Physician Assistant-Exempt
Compensation
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Job Description
The Physician Assistant under the direct supervision of a Physician performs a variety of functions and technical procedures necessary for admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up and outcome evaluation.
Provides diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health care services.
Participates in performance improvement, research and educational activities.
Qualifications
- Graduate from an Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the
Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) Program or equivalent as approved by the New
York State Education Department.
- New York State Licensed Physician Assistant
- Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician
Assistant
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS).
- New York State mandated Infection Control Course certificate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Key Responsibilities
The Physician Assistant performs technical procedures for patient admission, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment under physician supervision. They also participate in performance improvement, research, and educational activities to provide comprehensive health care services.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician Assistant-Exempt at Confidential Employer a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Physician Assistant roles — ranked against 4,558 active Physician Assistant roles listings on WeekdayDoc.
General Medicine — Physician Assistant Career Context
Of the 50 active Physician Assistant listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 64% have no call, 64% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in New York
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $876k
- Typical market rent
- $4,154/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 40 min
- State income tax
- Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.