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Recent Report from NCCPA Shows 12.5% Increase in PA Salaries

2017 Statistical Profile of Certified PAs by State Shows Increase in PA Salaries

The 2017 Statistical Profile of Certified Physician Assistants by State was released January, 2019. In the last five years PA salaries have increased by 12.5%. This is an increase of about 2.5% annually, which is less than other reports.

The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) is the only certifying body for PAs in the U.S. It was established in 1974 and has certified more than 150,000 PAs. It has collected data on PAs since 1975. The data is collected using an instrument on the NCCPA website, as users create a profile. This is the fourth year that this report has been released and uses data from December 31, 2017. Over 112,485 of the 123,089 certified PAs provided responses.

The report gives information based on PAs across the U.S., as well as by state. The information includes: certified PAs by gender, certified PAs age group, percent of certified PAs by race, top practice areas of certified PAs, top practice setting of certified PAs, salary range of all certified PAs, educational debt of recently certified PAs and percent of payer mix.

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For this report base salary and bonus are combined for an overall salary range. The median salary of all certified PAs was $105,000 across the U.S. Nevada had the highest average salaries for certified PAs at $120,395.

Although, we have seen increases in PA salaries, it takes a lot of educational debt to get to that point. According to the report the median educational debt was $137,500 for recently certified PAs, which was more than their annual salary.

Even though this report uses data that is two years old, the overall response rate of 91.4% makes it one of the more valid reports on PA salaries. This report does show increases in salary, but the increases are less than other reports. The past year has shown signs of salaries plateauing, but prior to that, most reports showed larger increases than inflation. While salaries might not be increasing as much, there are still plenty of signs that the profession has been growing.

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