Employment in healthcare increased by 37,000 during March, keeping to about the same increase for each of the past 12 months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Add the last 12 months together and the growth in healthcare employment totals 503,000 new jobs.
Employment rose in ambulatory healthcare services, which was up by 27,000 for the month while hospitals an increase to 10,000 new employees in March.
Healthcare occupations had employment of 12 million in May 2015, representing nearly 9 percent of total national employment, Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported.
Registered nurses, with more than 2.7 million jobs, are the largest healthcare occupation, followed by nursing assistants at 1.4 million, home health aides at 820,630 and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses at 697,250.
Some healthcare occupations were among the highest-paid.
Those included physician and dentist occupations, nurse anesthetists, with an annual mean wage of $160,250; podiatrists at $136,180 and pharmacists at $119,270.
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