# Massage therapist: Therapy Workforce Benchmark

> The median published figure in the Therapy Workforce Benchmark is 72,490 USD across 4 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 38,340 to 102,760 USD), read 15 September 2026.

Soapvo · https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark/ · computed 2026-09-15

**Median published figure:** 72,490 USD (range 38,340 to 102,760 USD; 4 sources with a figure; 3 of 10 sources read publish one).

3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 15 September 2026.

## By profession

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| profession massage therapist | 58,450 USD | 58,450 to 58,450 USD | 1 |
| profession physical therapist | 102,760 USD | 102,760 to 102,760 USD | 1 |
| profession healthcare practitioners and technical | 86,530 USD | 86,530 to 86,530 USD | 1 |
| profession healthcare support | 38,340 USD | 38,340 to 38,340 USD | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physical-therapists.htm) | 102,760 USD | physical therapist | 2026-09-12 |
| [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm) | 86,530 USD | healthcare practitioners and technical | 2026-09-12 |
| [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: massage therapists](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/massage-therapists.htm) | 58,450 USD | massage therapist | 2026-09-12 |
| [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm) | 38,340 USD | healthcare support | 2026-09-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (4)

- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physical-therapists.htm), read 2026-09-12: "2025 Median Pay $102,760 per year"
- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm), read 2026-09-12: "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](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/massage-therapists.htm), read 2026-09-12: "2025 Median Pay $58,450 per year"
- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm), read 2026-09-12: "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

- [BLS OEWS 31-9011 massage therapists](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes319011.htm), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS OEWS 29-1123 physical therapists](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291123.htm), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS OEWS national occupational employment and wage estimates](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HCPC registrant data and statistics](https://www.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/insights-and-data/the-register/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ONS employment and employee types](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Census Bureau Statistics of US Businesses](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb.html), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm), 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 the estate's 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 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 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 in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 14 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. Derivation as chartered: 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.

## Sources

- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: massage therapists](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/massage-therapists.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: physical therapists](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physical-therapists.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS OEWS 31-9011 massage therapists](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes319011.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS OEWS 29-1123 physical therapists](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes291123.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS OEWS national occupational employment and wage estimates](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: healthcare occupations](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/home.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HCPC registrant data and statistics](https://www.hcpc-uk.org/about-us/insights-and-data/the-register/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS employment and employee types](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau Statistics of US Businesses](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS England NHS workforce statistics](https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [bls.gov](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The median published figure in the Therapy Workforce Benchmark is 72,490 USD across 4 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 38,340 to 102,760 USD), read 15 September 2026.
- 3 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 15 September 2026.
- Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession massage therapist: median 58,450 USD across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
- Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession physical therapist: median 102,760 USD across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
- Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession healthcare practitioners and technical: median 86,530 USD across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.
- Therapy Workforce Benchmark, profession healthcare support: median 38,340 USD across 1 source, read 15 September 2026.

Cite as: "Soapvo Therapy Workforce Benchmark", updated 2026-09-15, https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark/.

CSV: https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark.csv
JSON: https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark.json
Embed (plain HTML, static link back): see https://soapvo.com/datasets/therapy-workforce-benchmark/#median