Healthcare Benchmark Recruiting Metrics 2025

The healthcare industry is one of the fastest-growing job markets in the world: for example, the U.S. economy added 902,000 healthcare and social assistance jobs in 2024. With so much hiring activity, healthcare recruiting teams need better tools and processes to meet the challenges of staffing in a scarce talent environment. SmartRecruiters’ latest report offers benchmark recruiting metrics that will help healthcare organizations see where they fit into the bigger picture and determine whether their own metrics are leading or lagging.

Recruiting Benchmarks Report

For its landmark Recruiting Benchmarks 2025 Report, SmartRecruiters examined nearly 90 million applications for 1.5 million jobs across 95 countries. This blog post dives into the healthcare metrics, offering a starting place for organizations to see where they’re performing well and where they can improve.

Note that healthcare is defined at the company level, not the job level. In other words, the data includes all roles offered by healthcare organizations, from administrative staff to clinical roles.