Specialty Physician Assistant

Physician AssistantNo nightsContract

Listed compensation

$80/hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Job Description

Johns Hopkins Intrastaff is the internal staffing agency for the Johns Hopkins Health System and partner hospitals, providing temporary support to a variety of the Johns Hopkins locations. Our employees are the strength of our service.

Intrastaff is unique because it's one of the very few agencies where a person has the benefit of being a temporary employee and also feels like a member of a large organization.

Working at Hopkins means joining a culturally diverse team that includes some of the best nurses, physicians and allied health professionals in the world. Directly or indirectly, you'll have exposure to cutting-edge technology and groundbreaking medical research.

Responsibilities

Under the direction, supervision and responsibility of a physician, and in accordance with established policies evaluates patient’s health status through diagnostic procedures and tests. Provides support to surgical team by performing minor surgical procedures. Provides therapeutic patient care under direction of a physician and in accordance with established protocols.

Physician Assistant: Dayshift, $80/hr.

Qualifications

Successful completion of an AMA approved Physician Assistant program is required.

Registered/certified by the Maryland Board of Quality Assurance. Board-certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants is required.

Current CPR certification required.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Patient evaluationSurgical supportClinical protocolsMedical documentation

Surgery — Physician Assistant Career Context

Of the 50 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 78% have no call, 86% require no weekends.

Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$166k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $158k in an average-cost state. 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution37 jobs · 22 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks33 jobs · 22 employers

401k / retirement match
82%
CME allowance
70%
Sign-on bonus
67%
Relocation assistance
15%
Loan repayment
9%

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Work-life snapshot

median 1.7this job 5.1
Better work-life than 70% of Surgery (PA) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 359 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Baltimore

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$203k
Typical market rent
$1,802/mo
Residents’ average commute
29 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.5
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.