1,400+ Physician Assistant Jobs Near Me (Hiring Now in Aug 2026)

Searching for physician assistant jobs near me usually means wading through ghost postings, recruiter bait, and roles that were filled before you ever saw them. This page fixes that. As of Aug 2026, it tracks 1,400+ open physician assistant jobs nationwide, each one gathered directly from the hiring health system's or clinic's own career page. Closed roles drop off automatically, so the count you see is a live number, not a stale index of last quarter's market.

PA hiring is national, and this hub is built to match. It pulls openings from academic medical centers, regional health systems, specialty physician groups, and community clinics across the country into one feed, then links out to dedicated county pages, including Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County, at the bottom of this page. Scan nationally to see where your specialty is hiring, then switch to the local pages once you are ready to commit to one market.

The most concrete pay data available comes from public payroll records, and two California counties define the top of the market. Physician assistants employed by Los Angeles County, 68 of them across its health system, earn a median total compensation of $313,147 per year according to the Physician Assistant salary data for Los Angeles County. In Santa Clara County, the 35 county employed PAs show a median of $302,641, per the Physician Assistant salary data for Santa Clara County. Those figures represent experienced clinicians in public safety net systems in the most expensive state in the country, so read them as the ceiling of the profession, not the median offer nationwide.

Most markets pay below those reference points, and the spread follows consistent rules. Surgical subspecialties, critical care, and overnight coverage pay more than daytime primary care. Large systems tend to offer stronger benefits and structured advancement, while smaller groups sometimes trade that structure for higher base pay or productivity bonuses. Geography still matters even in a shortage driven market, since systems in expensive metros and hard to staff regions both bid up compensation, just for different reasons. The two payroll pages linked above are the calibration tools: study what total compensation looks like at the top, then weigh every offer against your market's cost of living rather than against a national average.

When you evaluate a specific offer, look past the base number. Call pay, night and weekend differentials, retirement matching, CME allowances, licensure and DEA fee coverage, and malpractice terms move real money, especially in surgical and ICU roles where extra coverage is routine. Two offers with identical salaries can land tens of percentage points apart in actual value once those lines are counted.

Academic and major metropolitan systems anchor the list. NYU Langone Health is hiring PAs into surgical services, including overnight roles, the University of Michigan staffs advanced practice roles across its academic medical center, and Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group hires PAs directly into its specialty practices. Ochsner Health System does the same across the Gulf South, and UF Health posts surgical PA roles in Florida, including ENT positions with full time day schedules.

Regional and community employers round out the feed. Kaleida Health and Nuvance Health hire across upstate New York and the Connecticut and Hudson Valley region, Mercy Medical Center posts hospital based roles, and Upson Regional Medical Center brings the same work to a smaller Georgia community, where a PA often carries broader responsibility earlier. Umma Community Clinic hires PAs for community primary care in Los Angeles, the kind of role where the panel is the neighborhood and continuity is the entire job. Same license, radically different practice styles, all on one page.

Surgical and acute care roles are the deepest bench here. Current examples include Physician Assistant positions in heart and lung transplant surgery, surgical oncology and vascular surgery with night coverage, ENT surgery, and acute care roles in a thoracic cardiovascular surgical ICU. These jobs favor PAs who are comfortable with procedures, first assisting, and fast moving inpatient rhythms, and the night and ICU variants typically carry pay premiums for the schedule.

Primary care and outpatient roles form the other pillar, from community clinic positions to specialty office practice. Many hospital postings are written as Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner, meaning the system credentials either license for the same seat, so do not skip dual titled listings; you are the intended audience. Schedules span standard clinic weeks, compressed full time blocks, part time coverage, and dedicated nights, which makes it worth filtering by the rhythm you actually want to live rather than by title alone.

A note on how to read the feed: physician assistant listings concentrate in systems that already run large advanced practice teams, so a cluster of postings from one employer usually signals a real staffing build rather than churn. Transplant, oncology, and ICU services in particular hire in groups when they expand coverage models, which is why several of the surgical roles here appear alongside sibling postings on the same service. If you see the specialty you want at a system you like, apply even if the specific shift is wrong, because credentialed internal candidates move between services far more easily than outside applicants get in. That is also the moment to negotiate, since a team staffing up has budget approved and seats it needs filled.

The credential path is standardized nationally. You need a master's degree from an ARC-PA accredited physician assistant program, a passing score on the PANCE, the national certifying exam administered by the NCCPA, and then a license from the medical board in the state where you will practice. Prescribing requires DEA registration, which employers typically expect you to hold or obtain at hire. Maintaining certification means ongoing CME and periodic recertification, and hospital roles add credentialing paperwork that can take weeks, so start document collection early.

For surgical and ICU roles, highlight rotations and procedural experience: first assist cases, lines and airways, and the specific services you have covered. New graduates should target postings that mention structured onboarding or dual PA or NP eligibility, since those teams are built to train, while experienced PAs should lead with case volumes and the EMR systems they know. Keep BLS and ACLS current, and list every state license you hold, because multistate flexibility makes you easier to hire.

Browse the live openings below and filter by specialty, setting, and schedule. Every listing links directly to the employer's own career page, so your application goes into the health system's real applicant tracking system, not a recruiter's inbox. Apply to several roles at once, keep your certification, license numbers, and CV ready to upload, and expect credentialing to set the timeline more than the interview does. If California's top paying county systems interest you, the dedicated county pages linked at the bottom of this page break out live openings for Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County. Every listing on this page is verified and sourced directly from employer career pages, so each one is current and actively hiring.

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