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Fitness Trainers And Instructors
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Job Numbers and Growth
The number of jobs for fitness trainers and instructors in the US is about 235,000. Recent data shows that this occupation has a high level of unemployment.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Of those working as employees, 38% work fewer than 40 hours per week. Around 8% of fitness trainers and instructors are independent contractors.
Training and Education
A postsecondary vocational award is often required to work in this field. Survey data provided by the government shows that 47% of employees have a bachelor's degree or higher. 32% of fitness trainers and instructors attended college, but do not have a degree. 21% of workers were able to find a job with only a high school education. Recommended schools are shown in the column to the right; request information from them to help you decide which, if any, could help you with this career.
Area Job Conditions
On a per capita basis, there are more jobs for employees in Danbury (Connecticut), Great Falls (Montana), and Kankakee (Illinois), and fewer jobs in El Paso (Texas), Brownsville (Texas), and Chattanooga (Tennessee).
Compensation for fitness trainers and instructors is the most in Barnstable (Massachusetts), New York (New York), and Trenton (New Jersey), and the lowest in Odessa (Texas), Beaumont (Texas), and Elizabethtown (Kentucky).
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Fitness Trainers And Instructors: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Fitness Trainers And Instructors, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Fitness Trainers And Instructors are in the area, compared to other US metro areas. A value of 1.0 means an average number of people in the position for area population. Lower numbers mean fewer of these positions in the metro area. The most popular areas for Fitness Trainers And Instructors are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Auburn 80 $26,020 1.2 Alabama Birmingham 760 $32,570 0.8 Alabama Florence 70 $32,540 0.9 Alabama Gadsden 90 $29,930 1.8 Alabama Huntsville 190 $27,730 0.5 Alabama Mobile 270 $30,510 0.9 Alabama Montgomery 380 $27,500 1.3 Alabama Tuscaloosa 140 $24,160 1 Alaska Anchorage 310 $39,040 1.1 Alaska Fairbanks 60 $29,630 1.2 Arizona Flagstaff 70 $28,390 0.8 Arizona Kingman 100 $28,020 1.3 Arizona Phoenix 3,790 $34,770 1.1 Arizona Prescott 120 $29,890 1.2 Arizona Tucson 970 $30,850 1.5 Arkansas Hot Springs 70 1.3 Arkansas Jonesboro 90 $24,370 1.2 Arkansas Little Rock 270 $22,470 0.5 California Bakersfield 200 $32,410 0.4 California Chico 310 $35,040 2.8California Fresno 260 $43,280 0.4 California Hanford 50 $34,070 1.2 California Merced 70 $28,610 0.8 California Modesto 330 $35,220 1.2 California Napa 140 $36,600 1.4 California Oakland 2,380 $40,950 1.3 California Oxnard 980 $37,550 1.9 California Redding 120 $38,920 1.1 California Riverside 2,330 $32,620 1 California Sacramento 1,950 $42,860 1.2 California Salinas 210 $35,340 0.8 California San Diego 2,860 $35,130 1.2 California San Francisco 3,010 $45,700 1.7 California San Jose 2,010 $48,670 