Job prospects Physician Assistant in Saskatchewan

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Job opportunities in Saskatchewan

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be good for Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals (NOC 31303) in Saskatchewan for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to several new positions.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• An aging and growing population is creating greater demand on the health care system.
• The provincial government has a Health Human Resources (HHR) Action Plan to recruit, train, incentivize and retain health care providers.
• There is high demand for this occupation as the provincial government ramps up initiatives to address persisting labour shortages across the health care sector.
• Initiatives to support home and community care services and investments in health care facilities.

Here are some key facts about Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals in Saskatchewan:

• Approximately 50 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Hospitals (NAICS 622): 82%
  • Ambulatory health care services (NAICS 621): 18%
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: n/a
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 33% compared to 33% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: n/a
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: n/a
  • bachelor's degree: 33% compared to 18% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 22% compared to 7% for all occupations

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