North Carolina · SOC 29-0000 · Annual, 2025

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in North Carolina

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 29-0000 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 326,400 people in North Carolina worked in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (SOC 29-0000), with an average annual wage of $109,190.

Employment in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in North Carolina grew 16.7% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 52.8% above the all-occupations average in North Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 326,400. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 326,400Employment, 2025
  • $109,190Mean annual wage
  • 6.6%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.05Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 207,900 to 326,400.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 207,900; 2005 215,900; 2006 225,300; 2007 232,400; 2008 236,100; 2009 237,800; 2010 240,000; 2011 242,900; 2012 247,900; 2013 252,400; 2014 254,500; 2015 258,900; 2016 263,900; 2017 266,000; 2018 272,600; 2019 279,500; 2020 279,600; 2021 292,900; 2022 296,400; 2023 306,500; 2024 317,500; 2025 326,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025326,400$109,191 2.8%
2024317,511$106,778 3.6%
2023306,542$101,323 3.4%
2022296,429$96,983 1.2%
2021292,877$91,384 4.8%
2020279,593$86,586 0.0%
2019279,477$83,976 2.5%
2018272,612$81,947 2.5%
2017266,018$79,990 0.8%
2016263,894$77,461 1.9%

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

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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