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Occupation Therapists
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Job Numbers and Growth
The number of employed occupation therapists is about 99,000. This occupation has a very low unemployment rating.
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
Approximately 30% of employees work part time. 9% of occupation therapists have ended up working for themlseves.
Training and Education
People with a master's degree have an easier time finding a job in this career. The percentage of employees with at least a 4 year degree or higher is 90%. Approximately 9% of occupation therapists started in college but were able to get a job without a degree. 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
Jobs for this occupation are more popular (on a per capita basis) in Haverhill (Massachusetts), Wichita Falls (Texas), and San Angelo (Texas), and less popular in Huntsville (Alabama), Davenport (Iowa), and Bakersfield (California).
Without adjusting for the cost of living, employees get paid the most in Terre Haute (Indiana), Naples (Florida), and Valdosta (Georgia), and the least in Phoenix (Arizona), Wichita Falls (Texas), and San Angelo (Texas).
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Occupation Therapists: Job and Salary Data by Metropolitan Area
The table below shows data for Occupation Therapists, as of 2008. The Popularity in Area number tells you how common jobs for Occupation Therapists 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 Occupation Therapists are starred .
State Area Positions Typical Pay Popularity in Area Alabama Birmingham 430 $65,670 1.2 Alabama Gadsden 50 $76,460 2.5Alabama Huntsville 50 $72,410 0.4 Alabama Mobile 100 $56,030 0.8 Alabama Montgomery 60 $77,050 0.5 Alabama Tuscaloosa 30 $62,070 0.5 Alaska Anchorage 100 $69,720 0.9 Arizona Flagstaff 40 $69,600 1.2 Arizona Phoenix 980 $49,770 0.7 Arizona Prescott 110 $71,360 2.8Arkansas Fayetteville 70 $61,420 0.5 Arkansas Fort Smith 60 $72,480 0.8 Arkansas Little Rock 370 $68,160 1.6 California Bakersfield 50 $77,270 0.3 California Chico 70 $84,640 1.6 California Fresno 170 $80,900 0.7 California Modesto 80 $63,240 0.7 California Oakland 570 $82,130 0.8 California Oxnard 230 $84,080 1.1 California Riverside 430 $77,790 0.5 California Sacramento 510 $81,620 0.8 California Salinas 80 $78,730 0.8 California San Diego 810 $76,320 0.9 California San Francisco 380 $93,050 0.5 California San Jose 420 $81,360 0.6 California Santa Ana 970 $78,500 0.9 California Santa Barbara 50 $78,630 0.4 California Santa Cruz 30 $59,810 0.5 California Santa Rosa 100 $66,800 0.8 California Stockton 80 $79,240 0.5 California Vallejo 50 $77,630 0.6 Colorado Boulder 180 $62,030 1.7 Colorado Colorado Springs 200 $67,790 1.2 Colorado Denver 1,010 $64,560 1.1 Colorado Fort Collins 150 $61,930 1.9 Colorado Grand Junction 40 $62,050 1.1 Colorado Greeley 80 $57,690 1.7 Colorado Pueblo 40 $63,240 1.2 Connecticut Bridgeport 490 $74,640 1.6 Connecticut Danbury 50 $72,040 1.1 Connecticut Hartford 600 $79,120 1.5 Connecticut New Haven 290 $72,810 1.5 Connecticut Norwich 90 $67,200 1.1 Connecticut Waterbury 80 $80,570 1.9 Delaware Wilmington 260 $63,430 1.1 District of Columbia Washington 910 $77,340 0.6 Florida Cape Coral 90 $69,860 0.6 Florida Deltona 90 $69,480 0.9 Florida Fort Lauderdale 470 $75,120 0.9 Florida Gainesville 150 $54,800 2 Florida