freshest role-level evidence skews heavily toward nursing and bedside-adjacent clinical work. Recent local postings show activity in PCU/stepdown, critical care, labor and delivery travel, outpatient float, home health, and city public-health NP roles, which suggests the clearest live lanes right now are inpatient specialty nursing, community-based nursing, and selected advanced-practice roles. This is also a very in-person market. About 95% of sampled postings are on-site, and the mix leans early- and mid-career, with about 45% entry and about 55% mid-level postings. If you want faster traction, target employers where your recent setting already matches the care environment instead of spraying applications across unrelated specialties.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD?

Recent postings show the most activity from Jefferson Health (300 postings), Jefferson Health Plans (175 postings), Trinity Health Mid Atlantic (100 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Practitioners roles in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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