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Physician Assistant (PA) Salary. A Physician Assistant (PA) earns an average salary of $87,342 per year. People in this job generally don't have more than 20 years' experience. The highest paying skills associated with this job are Emergency Medicine and Emergency Room (ER).
The average physician assistant makes $98,180 per year as of 2017. This translates to roughly $47.20 per hour. There are currently just under 100,000 physician assistants employed in the United States. The amount of PAs on the workforce today is expect to grow by 30 percent from 2014 to 2024, which means there will be approximately 30,000 new PA jobs in the coming years.