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Health care support occupations: employees in the U.S. 2016

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Preeti Vankar,

Jun 20, 2022

This statistic shows the number of employees in health care support occupations, in the United States in 2016. In that year, there were over 95,800 massage therapists employed in the United States.

Employment in selected health care support occupations in the United States in 2016

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Characteristic	Number of employees
Dental assistants	327,290
Home health aides	814,300
Massage therapists	95,830
Medical assistants	623,560
Medical equipment preparers	52,500
Medical transcriptionists	54,070
Nursing assistants	1,443,150
Occupational therapist aides	7,210
Occupational therapist assistants	38,170
Orderlies	52,940
Pharmacy aides	3,660
Physical therapist aides	50,030
Physical therapist assistants	85,580
Psychiatric aides	67,410

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Details: United States; Bureau of Labor Statistics; US Department of Labor; 2016

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Sources

US Department of Health and Human Services; US Department of Labor

Survey by

Bureau of Labor Statistics; US Department of Labor

Published by

US Department of Health and Human Services

Source link

Health, United States, 2017, page xii table 87

Release date

September 2018

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

Estimates do not include self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers, or unpaid family workers and were rounded to the nearest 10.

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