2022-24 Physician Assistant Workforce Survey Page 7 of 23 Trends in PAs by Sex, Ethnicity, and Race As shown by Figure 2, the majority of Florida’s PAs who self-reported their demographic data information via MQA’s licensure database are female: 68.6% (or 10,181 of 14,837), compared to 31.4% (or 4,656 of 14,837) of males.9 Additionally,10.9% (or 1,662) of PAs who self-reported their demographic information did not provide ethnicity/race information or chose “Other,” compared to 89.1% who did (this is a 95.1% response rate for the total demographic data). Of these, 74.0% identified as White, 15.1% as Hispanic, 5.6% as Asian, 5.1% as African American, and 0.31% as Native American. FIGURE 2: TRENDS IN PAs BY SEX, ETHNICITY, AND RACE Female White African American Native American Asian Hispanic U.S. Census Bureau Florida 50.8% 76.8% 17.0% 0.5% 3.1% 27.1% 2022-24 Survey Respondents 68.6% 74.0% 5.1% 0.3% 5.6% 15.1% While the age range of PAs in this report spans from 23 to 89, the average PAs who responded to the survey were 40 years of age. As shown by Figure 3, the majority of PAs are 31-40 years old at 34.9% of respondents, followed by 23.7% aged 20-30, and 19.6% aged 41-50. The percentage of PAs working past the current retirement age (over 66) is 2.9% (or 446 respondents). The 2021-23 PA Workforce Survey reported the age range of PAs as 25 to 88, compared to the 23 to 89 for the 2022-24 survey, which may reflect more young people entering the workforce. This is further supported in the mode of PA ages reported dropping from 33 to 28 and the average age dropping from 44 to 40. 9 The PA demographic data is not captured through the PA Workforce Survey; rather, demographic information is captured through MQA’s licensure database, which stores PA’s self-reported information about their age, ethnicity, and sex (also referred to as a licensure profile). More PAs completed their licensure profile than completed the 2022 and 2024 survey (or 14,837 compared to 14,427, respectively).
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