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Career Information for Physician Assistants in Texas

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Fast Facts for Physician Assistants in Texas

  • Cities with highest percentage of jobs relative to population: Tyler, Killeen, and Wichita Falls
  • Cities with lowest percentage of jobs relative to population: Austin, El Paso, and Fort Worth
  • Cities with the highest absolute number of jobs: Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio

Salaries for Physician Assistants in Texas

  • Metro areas with the highest median salaries: Lubbock, Tyler, and Houston. (See table at bottom of page)

Schools for Physician Assistants in Texas are listed below.

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Texas Physician Assistant Schools

School NameCampusHighest AwardEnrolled
Baylor College of MedicineHoustonDoctorate & First Professional1,398
Baylor UniversityWacoDoctorate & First Professional14,174
Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterLubbockDoctorate & First Professional2,616
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioSan AntonioDoctorate & First Professional2,868
The University of Texas Medical BranchGalvestonDoctorate2,422
The University of Texas-Pan AmericanEdinburgDoctorate17,435
University of North Texas Health Science CenterForth WorthDoctorate & First Professional1,153
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasDallasDoctorate & First Professional2,253

Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Physician Assistants

The map below shows job statistics for the career type by metro area, for Texas. A table below the map shows job popularity and salaries across the state.

Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:
Physician Assistants

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Physician Assistants relative to the population of the city, as of 2008. Salary data was obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Relative Popularity of 1.0 means that the city has an average number of the particular job, for its population, compared to the rest of the US. Higher numbers mean proportionally more jobs of that type.
Metro AreaJobsSalary
(2008)
Relative
Popularity

TEXAS

   
Tyler70$93,3601.6
Killeen70$84,3001.2
Wichita Falls30$86,7801.1
Abilene30$78,5701
Corpus Christi80$68,0000.9
Dallas870$83,4400.8
Houston1,060$90,8700.8
McAllen80$80,3500.7
Lubbock40$100,9400.7
San Antonio270$83,3000.6
Fort Worth270$80,9400.6
El Paso80$63,6900.6
Austin220$76,5500.6
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