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Athletic trainer certification (ATC)
A master's degree is now required, and only about half the people who hold the certification are employed as athletic trainers.
No verified cost figure.
Months of training, full time. Part time takes longer.
No payback period — there is no cost figure to pay back. The premium is below.
Where no figure above could be verified we publish none rather than an estimate.
Why there is no cost figure here
Athletic training programmes sit inside CIP 51.09 with physician assistant studies, respiratory therapy, surgical technology and several other allied-health courses, and the Department publishes no split. The blended master's figure for that code is dominated by physician assistant programmes, which cost and pay far more, so applying it here would be a number about a different profession wearing this page's label.
Since 2022 the entry-level degree has been a master's: two years of accredited graduate study including clinical placements, after a bachelor's, then the BOC examination.
Certification is maintained on a two-year cycle with continuing education and an annual fee; most states also require a licence.
How many people hold this, and how many are working in the field
The number the pay figure leaves out
Of the 58,646 people holding a current BOC athletic trainer certification ანგარიშები 2025, federal employment records account for 30,500 მუშაობენ იმ პროფესიებში, რომელთათვისაც შექმნილია. 52.0%. That leaves 28,146 holders it does not account for.
That gap is an upper bound, not an unemployment rate. კრედიტის ქონება არ არის იგივე, რაც სამუშაოს ძიება ამ კრედიტით. ჭრილში მოცემულია ყველა, ვინც გადავიდა მენეჯმენტში, სწავლებაში, გაყიდვებში, ინსპექტირებაში ან სხვა დაკავშირებულ სამუშაოზე, რომელიც ფედერალური მონაცემების ფაილებში სხვა პროფესიად არის მითითებული; ყველა, ვინც გათავისუფლდა ან დატოვა კრედიტის გარეშე; ყველა, ვინც მუშაობს ნახევარ განაკვეთზე, აგენტურაში ან თვითდასაქმებულად ისეთი გზით, რომელიც დასაქმების კვლევამ არ აღწერა; და ყველა, ვინც ფლობს მას როგორც მეორე სტრიქონის სხვა სამუშაოზე. ასე რომ, ჭრილში მოცემულია ჭერი იმაზე, თუ რამდენი მომზადებული ადამიანი არ მუშაობს ამ სფეროში - რეალური რიცხვი ნაკლებია და ეს არ არის უმუშევრობის რიცხვი. ის, რაც წყვილმა დაამტკიცა, არის ბაზის ზომა, რომლის შესახებაც გამოქვეყნებული ხელფასის რიცხვი დუმს, რაც არის ის, რაც არანაირი ხელფასის საიტი არ გთავაზობთ.
Both sides are standing counts. Holders on a date against employment in a period — the same kind of quantity, which is the only reason the two may be divided at all.
What that count includes: People holding the ATC credential at the end of 2025. The Board of Certification is the only certifying body for athletic trainers in the United States, so this is a person count rather than a licence-record count. It includes people not currently practising and a small share based outside the United States — BOC put those at 6.2% and 1.4% in its last published demographic breakdown, which covers an earlier cycle and cannot simply be subtracted from this year's total.
ნომინანტი: people holding a current BOC athletic trainer certification = 58,646 (Standing count of people holding the credential, calendar year 2025) · Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer, 2025 Annual Report · ხედები
The gap here is one of the wider ones on the site for a clinical credential, and part of it is structural: athletic trainers employed by schools and universities are sometimes filed under teaching or coaching occupations, and those working in industrial and military settings are filed elsewhere again. BOC's own last published breakdown put about 6% of certificants as not currently practising.
What it lets you do
The pay belongs to the job, not to the credential. These are the occupations it qualifies you for.
| სამუშაო | Is it required? | მედიანი | დაკავებული |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athletic Trainers | Legally required to hold the job | $62,520 | 30,500 |
2014 წლის 1 იანვრიდან — იუსტიციის მინისტრი. ↑ BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2014.
Does it pay for itself?
The job this unlocks pays a median of $62,520, წინააღმდეგ დასაქმების-წონასწორებული მედიანას $50,020 across every occupation we publish — a premium of about $12,500 a year before tax. We cannot turn that into a payback period, because no credible figure exists for what this costs to obtain — half of the calculation is real and published, and the other half we do not have.
Read that as a comparison to an average job, not to your job. What that baseline is, and what it leaves out
And it assumes you get the job. Every payback figure on this site is conditional on being hired into the work. That is the assumption the credential-holder count above exists to test, and it is the assumption every other pay site makes silently.
What you need before you start
- A bachelor's degree with prerequisite coursework
- A place on a CAATE-accredited master's programme
- A pass in the BOC examination
Do not do this if
- you need predictable hours — the work follows the sports calendar, which means evenings, weekends and travel
- you are expecting the master's requirement to have raised the pay; it raised the cost of entry and the pay sits below the typical US job for a graduate credential
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