Here are national employment levels in 37 jobs within hospitals. Data is the most recent available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April 25.
Maids and housekeeping cleaners
Employment: 771,390
Cooks, institution and cafeteria
Employment: 417,780
Orderlies
Employment: 44,790
Nursing assistants
Employment: 1,310,090
Security guards
Employment: 1,124,890
Emergency medical technicians
Employment: 167,720
Pharmacy technicians
Employment: 453,630
Phlebotomists
Employment: 137,090
Medical records specialists
Employment: 187,720
Paramedics
Employment: 95,440
Surgical technologists
Employment: 107,400
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
Employment: 333,600
Healthcare social workers
Employment: 182,420
Health information technologists and medical registrars
Employment: 35,500
Dietitians and nutritionists
Employment: 69,880
Radiologic technologists and technicians
Employment: 215,820
Respiratory therapists
Employment: 129,910
Public relations specialists
Employment: 264,750
Registered nurses
Employment: 3,072,700
Nuclear medicine technologists
Employment: 16,910
Physical therapists
Employment: 229,740
Nurse practitioners
Employment: 258,230
Physician assistants
Employment: 140,910
Medical and health services managers
Employment: 476,750
Pharmacists
Employment: 325,480
Family medicine physicians
Employment: 100,940
Emergency medicine physicians
Employment: 29,260
Pediatricians, general
Employment: 33,430
Dermatologists
Employment: 11,640
OB-GYNs
Employment: 21,450
Anesthesiologists
Employment: 37,430
Neurologists
Employment: 11,340
Psychiatrists
Employment: 26,500
Radiologists
Employment: 29,250
General internal medicine physicians
Employment: 67,220
Cardiologists
Employment: 16,870
Orthopedic surgeons, except pediatric
Employment: 19,060
