500+ Healthcare Support Jobs in Washington, DC

The cleanest local anchor is BLS: healthcare support occupations averaged about $21.41 an hour in the metro in May 2025. Recent posting samples put hourly roles mostly around about $19 to $25 an hour locally, with pure support roles often centered around $20 to $26. Individual openings can clear that range when they want experience: MedStar posted a medical assistant range of $24.53–$37.44 an hour, and a DC patient care technician posting listed $25.69 an hour.

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Advertised pay

Across the 423 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $45,760 at the 25th percentile, $48,350 at the median and $54,080 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

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is still a workable market, but not an easy one. The clearest local positive is that Washington-area Education and Health Services employment reached 491.1 thousand in July 2026 and was up 0.3679% year over year, while healthcare support occupations already make up 5.1% of metro employment. The drag is that the broader metro lost 103,900 jobs between January 2025 and January 2026, the metro unemployment rate rose to 3.4% in February 2026 from 3.0% a year earlier, and national hiring is converting more slowly from openings into hires. For job seekers, that means real demand is present, but employers can afford to be pickier and slower than raw posting volume alone suggests.

Best positioned: Your best odds are if you can work on-site, already hold bedside-ready credentials such as CPR, BLS, or CNA, and can target medical assistant, patient care tech, or home-health openings rather than remote admin-only roles.

Main caution: Do not assume the bigger salaried healthcare-administration ranges are typical frontline pay; local support roles cluster much closer to about $19 to $25 an hour, while management-heavy admin roles skew the top end.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 523 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. MedStar Health: 57 open roles
2. Johns Hopkins Medicine: 30 open roles
3. Inova Health System, Inc.: 24 open roles
4. DaVita Inc.: 23 open roles
5. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: 22 open roles
6. Adventist HealthCare: 21 open roles
7. Mercy Medical Center, Inc.: 20 open roles
8. VHC Health: 17 open roles
9. Luminis Health, Inc.: 15 open roles
10. CRH Healthcare, LLC: 14 open roles

Where the openings are

• Baltimore: 92
• Washington: 56
• Silver Spring: 31
• Arlington: 26
• Annapolis: 22
• Rockville: 18
• Bethesda: 17
• Fairfax: 16

Work arrangement

on-site 509 (99%), hybrid 4 (1%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not remote office work. In the recent local sample, about 50% of postings came from "healthcare" employers and about 35% from "hospitals and health care," with the most consistently active names including MedStar Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Inova, DaVita Inc., and VHC Health. The practical hiring lanes are bedside support, outpatient rooming, and patient-flow work. Fresh August and early-September examples include MedStar medical assistants in DC, Sentara patient care technicians in Woodbridge, and Human Touch home health aides across Washington, DC. Evidence is much stronger for frontline support than for pure back-office administration in the freshest local data. Medical assistant work remains the clearest hybrid because BLS describes it as combining appointment scheduling with hands-on clinical tasks such as taking vital signs.

• Large health systems and hospitals (high): This is the thickest part of the visible market, led by MedStar Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Inova, DaVita Inc., and VHC Health in the recent sample.
• Outpatient clinic and medical assistant work (high): Live local postings show active medical assistant demand, and BLS duties explain why these jobs travel well between clinical support and administrative workflow.
• Home health and flexible aide coverage (moderate): Human Touch posted both weekend PRN and standard home health aide openings in late August, which points to recurring need but often with variable schedules.
• Pure office-only healthcare administration (limited): The freshest local evidence is thinner here, and the market is overwhelmingly on-site rather than remote, so office-only applicants face a narrower lane.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site hospital and outpatient roles, then widen to home health if speed matters more than schedule stability.

Roles worth searching next

• Phlebotomist: Local postings already ask for phlebotomy, so this is a natural next step for medical assistants and techs who like specimen work.
• EMT / Emergency Department Technician: A local patient care technician posting accepts EMT backgrounds, showing real overlap between bedside support and emergency-care support.
• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN): If you already do patient care, vital signs, and medication-related support tasks, LPN is a logical licensed step up from this category's bedside roles.
• Healthcare operations coordinator: Medical assistants already sit between scheduling and hands-on care, so moving toward clinic operations or patient-flow coordination is a realistic nonlicensed pivot.

What postings ask for

• CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): CPR certification is the most commonly named credential in local postings, so it helps clear early screening quickly. Who: Entry-level bedside applicants and career switchers.
• BLS certification (differentiator | immediate): BLS appears regularly in local postings and signals readiness for hospital, urgent care, and higher-acuity support settings. Who: Anyone targeting hospital, urgent care, or patient care tech roles.
• CNA (differentiator | near-term): CNA shows up among common local credentials, and a current DC patient care technician posting explicitly prefers CNA or acute-care experience. Who: People aiming for bedside support, long-term care, or hospital tech roles.
• Phlebotomy (premium | near-term): Phlebotomy appears in about 20% of local postings, making it one of the clearest skill-based boosters for clinic and medical-assistant access. Who: Medical assistant candidates and career switchers who want faster outpatient traction.
• Vital signs monitoring (table_stakes | immediate): Vital signs monitoring appears in about 20% of local postings and sits at the core of both bedside and outpatient support work. Who: Nearly everyone in this category, especially entry-level candidates.
• Medical terminology (differentiator | near-term): Medical terminology appears in local postings and matters most when the role mixes patient care with documentation, scheduling, or records work. Who: Candidates trying to bridge from pure support into hybrid admin-support jobs.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles pay in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV?

The cleanest local anchor is BLS: healthcare support occupations averaged about $21.41 an hour in the metro in May 2025. Recent posting samples put hourly roles mostly around about $19 to $25 an hour locally, with pure support roles often centered around $20 to $26. Individual openings can clear that range when they want experience: MedStar posted a medical assistant range of $24.53–$37.44 an hour, and a DC patient care technician posting listed $25.69 an hour. That is decent nominal pay for support work, but it is still modest relative to Washington's overall wage level. The metro's average hourly wage across all occupations was $44.20 in May 2025, versus about $21.41 for healthcare support, so these jobs usually provide steady entry and mid-skill access more than top-tier local purchasing power.

Where is demand for Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not remote office work. In the recent local sample, about 50% of postings came from "healthcare" employers and about 35% from "hospitals and health care," with the most consistently active names including MedStar Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Inova, DaVita Inc., and VHC Health. The practical hiring lanes are bedside support, outpatient rooming, and patient-flow work. Fresh August and early-September examples include MedStar medical assistants in DC, Sentara patient care technicians in Woodbridge, and Human Touch home health aides across Washington, DC. Evidence is much stronger for frontline support than for pure back-office administration in the freshest local data. Medical assistant work remains the clearest hybrid because BLS describes it as combining appointment scheduling with hands-on clinical tasks such as taking vital signs.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration talent in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV?

Recent postings show the most activity from MedStar Health (75 postings), Johns Hopkins Medicine (50 postings), Inova (40 postings), DaVita Inc. (40 postings), VHC Health (40 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration roles in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 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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