Massage therapist: Therapy Workforce Benchmark
The Therapy Workforce Benchmark carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 38,340 to 102,760 USD, read 12 October 2026.
Soapvo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
3 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
By profession
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| professionmassage therapist | 58,450USD | 58,450 to 58,450USD | 1 |
| professionphysical therapist | 102,760USD | 102,760 to 102,760USD | 1 |
| professionhealthcare practitioners and technical | 86,530USD | 86,530 to 86,530USD | 1 |
| professionhealthcare support | 38,340USD | 38,340 to 38,340USD | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists | 102,760USD | physical therapist | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations | 86,530USD | healthcare practitioners and technical | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: massage therapists | 58,450USD | massage therapist | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations | 38,340USD | healthcare support | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (4)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists, read 2026-10-12:
2025 Median Pay $102,760 per year
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations, read 2026-10-12:
The median annual wage for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (such as dental hygienists, physicians and surgeons, and registered nurses) was $86,530 in May 2025, which was higher than the median annual wage for all occupations of $50,980.
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: massage therapists, read 2026-10-12:
2025 Median Pay $58,450 per year
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations, read 2026-10-12:
Healthcare support occupations (such as home health and personal care aides, medical transcriptionists, and occupational therapy assistants) had a median annual wage of $38,340 in May 2025, which was lower than the median annual wage for all occupations.
Read in full, publishes no figure
6 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- BLS OEWS 31-9011 massage therapists, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OEWS 29-1123 physical therapists, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OEWS national occupational employment and wage estimates, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- HCPC registrant data and statistics, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- ONS employment and employee types, read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US Census Bureau Statistics of US Businesses, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
3 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 6 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 4 figures, never sentences; 14 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): employment and pay per profession per country and per region from the statistical agency, joined to the register counts and to the pricing index, so the practice-budget page can state what nobody states together: what a practitioner in this profession earns, how many there are, and what share of that a seat of each system costs.
The multi-year series is the second figure - whether the profession is growing and whether software's share of a practitioner's income is rising.
14 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (10)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: massage therapists(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS 31-9011 massage therapists(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS 29-1123 physical therapists(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS national occupational employment and wage estimates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- HCPC registrant data and statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS employment and employee types(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US Census Bureau Statistics of US Businesses(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- NHS England NHS workforce statistics(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Therapy Workforce Benchmark carries 4 published figures read from 3 sources' own pages, from 38,340 to 102,760 USD, read 12 October 2026.
3 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 6 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession massage therapist: median 58,450 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession physical therapist: median 102,760 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession healthcare practitioners and technical: median 86,530 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession healthcare support: median 38,340 USD across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Cite as: "Soapvo Therapy Workforce Benchmark", updated 2026-10-18, https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark/.
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