PT by the numbers
Employed nationally (2024)
267,200
Median annual wage (2024)
$101,020
≈ $48.57 / hour
Projected growth (2024-2034)
11%
Much faster than average
Projected new jobs (2024-2034)
29,300
added through the decade
Entry requirements
Typical entry-level education: Doctoral or professional degree
About this data
Numbers come from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which BLS refreshes annually using its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey and Employment Projections program. We re-pull this page on a weekly schedule and write it to a JSON file in this repo; when BLS publishes new annual figures, this page updates and a refresh item posts to the news feed.
Disclaimer
These are national aggregates. Individual states, metros, and practice settings vary widely — clinic-owner ranges, school-system ranges, and home-health ranges all differ from the national median. For the underlying detail, see BLS OEWS 29-1123 state and area data.