1.2 California San Luis Obispo 390 $33,760 2.4California Santa Ana 2,760 $36,430 1 California Santa Barbara 480 $36,090 1.7 California Santa Cruz 380 $44,600 2.7California Santa Rosa 750 $41,830 2.4California Stockton 320 $30,550 0.9 California Vallejo 350 $39,590 1.7 California Visalia 80 $34,200 0.4 Colorado Boulder 820 $39,740 3Colorado Colorado Springs 830 $32,940 1.9 Colorado Denver 3,520 $38,420 1.6 Colorado Fort Collins 570 $38,150 2.8Colorado Greeley 150 $29,490 1.2 Colorado Pueblo 140 $21,270 1.7 Connecticut Bridgeport 1,480 $46,680 1.9 Connecticut Danbury 370 $33,090 3.3Connecticut Hartford 1,000 $35,030 1 Connecticut New Haven 460 $40,740 0.9 Connecticut Norwich 160 $34,080 0.8 Connecticut Waterbury 150 $33,260 1.4 Delaware Wilmington 730 $26,490 1.3 District of Columbia Washington 4,920 $42,900 1.2 Florida Cape Coral 240 $39,230 0.7 Florida Deltona 380 $24,220 1.4 Florida Fort Walton Beach 130 $32,700 1.1 Florida Gainesville 180 0.9 Florida Jacksonville 720 $33,660 0.7 Florida Lakeland 190 $27,910 0.6 Florida Naples 240 $39,080 1.2 Florida Ocala 100 $30,820 0.6 Florida Orlando 800 $34,830 0.4 Florida Palm Bay 230 $30,080 0.7 Florida Pensacola 200 $34,820 0.8 Florida Punta Gorda 110 $33,630 1.8 Florida Sarasota 490 $25,330 1.1 Florida Sebastian 70 $32,760 0.9 Florida Tallahassee 380 $29,840 1.4 Florida Tampa 1,900 $31,690 0.9 Florida West Palm Beach 1,090 $35,820 1.1 Georgia Athens 140 $34,210 1.2 Georgia Atlanta 3,120 $37,010 0.7 Georgia Augusta 310 $29,320 0.9 Georgia Brunswick 70 $24,650 1.1 Georgia Columbus 150 $33,370 0.8 Georgia Warner Robins 60 $36,980 0.8 Hawaii Honolulu 580 $24,450 0.8 Idaho Coeur Dalene 130 $26,880 1.5 Illinois Bloomington 270 $38,800 2.4Illinois Champaign 230 $34,760 1.5 Illinois Chicago 8,770 $34,710 1.3 Illinois Danville 50 $18,990 1.4 Illinois Decatur 130 $20,680 1.8 Illinois Kankakee 170 $22,340 3Illinois Rockford 160 $26,850 0.6 Illinois Springfield 130 $25,960 0.8 Indiana Bloomington 70 $19,970 0.6 Indiana Evansville 150 $33,090 0.5 Indiana Fort Wayne 210 $26,150 0.6 Indiana Gary 470 $33,440 1 Indiana Indianapolis 780 $34,730 0.5 Indiana Muncie 70 $20,270 1 Indiana South Bend 260 $25,720 1.1 Indiana Terre Haute 110 $22,410 1 Iowa Ames 70 $28,060 1.2 Iowa Cedar Rapids 230 $22,020 1 Iowa Davenport 230 $23,860 0.7 Iowa Des Moines 740 $28,160 1.3 Iowa Iowa City 160 $27,310 1.4 Iowa Sioux City 50 $20,460 0.4 Iowa Waterloo 120 $24,530 0.9 Kansas Lawrence 150 $25,600 2.2Kansas Topeka 350 $23,380 1.9 Kansas Wichita 900 $25,990 1.7 Kentucky Bowling Green 100 $37,050 1.1 Kentucky Elizabethtown 80 $14,570 1.2 Kentucky Lexington 400 $29,610 1 Kentucky Louisville 660 $32,560 0.6 Louisiana Baton Rouge 400 $27,890 0.6 Louisiana Lafayette 130 $39,290 0.5 Louisiana Monroe 100 $29,880 0.8 Louisiana New Orleans 500 $23,720 0.6 Louisiana Shreveport 100 $24,140 0.3 Maine Bangor 120 $26,540 1.2 Maine Portland 190 0.5 Maryland Baltimore 3,700 $31,350 1.6 Maryland Bethesda 1,190 $34,410 1.2 Maryland Cumberland 90 $20,240 1.7 Maryland Hagerstown 250 $17,700 1.5 Maryland Salisbury 180 $31,140 2.2Massachusetts Barnstable Town 120 $49,600 0.7 Massachusetts Boston 4,750 $51,120 1.5 Massachusetts Brockton 210 $28,790 1.4 Massachusetts Framingham 