Healthcare Administrator job description
13 verified openings in Healthcare Administration & Operations
Clinic director, practice manager, nurse manager, health information manager, and healthcare administrator are one occupation to BLS: medical and health services managers, 640,400 jobs. Growth is projected at 24 percent from 2025 to 2035, roughly 62,300 openings a year, among the fastest rates BLS assigns to any management occupation. Pay runs wide to match, a median of $123,860 in May 2025 with the bottom decile under $73,390 and the top above $224,340, which follows from a title that covers a single clinic and a hospital division alike.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
Administrators direct and evaluate medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, and maintenance staff, set schedules against workload, space, and equipment, and run recruitment, hiring, and training. They conduct fiscal operations: accounting, budgets, authorizing expenditures, and setting rates for services. They watch the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, and facilities to judge whether more staff or equipment is needed, keep the computerized record systems the reports come out of, and carry communication between governing boards, medical staff, and department heads. Twenty-eight percent work in hospitals and 13 percent in physicians' offices.
Common Skills and Technologies
Speaking and critical thinking take the top skill ratings, trailed by a long field at nearly the same level: reading comprehension, active listening, writing, monitoring, social perceptiveness, complex problem solving, judgment and decision making, time management, and management of personnel resources. The software spans clinical and business. Epic Systems, MEDITECH, and Henry Schein Dentrix cover care; Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, and IBM SPSS Statistics cover money and analysis; Excel, Outlook, and Office are the three O*NET marks in demand; and compliance, human resources, and financial analysis systems run underneath.
Education, Training, and Career Path
Common entry is a bachelor's degree plus administrative or clinical experience, the answer 46 percent of respondents gave, ahead of a master's at 21 percent, which many executive paths prefer or require. O*NET Job Zone Four, considerable preparation. Majors pair healthcare with business: health administration, nursing, or programs mixing medical terminology with budgeting and health information systems. Licensure touches specific corners of the field, since every state licenses nursing home administrators and some positions require an RN or a social work license. The Military Crosswalk points Army 70B health services administration officers straight into this occupation.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 11-9111.00 Medical and Health Services Managers, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/11-9111.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 11-9111, https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes119111.htm.