Therapists, All Other salary

SOC 29-1129 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$77,930

per year, nationally

Middle half

$58,850–$105,760

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

22,640

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+11.5%

4,100 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$46,540$152,530

10th: $46,540
25th: $58,850
Median: $77,930
75th: $105,760
90th: $152,530

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Bachelor's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: None

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where therapists, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$127,010	109.9	80	0.75×
2	Illinois	$116,200	100.0	1,060	1.19×
3	New Jersey	$100,250	108.8	7,090	11.36×
4	Hawaii	$99,560	110.0	40	0.41×
5	Washington	$98,550	107.0	—	—
6	South Carolina	$90,980	93.7	70	0.21×
7	Delaware	$90,120	99.8	30	0.48×
8	Nebraska	$86,900	90.1	40	0.25×
9	Rhode Island	$86,400	102.3	90	1.22×
10	Oregon	$81,860	103.4	170	0.61×
11	California	$81,760	110.7	840	0.31×
12	New York	$77,980	107.9	1,110	0.79×
13	Kansas	$76,740	90.1	170	0.81×
14	Minnesota	$75,360	98.6	500	1.17×
15	Kentucky	$75,060	90.2	190	0.66×
16	Texas	$74,750	97.1	1,320	0.65×
17	Virginia	$70,890	101.1	420	0.71×
18	Ohio	$70,700	92.8	540	0.67×
19	Massachusetts	$69,050	105.8	170	0.31×
20	New Hampshire	$69,040	104.2	100	1.04×
21	Alabama	$68,270	88.8	30	0.10×
22	West Virginia	$67,580	89.5	—	—
23	Colorado	$65,080	103.1	160	0.39×
24	Florida	$64,600	103.4	440	0.30×
25	Louisiana	$64,530	88.2	690	2.45×
26	Arizona	$63,750	100.7	360	0.76×
27	Pennsylvania	$62,310	97.6	710	0.81×
28	Arkansas	$61,920	86.9	460	2.40×
29	Utah	$61,770	98.9	70	0.27×
30	Indiana	$61,720	93.3	350	0.76×
31	Missouri	$60,990	90.8	340	0.79×
32	North Carolina	$60,400	94.3	530	0.73×
33	Oklahoma	$60,090	87.8	—	—
34	Wisconsin	$59,420	94.1	280	0.66×
35	Georgia	$59,380	96.3	970	1.36×
36	Michigan	$57,970	96.2	320	0.50×
37	Tennessee	$56,690	91.9	210	0.43×
38	Maryland	$49,400	105.0	1,310	3.25×
39	Connecticut	$47,300	103.6	510	2.05×
40	Mississippi	$44,280	87.0	140	0.82×
41	Nevada	$38,260	100.0	—	—

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where therapists, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for therapists, all other

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$157,510	103.6	—	—
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$122,120	115.6	100	0.30×
3	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$112,070	92.9	80	1.81×
4	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$108,650	98.9	100	4.14×
5	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$104,470	99.6	40	0.59×
6	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$101,920	109.4	70	1.76×
7	Baton Rouge, LA	$100,390	90.8	130	2.24×
8	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	$99,180	91.4	30	0.82×
9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$98,550	111.1	—	—
10	Jonesboro, AR	$97,190	85.9	50	5.51×
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$96,820	112.6	—	—
12	Akron, OH	$91,080	93.4	40	0.92×
13	Columbus, OH	$90,720	95.5	100	0.65×
14	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$90,130	105.4	90	0.53×
15	Lubbock, TX	$88,690	91.3	40	1.46×
16	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$88,330	111.9	40	0.20×
17	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$86,400	101.8	100	0.94×
18	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$83,200	103.2	220	6.16×
19	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$81,860	101.6	40	1.79×
20	Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA	$81,660	85.1	—	—
21	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$81,470	106.7	50	0.30×
22	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$81,340	98.1	140	0.76×
23	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$81,170	102.6	1,330	3.16×
24	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$80,410	94.7	110	0.69×
25	Knoxville, TN	$79,280	92.6	60	0.95×
26	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$79,040	110.4	—	—
27	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$77,610	113.6	370	0.40×
28	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$76,630	108.9	480	1.04×
29	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$76,110	114.2	150	0.35×
30	Corpus Christi, TX	$75,870	92.7	50	1.63×
31	Wichita, KS	$75,540	88.9	40	0.87×
32	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$75,350	104.8	370	1.31×
33	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$75,120	103.1	370	0.63×
34	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$74,790	106.4	80	0.32×
35	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$73,930	100.0	90	1.56×
36	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$73,600	95.8	50	0.70×
37	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$73,250	105.8	70	0.31×
38	Fort Smith, AR-OK	$70,520	85.9	60	4.46×
39	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$69,500	108.3	130	0.33×
40	New Haven, CT	$68,820	104.6	80	1.90×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where therapists, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.