Demand Details

Details for Selected Occupation :

Area Name :

Washington State

Occupation Title :

Medical Assistants

Occupational Group :

Healthcare Support Occupations

Description :

Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician. Exclude "Physician Assistants" (29-1071).

Demand Designation :

Demand

Demand Rank :

Estimated Employment :

11,550

Projected Employment :

11,934

Annual
Growth Rate :

1.65%

Annual Openings :

302

Short-Term Trend:

growth

Long-Term Trend :

growth

Annual Wage :

$33,999.00

UI Ratio :

2.68%

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Data Source : WA State Employment Security Dept. : Labor Market Economic Analysis
Website : Learn About an Occupation

Wage Data : is for March 2011
Employment Data (including Growth Rates and Estimated and Projected Employment: is for 2nd Qrtr. 2010 - 2nd Qrtr. 2012 (published May 2011)
Demand Data : published in May 2011.

The UI Ratio is the number of unemployment insurance claims divided by estimated employment for second quarter 2010.
A lower number indicates that fewer UI Claims were made for the given occupation and a blank ratio -- indicated by just a '%' sign -- shows that no UI Claims were made for the occupation.

Demand Designations : are relative to a given area. So, an occupation deemed to be 'Not In Demand' statewide could still be 'In Demand' within a sub-state area, such as, Spokane.

For comparison purposes the average Wages and Growth Rates by Area within Washington are as follow:

Area Name	Mean Annual Wage	Mean Hourly Wage	Average Short-term Growth Rate
Washington State	$49,514	$23.80	1.49%
Olympic Consortium	$45,566	$21.91	0.86%
Pacific Mountain	$43,760	$21.04	1.22%
Northwest	$41,861	$20.12	1.40%
Snohomish County	$50,213	$24.14	1.84%
Seattle-King County	$56,287	$27.06	1.67%
Pierce County	$46,161	$22.19	1.37%
SW Washington	$45,103	$21.69	1.57%
North Central Washington	$38,932	$18.71	1.03%
South Central	$39,008	$18.76	0.88%
Eastern Washington	$42,691	$20.53	0.93%
Benton-Franklin	$48,214	$23.18	1.18%
Spokane	$42,594	$20.48	1.66%

Further information regarding the data, including a description of the methodology used to construct the Demand-Decline rankings for individual occupations, can be found in the 'About the Data' section of this website.

The data used by EconQuery are derived from public sources.

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