Healthcare Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Observed local government data puts the healthcare practitioner and technical family at a $96,270 annual median, a $107,880 annual mean, and a $51.86 mean hourly wage in the Philadelphia metro. Separate posting-based signals are directionally similar but not identical: local advertised ranges center on about $81k to $105k, hourly-paid postings center on about $45 to $57 / hour, and statewide new-opening offered pay averaged about $108,750 in September 2026 based on a sample of 4,764 openings.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 752 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $90,000 at the 25th percentile, $100,880 at the median and $124,800 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

Philadelphia is still a workable market for healthcare practitioners, but it is not an easy one to coast into. The metro employed 213,800 healthcare practitioners and technical workers in 2025, equal to 7.4% of local employment. The local education and health services supersector reached 748.2 thousand jobs in August 2026, up 1.4508% year over year, while statewide proxy data showed healthcare practitioner employment up 1.9% but active postings down 10.5%. That mix points to real demand, but fewer easy wins and more selective hiring than a year ago.

Best positioned: Already-licensed clinicians who can work on-site, fit hospital or outpatient workflows, and already carry BLS, CPR, or ACLS have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not treat this as one uniform market: broad pay figures blend physicians, registered nurses, therapists, pharmacists, dentists, and technologists, and the local summary release does not surface occupation-specific metro medians on the page most job seekers will see.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,665 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Jefferson Health: 176 open roles
2. Jefferson Health: 154 open roles
3. Jefferson Health Plans: 140 open roles
4. Virtua Health, Inc.: 78 open roles
5. Temple Health: 67 open roles
6. Cooper University Health Care: 66 open roles
7. Penn Medicine: 48 open roles
8. Novacare: 37 open roles
9. Ivy Rehab: 31 open roles
10. Trinity Health Corp.: 29 open roles

Where the openings are

• Philadelphia: 535
• Camden: 99
• Wilmington: 85
• Abington Township: 66
• Langhorne: 42
• Voorhees: 35
• Washington Township: 34
• Cherry Hill: 33

Work arrangement

on-site 1,573 (96%), remote 35 (2%), hybrid 34 (2%)

Where the demand is

Most opportunity is concentrated in patient-facing delivery settings, not evenly across every practitioner subfield. In the local posting mix, hospitals and health care account for about 40% and broader healthcare organizations for about 35%, with another about 15% in health care services and hospitals and about 5% in mental health care. That makes employer type and care setting more important than the metro average. The market is not winner-take-all: the posting sample was fragmented across more than 550 companies and more than 3,200 postings over the last 90 days, with named activity led by Jefferson Health, Jefferson Health Plans, and Virtua Health. Real expansion signals are leaning outpatient and community-based too: Penn Medicine and partners announced at least 18 ambulatory surgery centers, ChristianaCare is adding rehab and campus capacity in Delaware, and Virtua launched New Jersey's first Mobile Integrated Health program.

• Hospitals and large health systems (high): The biggest share of local opportunity sits in hospitals and health care plus broader healthcare organizations, which together make up about three-quarters of the local posting mix.
• Outpatient surgery, rehab, and multi-site care (high): Penn Medicine's ambulatory surgery expansion, ChristianaCare's rehab build-out, and regional multi-site growth all point to stronger odds in outpatient, perioperative, rehab, and community-based care settings.
• Mental health and narrower specialty niches (moderate): Mental health care appears in about 5% of the local posting mix, so there is opportunity, but the volume is smaller and the fit is more specialty-specific.

Where to focus: Prioritize on-site roles inside large health systems and expanding outpatient platforms, especially if your license aligns with surgery, rehab, imaging, chronic-care management, or high-volume adult medicine.

Roles worth searching next

• Clinical documentation improvement specialist: Local employer signals repeatedly call for clinical documentation and evidence-based practice, so experienced clinicians can translate bedside credibility into documentation-improvement work.
• Utilization review or care management specialist: Patient education, discharge planning, and treatment planning are recurring local asks, which lines up well with payer-provider care-management work.
• Clinical informatics or EHR optimization specialist: Healthcare employers are placing more value on AI fluency, clinical data analytics, and digital-health integration.
• Quality improvement or patient safety analyst: Evidence-based practice is requested locally, and newer healthcare microcredentials increasingly emphasize patient safety and analytics.

What postings ask for

• BLS (table_stakes | immediate): BLS appears in about 10% of local practitioner postings, making it a common screen-in credential rather than a bonus. Who: Anyone targeting hospital, clinic, procedural, or urgent patient-facing roles.
• CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): CPR certification also appears in about 10% of local postings, which means missing it can block otherwise qualified applicants early in the process. Who: Entry-level and recently licensed clinicians first, then anyone returning after a gap.
• ACLS (differentiator | immediate): ACLS shows up less often than BLS or CPR at about 5% of postings, so it functions more as an acute-care differentiator than a universal baseline. Who: Candidates targeting acute care, cardiac, perioperative, emergency, and higher-acuity roles.
• Patient assessment (table_stakes | immediate): Patient assessment appears in about 30% of local postings, the clearest core skill in the sample. Who: All direct-care practitioners, especially early-career candidates who need to prove readiness fast.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): Clinical documentation appears in about 20% of local postings and transfers well into documentation, quality, and utilization-review adjacent work if bedside hiring stalls. Who: Mid-career clinicians and switchers looking for a bridge out of pure bedside work.
• Patient education and discharge planning (differentiator | near-term): Patient education, discharge planning, and treatment planning each appear in about 15% of local postings, which favors clinicians who can manage handoffs and outcomes, not just task execution. Who: Nurses, therapists, rehab professionals, and anyone targeting care management or post-acute transitions.

Questions about this market

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

Observed local government data puts the healthcare practitioner and technical family at a $96,270 annual median, a $107,880 annual mean, and a $51.86 mean hourly wage in the Philadelphia metro. Separate posting-based signals are directionally similar but not identical: local advertised ranges center on about $81k to $105k, hourly-paid postings center on about $45 to $57 / hour, and statewide new-opening offered pay averaged about $108,750 in September 2026 based on a sample of 4,764 openings. This is a solid-paying market. The local median for the broad occupation family is above the U.S. median of $86,530, while the local mean sits close to the national mean of $108,700. In plain English, Philadelphia pays like a serious healthcare market, but not every role gets the physician-and-advanced-practice uplift embedded in the family average.

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

Most opportunity is concentrated in patient-facing delivery settings, not evenly across every practitioner subfield. In the local posting mix, hospitals and health care account for about 40% and broader healthcare organizations for about 35%, with another about 15% in health care services and hospitals and about 5% in mental health care. That makes employer type and care setting more important than the metro average. The market is not winner-take-all: the posting sample was fragmented across more than 550 companies and more than 3,200 postings over the last 90 days, with named activity led by Jefferson Health, Jefferson Health Plans, and Virtua Health. Real expansion signals are leaning outpatient and community-based too: Penn Medicine and partners announced at least 18 ambulatory surgery centers, ChristianaCare is adding rehab and campus capacity in Delaware, and Virtua launched New Jersey's first Mobile Integrated Health program.

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 (200 postings), Jefferson Health Plans (175 postings), Virtua Health (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, 0% 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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