Whakawhiwhinga
Physical therapist licence
One of the cleanest pairings on this site: the licensing federation de-duplicates its count, so the number of licensed physical therapists and the number employed can be set side by side without guessing.
Kāore he whika utu whakamātautau.
Mō ngā marama o te whakaakoranga, i te wā katoa. Ka roa ake te wā wātea.
Kāore he wā whakamutu - kāore he tau tōtika hei whakamutu. He iti iho te utu.
Ki te kore e taea te whakamātautau i te whika i runga ake nei, kāore e whakaputaina e tātau he whakaaro, engari he whakataunga.
He aha te take kāore he tau tōtika i tēnei wāhi?
Federal programme data reports doctoral-level debt for CIP 51.23, which covers physical therapy and occupational therapy doctorates together and cannot be split. The blended figure runs from roughly $71,000 to $120,000 in federal loans at completion, but it is not a physical-therapy figure, so we do not present it as one and this page carries no cost.
The Doctor of Physical Therapy is three years of graduate study on top of a bachelor's degree, so seven years of higher education in total before the national licensing exam.
Licences renew every one to two years by state, with continuing competence requirements.
He tokomaha nga tāngata e pupuri ana i tēnei, he tokomaha hoki e mahi ana i roto i te āpure.
Ko te tau e waiho ana te whika utu i waho
O te 322,992 unique physical therapists holding an active US licence i tatautia i roto 2025, Ko te pūkete mahi ā-rohe e whakawāteatia ana mō 267,330 Ka mahi i roto i nga mahi e hiahiatia ana mō — 82.8%. Ka noho 55,662 Kāore e whakaarotia e te kaipupuri.
Ko taua rerekētanga he tepe o runga, ehara i te mokatere kore mahi. Kāore te pupuri i tētahi tohu i te ōrite ki te rapu i tētahi mahi me ia. Kei roto i te rerekētanga ko ia katoa i neke ki te whakahaere, te whakaakoranga, te hoko, te arotakenga, he mahi pāhono rānei i ngā pūkete raraunga ā-rohe i raro i tētahi mahi rerekē; ko ia tangata i whakamutua, i mahue rānei i te whakawhiwhinga; ko ia tangata e mahi ana i te wā wātea, i te kaimahi, i te mahi takitahi rānei i tētahi āhuatanga kāore i te whiwhi i te uiuinga mahi; me te tangata katoa e pupuri ana hei aho tuarua ki tētahi atu mahi. Nā reira ko te rerekētanga ko te CEILING i te maha o ngā tāngata whakaakoranga kāore e mahi i tēnei āpure - he iti iho te tau tūturu, ā, kāore he tatau o tētahi tangata kāore i te mahi. Ko te mea e whakatū ana te takirua ko te rahi o te pūrere ko te tau utu i whakaputaina, ko te mea kāore he wāhi utu e whakaatu ana ki a koe.
Ko nga taha e rua he tau tūturu. Ko ngā kaipupuri i tētahi rā ki te mahi i tētahi wā — ko te momo ōrite o te nui, ko te take anake ka taea te wehe i ngā mea e rua.
Ko te mea kei roto i taua tatau: De-duplicated individuals, which is unusual and is why this pairing is unusually clean: FSBPT matches licence records across jurisdictions, so a therapist licensed in four states is counted once rather than four times. Physical therapist assistants (134,457) are a separate licence and are not in this number. It counts everyone whose licence is active, including people not currently practising.
Ko te kaituhi: unique physical therapists holding an active US licence = 322,992 (Standing count of people holding the credential, as at 31 December 2025) · FSBPT, Census of Licensed PTs and PTAs in the USA, 2025 · kitenga
He aha te take o nga tāngata i oti te whakaakoranga?
E whā tau i muri i te oti — he whika mō te waehere papatono, ehara i te mea mō tēnei mahi anake.
Ko te mea 11,740 ngā tāngata i oti Rehabilitation and therapy, doctoral degree Kāore anō rātau kia ako i te whā tau i muri mai, 119 Kāore i whiwhi i te moni i runga i te pūkete — 1.0%. Ko ērā i mahi i whiwhi i tētahi tauwaenga o te 100. $82,893, me te haurua o waenganui i waenganui $68,836 me $95,078.
Kāore he "whakahaere i te pūkete" e kore ana e "kore mahi". Ko te inenga ko te korenga o tētahi pūkete utu me tētahi moni whiwhinga tōrunga mō te tau katoa. Kāore i pātaihia e tētahi mēnā e hiahiatia ana e rātou te mahi, nō reira ka pupuri te tatau i ngā tāngata i mahue te kaha mahi i te kōwhiringa - te whakawhanake i ngā tamariki, te tiaki, te haere, te noho i runga i te moni whiwhinga o tētahi atu tangata, te neke atu ki waho - i te taha o ia e hiahia ana ki tētahi mahi ā, kāore i te whai. Kāore e whakaputaina e tētahi te wehenga, ā, kāore e whakaaro ana tātau. Ko te mea e whakatau ana he maha ngā tāngata i oti tēnei whakaakoranga, ā, kāore i whiwhi i tētahi atu mea mai i a ia, mai i ētahi atu mea rānei i te whā tau, ko te mea e kore e taea e te tau o te utu ki runga te kī ki a koe.
