The findings are from the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, published Aug. 2.
Here are nine numbers from the report that illustrate healthcare’s job trends.
- Healthcare added 55,000 jobs in July, similar to the average monthly gain of 63,000 over the previous 12 months.
- Employment continued to trend up in ambulatory healthcare services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities, adding 26,300, 19,500 and 9,200 jobs, respectively.
- In physician offices, skilled nursing care facilities and home healthcare services, 800, 6,800 and 21,600 jobs were added, respectively.
- However, employment trended down in dentist offices with 100 jobs lost.