330 $48,220 1.2 Massachusetts Haverhill 260 $37,740 2.1Massachusetts Lawrence 60 $42,930 0.7 Massachusetts Leominster 130 1.7 Massachusetts New Bedford 50 $30,560 0.5 Massachusetts Pittsfield 70 $30,830 1.4 Massachusetts Springfield 460 $27,990 0.9 Massachusetts Taunton 100 $36,360 1.4 Michigan Ann Arbor 250 $33,920 0.9 Michigan Detroit 710 $27,880 0.6 Michigan Grand Rapids 850 $27,260 1.3 Michigan Jackson 160 $22,310 2 Michigan Kalamazoo 300 $22,520 1.3 Michigan Lansing 430 $30,060 1.3 Michigan Niles 140 $20,950 1.4 Michigan Saginaw 80 $21,520 0.7 Michigan Warren 2,160 $25,900 1 Minnesota Duluth 260 $24,320 1.2 Minnesota Minneapolis 3,720 $28,190 1.2 Minnesota Rochester 120 $35,470 0.8 Minnesota St Cloud 90 $25,410 0.5 Mississippi Gulfport 240 $31,970 1.3 Mississippi Jackson 410 $31,990 0.9 Missouri Columbia 130 $30,260 1 Missouri Jefferson City 190 $23,080 1.7 Missouri Joplin 50 $21,410 0.4 Missouri Kansas City 1,770 $29,890 1 Missouri Springfield 650 $21,830 1.9 Missouri St Louis 2,870 $26,520 1.2 Montana Billings 130 $33,570 1 Montana Great Falls 160 $21,060 3.1Montana Missoula 190 $25,870 2.4Nebraska Lincoln 310 $27,870 1.1 Nebraska Omaha 820 $32,630 1 Nevada Las Vegas 1,360 $37,390 0.8 Nevada Reno 420 $46,550 1.2 New Hampshire Manchester 380 $28,550 2.2New Hampshire Nashua 300 $32,450 1.3 New Jersey Atlantic City 180 $39,450 0.7 New Jersey Camden 1,170 $40,840 1.2 New Jersey Edison 3,550 $37,730 1.9 New Jersey Newark 2,170 $42,450 1.2 New Jersey Ocean City 40 $42,400 0.6 New Jersey Trenton 520 $47,120 1.4 New Jersey Vineland 90 $23,220 1 New Mexico Albuquerque 600 $28,310 0.9 New Mexico Santa Fe 30 $26,620 0.3 New York Albany 750 $28,070 1 New York Binghamton 100 $27,730 0.6 New York Buffalo 770 $25,830 0.8 New York Elmira 50 $28,830 1 New York Ithaca 80 1.2 New York Kingston 180 $29,140 1.9 New York Nassau 2,760 $53,020 1.2 New York New York 10,530 $53,650 1.1 New York Poughkeepsie 590 $40,130 1.4 New York Rochester 1,150 $30,570 1.3 New York Syracuse 550 $40,950 1 New York Utica 140 $22,830 0.7 North Carolina Asheville 240 $28,040 0.8 North Carolina Charlotte 1,670 $30,620 1.1 North Carolina Durham 500 $43,770 1.1 North Carolina Fayetteville 140 $22,430 0.7 North Carolina Goldsboro 30 $21,230 0.5 North Carolina Greenville 250 $27,690 2.2North Carolina Hickory 170 $21,810 0.6 North Carolina Raleigh 1,200 $35,240 1.3 North Carolina Wilmington 180 $34,530 0.7 North Carolina Winston Salem 650 $23,390 1.8 North Dakota Fargo 200 $21,070 1 North Dakota Grand Forks 110 $18,530 1.5 Ohio Akron 390 $25,270 0.7 Ohio Canton 260 $21,240 0.9 Ohio Cincinnati 1,560 $27,390 0.8 Ohio Cleveland 1,290 $27,780 0.7 Ohio Columbus 1,230 $31,700 0.7 Ohio Dayton 250 $23,360 0.4 Ohio Lima 130 $25,700 1.6 Ohio Springfield 80 $20,450 1.1 Ohio Toledo 630 $26,350 1.2 Ohio Youngstown 320 $24,010 0.8 Oklahoma Lawton 60 $20,020 1.1 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 800 $27,710 0.8 Oklahoma Tulsa 770 $29,180 1 Oregon Bend 270 $40,710 2.5Oregon Corvallis 130 $28,400 2.9Oregon Eugene 640 $37,970 2.5Oregon Medford 140 $26,350 1 Oregon Portland 1,950 $40,020 1.1 Oregon Salem 230 $37,200 0.9 Pennsylvania Allentown 840 $24,800 1.4 Pennsylvania Altoona 60 $21,360 0.6 