Self-employment method
Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners
241,487 people filed as a nonemployer business under this industry code in 2022 — no payroll, no employees, just them. These are gross receipts reported to the IRS, before any expense is taken out.
Median GROSS RECEIPTS for the year — money in, before rent, materials, fuel, insurance or tax. This is not take-home pay.
Share who grossed under $10,000 for the whole year — before expenses.
The middle half, in gross receipts. A quarter of filers took less than the lower figure.
Source: US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
How often it does not work out
Of the 241,487 people who filed under this code in 2022, 35.44% grossed under $10,000 for the entire year — before a single expense was deducted.
That is a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes GROSS RECEIPTS, not net income. Everyone inside that share earned less than the figure suggests once rent, materials, mileage, insurance and self-employment tax came out — and filers who grossed well above the threshold may still have netted nothing. The true share of people who earn nothing meaningful from this is higher than the number above, never lower.
Denominator: establishments_total = 241,487 · US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
Every filer, by what they grossed
The full distribution Census publishes. The median above is interpolated inside the band that holds the 50th percentile.
| Gross receipts for the year | Filers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 50,707 | 21.0% |
| $5,000 to $9,999 | 34,865 | 14.4% |
| $10,000 to $24,999 | 55,316 | 22.9% |
| $25,000 to $49,999 | 44,058 | 18.2% |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 31,620 | 13.1% |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 18,512 | 7.7% |
| $250,000 to $499,999 | 4,704 | 1.9% |
| $500,000 to $999,999 | 1,341 | 0.6% |
| $1,000,000 to $2,499,999 | 364 | 0.2% |
Who this suits
At the midpoint this work grossed $19,537 for the year — $1,628 a month in revenue. That is a real second income and a long way short of a first one, and Census cannot tell you which of those the typical filer intended.
With 241,487 filers, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners is a substantial informal workforce. Enough people do it that local pricing is set by the field rather than by you.
10.3% of filers grossed $100,000 or more. That is a substantial upper tier by the standards of this dataset — the difference between a full operation and an occasional one is visible in the distribution rather than only in the anecdotes.
Independent practice here suits clinicians who can also run a small business — credentialing, claims, insurance and payroll are the other half of the job.
There is no training requirement to file under this code — which is precisely why so many people appear in the bottom bands. Entry being free is not the same as the work being viable.
Who should not do this
Bottom quarter under $6,386, top quarter over $47,826: 7.5x, or $3,453 a month. At this stretch the label has stopped describing one occupation, and every summary statistic about it — including the midpoint — should be treated with suspicion.
The bottom quarter of Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners earns under $6,386 — $43,634 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.
Do not start this without malpractice cover and a credentialing plan in place; neither is a thing to arrange after the first patient.
85,582 filers out of 241,487 — 35.4% — reported under $10,000 in gross receipts in 2022. At that share the bottom band is not a warning about beginners; it is a description of a large part of the field.
That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.
What the spread tells you
From $6,386 to $47,826 is 7.5x — the shape of a field where a minority captures most of the money. The midpoint of $19,537 is arithmetic, not a forecast, and treating it as one is the standard mistake here.
The middle half of this field earns between $6,386 and $47,826. That is $41,440 of range, with $19,537 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $6,386 and $47,826 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $19,537. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $28,289; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,440.
The upper half of the middle range — $19,537 to $47,826, or $28,289 — is far longer than the lower half at $13,151. In a shape like this an average would flatter Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners takes $9.39 in revenue — $3.07 at the bottom quarter and $22.99 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.
The raw counts, before anyone interprets them: under $5,000, 50,707 filers. $5,000 to $9,999, 34,865. $10,000 to $24,999, 55,316. Over $100,000, 24,921 — and 6,409 over $250,000.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Read every figure here as GROSS RECEIPTS rather than income. $19,537 is turnover — the money that passed through Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners before expenses. What is left after costs is a different and much smaller number that this dataset does not publish.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $19,537 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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