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Olympia, WA (population: 46,257) has thirteen physician assistant schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. University of Washington-Seattle Campus, the highest ranked school in this group with a physician assistant program, has a total student population of 45,943. It is the 26th highest ranked school in the USA and the highest in the state of Washington. To learn more about physician assistant programs in Olympia, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of physician assistant professors at University of Washington such as Galen Basse, Chad Driesback, Laura Erickson, David Giles, Janice Von Itter, and Junhong Kim.

Physician Assistant students from Olympia schools who go on to become physician assistants. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 76,900 people working as physician assistants alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $84,830. Also, Medical assistants make on average $29,450 per year and there are about 495,970 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Olympia area alone, there are 490 employed medical assistants earning an average salary of $33,820. Physician assistants in this area earn $95,620/yr and there are 50 employed.

Olympia lies in Thurston county, which is one of the 24 counties in Washington. Overall, the Olympia area has 95,910 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1.7% unemployment rate, $21.91/hr average worker wage, and a $45,570 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.541 out of every 1000 jobs in Olympia are held by physician assistants, and 5.076/1000 are held by medical assistants.

Of the 13 physician assistant schools with a 100-mile radius of Olympia, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Everest College-Vancouver comes out as the most expensive ($19,844/yr) for physician assistant students, with Lake Washington Technical College as the lowest, reported at only $6,186/yr.

Name	State	Population	# of Schools	Avg School Rank	Total Programs	Distance from Olympia
Tacoma	WA	200,855	9	34.3764	293	24.9 miles
Fife	WA	-	1	33.1119	4	28.6 miles
Puyallup	WA	-	1	10.872	24	29.8 miles
South Hill	WA	63,243	0	-	0	30.0 miles
Federal Way	WA	84,659	2	22.1387	18	31.9 miles
Kent	WA	84,987	1	34.1348	6	39.0 miles
Tukwila	WA	-	1	9.30665	25	42.1 miles
Aberdeen	WA	-	3	19.6431	151	43.9 miles
Renton	WA	66,884	4	19.959	76	44.4 miles
Seattle	WA	614,214	23	23.1541	683	47.4 miles
Bellevue	WA	128,225	4	10.794	140	51.7 miles
Kirkland	WA	48,153	2	17.9541	117	55.1 miles
Bothell	WA	-	2	28.3486	26	59.4 miles
Edmonds	WA	40,568	0	-	0	59.8 miles
Lynnwood	WA	-	1	17.534	76	60.3 miles
Everett	WA	99,092	6	27.2101	95	71.3 miles
Astoria	OR	-	2	18.4622	36	74.0 miles
Vancouver	WA	169,603	5	29.2795	91	98.3 miles

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