Medical Coder Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

MedicalBillingHires had 796 open medical coder listings from 213 employers on November 5, 2026.

139 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 376 in the previous 30 days.

At least 5.9% of medical coder listings were part-time on November 5, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit medical coder listings named most often on November 5, 2026 was health insurance, in 28.4% of listings, followed by paid time off (26.4%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all medical coder listings.

BLS publishes no medical coder-only wage, so the figure here is for medical records specialists (SOC 29-2072), the BLS occupation that includes medical coders, which also counts non-coding medical records staff.

The median wage for that occupation was $24.59 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Medical Records Specialists (SOC 29-2072), May 2025).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $20.91 to $31.17 an hour.

Florida had the most open medical coder listings on November 5, 2026, with 60 (7.5% of the national total).

Texas followed with 56 (7%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with medical coder openings in Florida.

213 employers had open medical coder listings on MedicalBillingHires on November 5, 2026, and the five largest posted 13.2% of them.

68 employers (31.9%) had exactly one open medical coder listing.

The federal occupation system classifies medical coders in medical records specialists (SOC 29-2072), whose definition says it includes medical coders; BLS publishes no coder-only count or wage.

Employers reported 194,720 medical records specialists on payroll in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-2072), a count that includes coders and non-coding records staff and leaves out the self-employed.

BLS projects employment of medical records specialists, self-employed included, to grow 7.8% from 2025 to 2035, from 200,700 to 216,300 jobs, with about 14,000 openings a year (BLS Employment Projections 2025-35).

Medical records specialists earned a median of $59,120 a year in hospitals (55,530 payroll jobs) against $47,120 in offices of physicians (34,860 jobs) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS industry estimates).

In 2025 the largest employers of medical records specialists were hospitals (28%), offices of physicians (18%), professional, scientific and technical services (10%) and administrative and support services (8%), according to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook's 2025-35 outlook notes that wider use of AI tools that make medical coding more efficient may affect demand for medical records specialists.

In AAPC's 2025 Salary Survey of its members, certified respondents averaged $67,260 a year against $55,721 for non-certified respondents, 20.7% more; AAPC survey averages are not comparable to the BLS median.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid medical coder listing on MedicalBillingHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all medical coder jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no coder-only occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for medical records specialists (SOC 29-2072), the occupation that includes medical coders and also counts non-coding records staff. OEWS covers payroll employees only; BLS Employment Projections include the self-employed. AAPC survey averages describe AAPC members, a different population from BLS.