Therapist Salary is an independent reference site for people deciding whether a therapy career pays: physical and occupational therapists and their assistants, speech-language pathologists and respiratory therapists. It answers with official numbers what each career pays in every state and metro area, what the degree costs and borrows against that pay under the 2026 federal loan rules, and what each license and exam takes.
What we do
- Official wage data down to the metro area. Every salary is a BLS OEWS May 2025 estimate (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile) for physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, speech-language pathologists and respiratory therapists, for the nation, all 50 states plus DC and each metro or nonmetro area, as published through O*NET OnLine by the U.S. Department of Labor, with BLS employment counts.
- Calculators you can check. The salary, take-home, comparison and school payback tools show their inputs and formulas; the 2026 federal tax math follows IRS Rev. Proc. 2025-32 and is covered by automated tests.
- Exam, school and license rules from the source. NPTE, NBCOT, Praxis and NBRC exam rules and fees, accreditor data on program length and tuition, interstate compact status and federal loan limits are summarized from the exam body, accreditor, compact commission, Federal Register or state board, linked and dated.
- No program or staffing ads in the content. We do not sell courses or exam prep, collect leads for schools, travel-therapy agencies or recruiters, or rank programs for payment.
Who we are
Therapist Salary is written and maintained by a small independent team in Türkiye that works from BLS and O*NET tables, CAPTE and ASHA program data, exam-body fee pages, the U.S. Code and state board rules rather than job-board samples. We are not affiliated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, FSBPT, NBCOT, ASHA, ETS, the NBRC, CAPTE, ACOTE, CoARC, AOTA, APTA, AARC, any interstate licensure compact, any state licensing board, school, clinic, hospital, employer or staffing agency.
How the site is funded
Display ads from Google AdSense pay for the site. No advertiser, school, clinic, hospital or staffing agency chooses which wages, programs or license rules we cover, and ads sit apart from the tables and calculators.
How we choose and check sources is in our editorial policy; the limits of survey wages, take-home and loan estimates are in our disclaimer; what data the site handles is in our privacy policy. Corrections and questions go through the contact page.