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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.
Akukho manani entengo aqinisekisiwe.
Inyanga yoqeqesho, isikhathi esigcwele. Isikhathi esincane sithatha isikhathi eside.
Akukho sikhathi sokukhokha emuva — akukho zindleko ezizokhokhwa emuva. Ipremiyamu ingaphansi.
Uma akukho sithombe esiphezulu esingaqinisekiswa sishicilela lutho ngaphandle kokulinganisa.
Kungani asikho isilinganiso semali lapha
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.
Ingabe abantu abaningi bagcina lokhu, futhi bangaki abasebenza kule ndawo
Inani elishiya umlinganiso womsebenzi ngaphandle
I- 322,992 unique physical therapists holding an active US licence i-%s 2025, i-akhawunti ye-akhawunti 267,330 isebenza ezimbonini ezizo — 82.8%. Okushiya 55,662 i-Akhawunti
Lo mkhuba ukhona futhi ukhona futhi ukhona. Ukubamba igunya akuyona into efanayo njengokubheka umsebenzi ngaleyo. Ibanga liqukethe wonke umuntu osuka ku-management, ukuqeqesha, ukuthengisa, ukuhlola noma umsebenzi ophathelene nedatha yezwe efile ngaphansi komsebenzi ohlukile; wonke umuntu osuka noma washiya ngaphandle kokunikela igunya; wonke umuntu osebenza isikhathi esincane, inhlangano noma osebenza ngokwakhe ngendlela ucwaningo lomsebenzi alutholakali; futhi wonke umuntu ogcina njengentambo yesithathu kusinye umsebenzi. Ngakho ibanga liyi-CEILING mayelana nokuthi abantu abaningi abaqeqeshiwe abasebenzanga kule ndawo — isithombe sangempela siphansi, futhi akuyona ukubala kwanoma ngubani ongekho emisebenzini. Okuthi iqembu liyibeke yisayizi ye-pool isithombe semali esishicilelwe sikhala, okuyinto engakhokhwa iwebhusayithi ibonisa wena.
Izingxenye ezimbili zihlala zibala. Abanikazi ngesonto elilodwa elingasebenzi ngesikhathi - uhlobo olufanayo lobukhulu, okuyinto isizathu kuphela ezimbini zingahlukaniswa ngaso sonke isikhathi.
Igama le-akhawunti: 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.
Isibalo: 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 · isithombe
Yini ekwenzeke kubantu abaqedile ukuqeqeshwa
Iminyaka emihlanu ngemuva kokuqedwa — isithombe sekhodi yephrojekthi, hhayi le misebenzi kuphela
noma 11,740 abantu abaqedile Rehabilitation and therapy, doctoral degree futhi bebengafundanga iminyaka emine ngemuva kwalokho, 119 ayikho imali engenayo ebhalwe phansi — 1.0%. Abasebenza bathola umphakathi we-R1 100 000 $82,893, ngengxenye ephakathi phakathi $68,836 futhi $95,078.
“Akukho inzuzo ebhalwe phansi” akuyona “imisebenzi engasebenzi”. Umbiko we-2015 we-National Statistics Office (NSO) ukhombisa ukuthi i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ezweni lonke basebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ubonisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ukhombisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS. Umbiko ubonisa ukuthi i-NHS ikhokhela i-10% yabasebenzi base-Afrika abasebenza ngaphansi kwe-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-NHS.
Le nombolo ayifani nemisebenzi enjalo. I-Federal government ishicilela izimpendulo zezinhlelo ezingenalutho, futhi lezi zinhlelo zihlanganisa ikhodi labo nabanye. Ngakho-ke, isithombe sichaza wonke umuntu oqedile noma yini ngaphansi kwalo khodi kulo mqondo, hhayi abantu abahamba phambili ukwenza le misebenzi kuphela.
Igama lephrojekthi: 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.
Obani abakhona: completers abatholayo usizo lokufunda i-federal - cishe ingxenye yabafundi base-US, futhi enye ingxenye ayilinganisiwe lapha. Abantu abaye bafunda kabanzi bakhona emkhakheni othile. I-Isikhungo sicindezela izinhlangano ezinezinhlaka ezincane kakhulu zokushicilela futhi singeza umsindo we-statistics eqenjini, ngakho lokhu kuyinani elingaphezulu kwezinhlangano ezikhulu ngokwanele ukukhombisa: 150 100% 89.0% i-10% yemali ekhokhwa yi-IFP ezweni lonke Ukususa ama-program ancane kakhulu olwazisa ahamba nezinga 0.0 amaphuzu
Umsuka: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · isithombe · isithombe esifanayo sohlelo ngalunye esikwazi ukushicilela
Izinto ezikuvumela ukuthi ukwenze
Imali ihlobene nemisebenzi, hhayi negunya. Lawa msebenzi akusho ukuthi ufanele usebenze.
| Imisebenzi | Ingabe kudingeka? | I-median | Abasebenza |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapists | Legally required to hold the job | $102,760 | 267,330 |
Imali ephakathi nemisebenzi: I-BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Ingabe ikhokhela ngokwayo?
Umsebenzi ovula lokhu ukhokha umphakathi we $102,760, 1.1 $50,020 ngaphesheya nganoma iyiphi umsebenzi sishicilela - premium mayelana $52,740 singakwazi ukushintsha lokho kube yisikhathi sokubuyiselwa imali, ngoba akukho sithombe esithembekile esikhona sokuthi yini le mali edingekayo ukuthola - inhlamvu ye-calculation ikhona futhi ishicilelwe, kanti enye inhlamvu asinayo.
Funda lokhu njengelinganiso kumsebenzi ojwayelekile, hhayi kumsebenzi wakho. Yini le sisekelo, nokuthi yini eshiya ngaphandle
futhi icabanga ukuthi uthola umsebenzi. Wonke umbhalo wokukhokha emuva kule sayithi uhambisana nokusebenza. Lokhu kuyisinqumo sokuba umsebenzisi ogunyaziwe uthola ubalo phezulu ukhona ukubheka, futhi kuyisinqumo sokuba wonke amanye amasayithi okukhokha akwenza ngokucophelela.
Odingayo ngaphambi kokuqala
- A bachelor's degree with prerequisite science coursework
- A CAPTE-accredited Doctor of Physical Therapy programme
- A pass in the National Physical Therapy Examination
Ungayenzi lokhu uma
- 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
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