For calendar year 2023, there were 1,501 job postings for full or part time pathologists at PathologyOutlines.com, which form the basis for the statistics below. This total excludes postings that were only for locum, Ph.D., residency, fellowship or nonpathologist positions, reflecting a 1.4% decrease from the 1,522 ads posted in 2022 (click here) (Figure 1). Of these postings, 1,390 were for 1 position, 38 were for 2 positions, 1 was for 3 positions and 72 were for an unspecified number of positions greater than 1 (multiple listings may reflect more than one advertised position within the same organization).
Of the 1,501 ads, 760 (50.6%) were for academic positions and 741 (49.4%) were for nonacademic positions, compared to 47.8% academic in 2022. We define academic as an assistant, associate or full professor position at a university.
For 2023, job advertisements were posted from all 50 U.S. states as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, 6 Canadian provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario and Saskatchewan), England / United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland (Table 1). There were no jobs posted from these provinces: Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. There were 3 jobs listed as a remote position in the U.S. The states / provinces with the most ads were New York (150), California (106), Florida (100), Texas (100) and New Jersey (66).
Table 1. Job totals by regions: (click here for map of U.S. regions):
Regions:
| Location | No. of Job Postings n (%) | Annual Percentage Range |
| U.S. - Midwest | 304 (20.2%) | 18.9 - 21.2% |
| U.S. - Northeast | 434 (28.9%) | 24.5 - 31.7% |
| U.S. - South | 455 (30.3%) | 26.2 - 34.2% |
| U.S. - West | 231 (15.4%) | 13.9 - 18.3% |
| Canada | 61 (4.1%) | 2.9 - 5.6% |
| Other | 16 (1.1%) | 0.5 - 1.6% | Totals | 1,501 (100.0%) |
The last column shows mild variability by region in job postings during the four quarters of 2023. Compared to 2022, job postings in the northeastern and southern regions of the U.S. as well as Canada increased slightly while postings in the western U.S. region dropped.
Most postings (75.9%) required AP or both AP and CP board certifications / eligibility with no major changes from 2022 data (Table 2).
Table 2. Minimum requirements (board certified / board eligible):
| Certification | n (%) |
| AP | 342 (22.8%) |
| AP or CP | 47 (3.1%) |
| AP and CP | 797 (53.1%) |
| CP | 64 (4.3%) |
| Not indicated | 251 (16.7%) |
| Totals | 1,501 (100.0%) |
Most advertisements (87.3%) at least preferred a subspecialty. For 2023, the most common subspecialties listed were cytopathology, hematopathology, gynecologic, GI / liver and breast pathology (Table 3).
Table 3. Required training (experience):
| Subspecialty | n (%) |
| Cytopathology | 331 (22.1%) |
| Hematopathology | 309 (20.6%) |
| Gynecologic | 230 (15.3%) |
| GI / liver | 229 (15.3%) |
| Breast | 226 (15.1%) |
| Molecular | 149 (9.9%) |
| Head & Neck | 125 (8.3%) |
| GU | 119 (7.9%) |
| Dermatopathology | 111 (7.4%) |
| Medical Director | 99 (6.6%) |
| Pulmonary | 90 (6.0%) |
| Transfusion medicine | 88 (5.9%) |
| Pediatrics | 84 (5.6%) |
| Neuropathology | 57 (3.8%) |
| Bone & soft tissue | 56 (3.7%) |
| Renal | 43 (2.9%) |
| Chief / chair / director | 42 (2.8%) |
| Autopsy | 38 (2.5%) |
| Informatics | 36 (2.4%) |
| Chemistry | 32 (2.1%) |
| Coagulation | 27(1.8%) |
| Microbiology | 26 (1.7%) |
| Government | 25 (1.7%) |
| Research | 19 (1.3%) |
| Transplant | 18 (1.2%) |
| Forensics | 17 (1.1%) |
| Cytogenetics | 15 (1.0%) |
| HLA / immunology | 14 (0.9%) |
| Immunohistochemistry | 10 (0.7%) |
| Education | 7 (0.5%) |
| Veterinary | 3 (0.2%) |
Note: Many positions listed multiple specialties. Percentages are out of 1,501 ads. A total of 1,502 job postings were recorded during the course of 2023 but one job was removed after one of the quarterly reports was posted giving us a new total of 1,501.
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