United States · NAICS 62 · Annual, 2025

Health Care and Social Assistance in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 62 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Health Care and Social Assistance (NAICS 62) employed about 25,088,000 people in the United States across roughly 2,142,116 establishments, with average annual pay of $68,440.

Employment in Health Care and Social Assistance in the United States grew 16.5% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 25,088,000. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 25,088,000Employment, 2025
  • 2,142,116Establishments
  • $68,440Avg. annual pay
  • 16.1%Share of U.S. jobs

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Health Care and Social Assistance in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 15,748,000 to 25,088,000.010M20M30M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,748,000; 2005 16,105,500; 2006 16,480,700; 2007 16,962,000; 2008 17,433,700; 2009 17,765,000; 2010 18,077,200; 2011 18,368,500; 2012 18,672,600; 2013 19,455,700; 2014 19,783,400; 2015 20,282,500; 2016 20,838,100; 2017 21,298,500; 2018 21,712,000; 2019 22,183,000; 2020 21,544,300; 2021 21,850,600; 2022 22,317,100; 2023 23,294,500; 2024 24,311,500; 2025 25,088,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202525,088,0422,142,116$68,445 3.2%pub.
202424,311,4922,039,907$66,451 4.4%pub.
202323,294,4781,912,918$64,432 4.4%pub.
202222,317,0761,865,567$62,504 2.1%pub.
202121,850,6491,810,305$59,364 1.4%pub.
202021,544,3451,762,099$56,330 2.9%pub.
201922,182,9911,654,924$53,012 2.2%pub.
201821,712,0091,597,297$51,491 1.9%pub.
201721,298,5021,547,220$50,172 2.2%pub.
201620,838,1001,494,175$48,986 2.7%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 4 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of health care and social assistanceSource
621Ambulatory Health Care Services9,186,21136.6%pub.
622Hospitals7,096,51128.3%pub.
623Nursing and Residential Care Facilities3,589,25514.3%pub.
624Social Assistance5,216,06620.8%pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Health Care and Social Assistance in the United States, quarterly, at full depth

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