Therapists, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Therapists, All Other worker at that point in the distribution, so $85,010 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 19,320 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. New Jersey is the largest employer at 2,530 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 29.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in New Jersey, whose location quotient of 4.75 says this work is 4.75 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $81,210 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($120,050) is 3.1 times the 10th percentile ($38,840), a gap of $81,210 a year. The mean of $73,800 sitting above the median of $65,010 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 44 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Alaska at $107,070; the jobs leader is New Jersey:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Therapists, All Other stands number 570 by employment and number 331 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, the group median wage is $98,340 across 71 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 34% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 20 of the 42 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $65,010, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 2,540 jobs, 13.1% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $63,980 a year, against $92,860 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $5,418 a month before tax, $2,500 biweekly, $1,250 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($49,510) to the 75th ($85,010) is worth $35,500 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $71,511 would sit between the median ($65,010) and the 75th percentile ($85,010), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $49,510, is $15,500 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Sibling occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations: Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric, Physicians, Pathologists, Hearing Aid Specialists, Dermatologists, Orthotists and Prosthetists, Podiatrists. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.