DATA: Healthcare jobs on the rise in the Valley, but is it enough?

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One area of the Valley’s economy seeing big job growth is the healthcare sector, but even with impressive growth, it may not be enough to meet the needs of the nearly five million residents. According to the most recent Labor Department data, there are 343,000 healthcare and social services jobs in the Phoenix Metro as of March 2024. This represents a year-over-year increase of 20,000 and well above the per-pandemic high hit in February of 2020. As a job sector, healthcare has more than recovered from COVID-19 with 17% more jobs last month than at the start of the pandemic.

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