This up to date chart assortment takes a deep dive into employment knowledge to research how well being sector jobs and wages have modified for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic. Not like earlier recessions, healthcare employment noticed a big decline in early 2020 however has since recovered. As of February 2024, the healthcare sector has added 66,700 jobs prior to now month. Jobs within the healthcare sector are up 5.7% in comparison with February 2020 (the earlier peak), in comparison with 3.4% in all different sectors.

Nonetheless, not all healthcare employment traits have recovered. Whereas hospitals and physician's workplaces have returned to pre-pandemic employment ranges, sectors akin to senior care and expert nursing amenities stay comparatively underemployment. Employment in aged care reached a low of 869,500 in January 2022 and has grown barely since then. These amenities had 974,600 staff nationwide in February 2020, and 965,100 in February 2024 – a lower of 1%. Expert nursing amenities have seen an 8.3% decline in employment since February 2020.

The chart assortment is out there on the Peterson-KFF Well being System Tracker, a web based useful resource heart devoted to monitoring and assessing the efficiency of the U.S. well being care system