Pennsylvania Erie 210 $22,270 1 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 570 $30,290 1 Pennsylvania Johnstown 80 $22,990 0.9 Pennsylvania Lancaster 520 $26,860 1.3 Pennsylvania Lebanon 40 $23,590 0.6 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 3,900 $28,320 1.2 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 1,760 $23,080 0.9 Pennsylvania Reading 360 $26,210 1.3 Pennsylvania Scranton 210 $29,740 0.5 Pennsylvania State College 110 $21,100 1.3 Pennsylvania Williamsport 40 $18,080 0.5 Pennsylvania York 650 $23,440 2.1Rhode Island Providence 990 $29,640 1 South Carolina Anderson 70 $26,090 0.7 South Carolina Charleston 500 $34,550 1 South Carolina Columbia 550 $34,910 0.9 South Carolina Florence 70 $27,160 0.5 South Carolina Greenville 620 $30,180 1.2 South Carolina Myrtle Beach 210 $32,770 1.1 South Carolina Spartanburg 240 $27,340 1.2 South Dakota Rapid City 130 $22,220 1.3 South Dakota Sioux Falls 380 $24,790 1.6 Tennessee Chattanooga 60 $33,360 0.1 Tennessee Johnson City 110 $28,740 0.9 Tennessee Kingsport 130 $27,360 0.7 Tennessee Knoxville 760 $34,290 1.3 Tennessee Memphis 550 $34,880 0.5 Tennessee Nashville 1,040 $30,200 0.8 Texas Austin 1,540 $31,320 1.1 Texas Beaumont 120 $21,300 0.5 Texas Brownsville 40 $20,100 0.2 Texas College Station 90 $29,350 0.7 Texas Dallas 3,680 $45,270 1 Texas El Paso 90 $23,850 0.2 Texas Fort Worth 980 $25,350 0.6 Texas Houston 2,780 $31,650 0.6 Texas Killeen 130 $33,560 0.7 Texas Laredo 90 $19,780 0.7 Texas Longview 70 $23,710 0.5 Texas Lubbock 110 $25,610 0.5 Texas Midland 60 $36,090 0.6 Texas Odessa 60 $20,930 0.7 Texas San Angelo 80 $27,760 1.3 Texas San Antonio 610 $28,050 0.4 Texas Tyler 220 $29,300 1.5 Texas Wichita Falls 90 $28,980 1 Utah Ogden 530 $37,010 1.5 Utah Salt Lake City 1,100 $38,990 1 Utah St George 180 $33,330 2.4Vermont Burlington 490 $28,920 2.7Virginia Charlottesville 260 $35,680 1.7 Virginia Harrisonburg 120 $25,550 1.4 Virginia Lynchburg 160 $27,050 1 Virginia Richmond 1,110 $30,280 1 Virginia Roanoke 320 $36,560 1.2 Virginia Virginia Beach 1,130 $28,260 0.8 Virginia Winchester 110 $24,490 1.4 Washington Bellingham 160 $38,240 1.2 Washington Bremerton 210 $38,170 1.6 Washington Kennewick 200 $34,430 1.4 Washington Longview 30 $25,280 0.6 Washington Mount Vernon 140 2.1Washington Olympia 230 $34,440 1.5 Washington Seattle 2,880 $42,870 1.1 Washington Spokane 320 $32,360 0.9 Washington Tacoma 900 $25,500 1.9 Washington Yakima 80 $28,940 0.6 West Virginia Charleston 120 $25,160 0.5 West Virginia Huntington 110 $19,480 0.6 West Virginia Morgantown 40 $25,340 0.6 West Virginia Parkersburg 100 $21,670 0.9 West Virginia Weirton 30 $30,010 0.5 West Virginia Wheeling 120 $21,500 1.2 Wisconsin Appleton 350 $24,310 1.8 Wisconsin Eau Claire 180 $19,320 1.5 Wisconsin Green Bay 510 $19,220 1.8 Wisconsin Janesville 130 $20,720 1.3 Wisconsin La Crosse 170 $18,990 1.6 Wisconsin Madison 1,050 $32,640 1.8 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,830 $22,800 1.2 Wisconsin Oshkosh 310 $24,350 2.3Wisconsin Racine 210 $25,030 1.7 Wisconsin Sheboygan 50 $25,650 0.6 Wisconsin Wausau 130 $19,720 1.2 Wyoming Cheyenne 80 $21,190 1.2
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