Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists

At a $20,973 median in gross receipts, the typical person under this code is running a real but part-time operation. Full-time equivalence would require roughly triple this before costs.

With 101,425 filers, Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists is a substantial informal workforce. Enough people do it that local pricing is set by the field rather than by you.

8,012 people — 7.9% of filers — grossed $100,000 or more. At that share the upper tier is visible from inside the field, which usually means someone doing Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists locally can tell you what those people do differently.

Independent ambulatory care is licensed, insured and reimbursement-driven; it suits people who can run the billing side as seriously as the clinical side.

There is no qualification, licence or minimum to appear in this data — you file and you are counted. Read the receipts distribution as the price of that: no barrier at the door means no filter before the numbers.

Bottom quarter under $7,209, top quarter over $49,060: 6.8x, or $3,487 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 Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists earns under $7,209 — $42,811 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 understanding reimbursement timelines. Being owed money by a payer is not the same as being paid.

Of 101,425 filers in 2022, 33.0% took under $10,000 across the whole year in gross receipts: 33,470 people. Whatever the working version of Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists looks like, a third or more never reach it.

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.

From $7,209 to $49,060 is 6.8x — the shape of a field where a minority captures most of the money. The midpoint of $20,973 is arithmetic, not a forecast, and treating it as one is the standard mistake here.

In cash terms the middle half of Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists runs $7,209 to $49,060 — $41,851 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $20,973.

Between $7,209 and $49,060 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $20,973. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $28,087; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $41,851.

The upper half of the middle range — $20,973 to $49,060, or $28,087 — is far longer than the lower half at $13,764. In a shape like this an average would flatter Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists considerably, and would describe nobody.

Converted to a 2,080-hour year, the receipts run $3.46 an hour at the 25th percentile, $10.08 at the midpoint and $23.58 at the 75th. Read them as revenue per hour worked; the equivalent wage is lower by whatever this work costs to do.

Straight from the Census bands for Offices of Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists, and Audiologists: 18,930 filers under $5,000, 14,544 between $5,000 and $9,999, 23,564 between $10,000 and $24,999, 8,055 above $100,000 and 1,605 above $250,000.