Kāore tēnei whika i te hāngai ki tēnei mahi. Ka whakaputaina e te kāwanatanga ā iwi ngā hua o te papatono i te mārō-whā-mati, ā, kāore i te tino pai ake, ā, ka tiritiri ngā papatono o tēnei tohu i tō rātou waehere ki ētahi atu, nō reira ka whakaahuatia e te whika ngā tangata katoa i oti i tētahi mea i raro i taua waehere i tēnei taumata, ehara i te tangata anake i haere ki te mahi i tēnei mahi.
Ko te mea e tautuhi ana te waehere papatono: CIP 51.23 covers physical therapy, occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, art and music therapy and rehabilitation counselling together. The doctoral row is mostly the Doctor of Physical Therapy alongside occupational therapy doctorates; the master's row is mostly occupational therapy and counselling. Physical therapy alone cannot be extracted from any of them, so none of these is the physical therapy figure.
The doctoral level of this code is the Doctor of Physical Therapy together with occupational therapy doctorates. It is the same blending that stops this page carrying a cost figure, so the outcome rate is a rehabilitation-professions figure rather than a physical-therapy one.
Ko wai i roto i te kohoro: Ko te nuinga o nga kaiako i whiwhi i te āwhina ā-iwi o te ākonga - tata ki te haurua o nga ākonga US, ā, kāore i te ine i tēnei wāhi. Ko ngā tāngata i haere ki te akoranga ā-whāiti, kāore i roto i te tīwae kotahi. Ko te Tari e whakakore ana i ngā whare wānanga me ngā rōpū iti rawa hei whakaputa, ā, ka tāpiri i te pōhēhētanga tatauranga ki te toenga, nō reira ko tēnei he taumaha i runga i ngā whare wānanga nui rawa ki te pūrongo: 150 o rātau, e whakaora ana 89.0% Ko te tatau ā-motu o te Tari mō tēnei papatono. Ka neke te mokatere o te whakawāteatanga o ngā papatono pūrongo iti rawa 0.0 Ko ngā pūwāhi ōrautanga.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · kitenga · te taurite ōrite mō ia papatono ka taea e tātau te whakaputa
Ko te mea e whakaae ana ia kia mahia e koe
Ko te utu e pā ana ki te mahi, ehara i te tohu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi e whakaaetia ana e ia.
| He mahi | E hiahiatia ana? | Median | Ka mahi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapists | Legally required to hold the job | $102,760 | 267,330 |
Ko te utu me te mahi pāpāho: BLS Kaimahi me ngā Tatauranga Uara, Mei 2025.
E utu ana rātau mō rātau anō?
Ko te mahi e whakawātea ana tēnei e utu ana i tētahi tauwaenga o $102,760, i tua atu i tētahi mātauranga-whakahaeretanga o te mahi o te tauwhāiti o te tau. $50,020 i roto i ia mahi e whakaputaina ana e tātau — he utu e tata ana ki te $52,740 Kāore e taea e tātau te tahuri i taua wā ki tētahi wā whakawhiwhinga, nā te mea kāore he tau tūturu mō te utu o tēnei ki te whiwhi — ko te hāwhe o te tatau tūturu, i whakaputaina hoki, ā, kāore te taha o te hāwhe i a tātau.
Ka pānui tēnei hei whakataurite ki tētahi mahi noa iho, ehara i te āhua o tōmu mahi. He aha taua raina taketake, me te mea e waiho ana i waho
Ka whakaaro hoki ka whiwhi i te mahi. Ko ia whika utu i tēnei pae e whakawhāiti ana ki te whakawhiwhinga ki te mahi. Ko te whakaaro tonu ko te tatau o te kaipupuri tohu i runga ake nei kia whakamātautia, ā, ko te whakaaro tonu e mahi ai ia atu pae utu.
Ko te mea e hiahiatia ana e koe i mua i te tīmatanga
- A bachelor's degree with prerequisite science coursework
- A CAPTE-accredited Doctor of Physical Therapy programme
- A pass in the National Physical Therapy Examination
Kāore i te mahi tēnei mēnā
- you are not prepared for graduate-level debt — this is a doctorate, priced like one
- you cannot handle the physical demands of moving patients daily
Ko ngā tohu katoa, e te wā whakawhiwhinga · He pēhea te tatau i tēnei · Ka rapu i tētahi atu mea