Occupation / job
Therapists, All Other
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Therapists, All Other pays $77,930 at the midpoint, 56% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
22,640 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Therapists, All Other becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
These roles suit people who want responsibility for the whole of a patient’s problem rather than a part of it, and who can carry that home without it consuming them.
We carry no verified training length for Therapists, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of the field earns under $58,850 and a quarter over $105,760: $46,910 between them, a ratio of 1.8x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
At $58,850, or $28.29 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $8,830 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if the length and cost of the training would be unbearable if you changed your mind halfway.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 22,640 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $58,850 to $105,760 at a ratio of 1.8x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $77,930 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.
Put in money rather than ratios: $58,850 at the 25th percentile, $77,930 at the midpoint, $105,760 at the 75th. $46,910 separates the quarter of Therapists, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $105,760. Reaching it from the $77,930 midpoint is $27,830 a year; reaching it from the $58,850 that the bottom quarter of Therapists, All Other earn is $46,910.
The climb from $77,930 to $105,760 is $27,830, against $19,080 down to $58,850. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Therapists, All Other is larger than the realistic downside.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Therapists, All Other is $37.46 an hour. The quarters sit at $28.29 and $50.84, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $77,930 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
The hourly number on this page is $77,930 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Therapists, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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