Jacksonville 380 $68,580 0.9 Florida Lakeland 50 $75,260 0.4 Florida Miami 750 $71,490 1.1 Florida Naples 80 $96,020 1 Florida Ocala 40 $71,610 0.7 Florida Palm Bay 140 $54,630 1.1 Florida Pensacola 60 $66,590 0.6 Florida Port St Lucie 110 $80,500 1.3 Florida Punta Gorda 40 $77,120 1.7 Florida Sarasota 250 $63,740 1.4 Florida Sebastian 50 $77,900 1.7 Florida Tallahassee 110 $62,370 1 Florida Tampa 760 $80,180 0.9 Florida West Palm Beach 310 $73,940 0.8 Georgia Athens 40 $64,540 0.8 Georgia Atlanta 980 $70,960 0.6 Georgia Augusta 180 $64,550 1.3 Georgia Columbus 40 $64,480 0.6 Georgia Macon 60 $67,920 0.9 Georgia Rome 40 $63,730 1.9 Georgia Savannah 60 $67,110 0.6 Georgia Valdosta 70 $88,500 2Hawaii Honolulu 190 $66,070 0.6 Idaho Boise 210 $61,150 1.1 Illinois Bloomington 30 $61,910 0.7 Illinois Champaign 70 $75,770 1.2 Illinois Chicago 2,840 $74,560 1 Illinois Peoria 100 $71,880 0.9 Illinois Rockford 90 $71,600 0.9 Illinois Springfield 30 $61,440 0.4 Indiana Anderson 30 $61,240 1.3 Indiana Bloomington 60 $60,760 1.4 Indiana Elkhart 50 $75,540 0.6 Indiana Evansville 190 $60,880 1.6 Indiana Fort Wayne 190 $62,530 1.3 Indiana Gary 210 $81,720 1.1 Indiana Indianapolis 950 $69,680 1.5 Indiana Kokomo 30 $72,780 1.4 Indiana South Bend 90 $62,020 1 Indiana Terre Haute 40 $92,160 0.9 Iowa Cedar Rapids 80 $55,220 0.9 Iowa Davenport 40 $59,820 0.3 Iowa Des Moines 200 $59,170 0.9 Iowa Iowa City 40 $62,670 0.9 Iowa Waterloo 50 $57,150 0.9 Kansas Topeka 80 $65,460 1.1 Kansas Wichita 210 $66,530 1 Kentucky Elizabethtown 30 $67,770 1.1 Kentucky Lexington 100 $63,360 0.6 Kentucky Louisville 340 $70,750 0.8 Kentucky Owensboro 30 $63,140 1 Louisiana Alexandria 60 $65,290 1.6 Louisiana Baton Rouge 270 $70,160 1.1 Louisiana Lafayette 60 $73,020 0.6 Louisiana Lake Charles 30 $74,910 0.5 Louisiana Monroe 40 $67,640 0.8 Louisiana New Orleans 290 $76,660 0.8 Louisiana Shreveport 210 $72,890 1.8 Maine Lewiston 40 $56,680 1.3 Maine Portland 190 $57,000 1.4 Maryland Baltimore 1,320 $77,700 1.4 Maryland Bethesda 290 $80,180 0.7 Maryland Cumberland 60 $72,110 2.9Maryland Hagerstown 40 $76,390 0.6 Maryland Salisbury 70 $71,650 2.2Massachusetts Barnstable Town 140 $73,250 2.1Massachusetts Boston 1,870 $68,460 1.5 Massachusetts Brockton 90 $61,100 1.6 Massachusetts Framingham 240 $56,490 2.2Massachusetts Haverhill 230 $63,590 4.7Massachusetts Lawrence 70 $61,880 2 Massachusetts Lowell 120 $63,220 1.5 Massachusetts New Bedford 60 $73,010 1.5 Massachusetts Springfield 340 $62,590 1.6 Massachusetts Taunton 50 $68,160 1.8 Massachusetts Worcester 290 $70,560 1.7 Michigan Ann Arbor 220 $62,620 2 Michigan Battle Creek 80 $64,800 2.7Michigan Bay City 40 $52,650 2 Michigan Detroit 760 $66,590 1.5 Michigan Flint 170 $54,910 1.9 Michigan Grand Rapids 380 $61,630 1.4 Michigan Holland 60 $66,960 0.9 Michigan Kalamazoo 110 $64,330 1.2 Michigan Lansing 130 $62,180 1 Michigan Muskegon 50 $62,880 1.3 Michigan Niles 40 $59,540 1 Michigan Saginaw 120 $62,530 2.5Michigan Warren 1,230 $71,710 1.5 Minnesota Duluth 120 $58,240 1.4 Minnesota Minneapolis 1,340 $61,000 1.1 Minnesota Rochester 120 $63,690 2 Minnesota St Cloud 100 $59,320 1.5 Mississippi Gulfport 70 $72,420 1 Mississippi Hattiesburg 50 $58,080 1.4 Mississippi Jackson 240 $67,740 1.4 Mississippi Pascagoula 80 $67,410 2.8Missouri Columbia 80 $60,650 1.5 Missouri Joplin 100 $54,580 1.9 Missouri Kansas City 850 $63,020 1.2 Missouri Springfield 90 $68,810 0.7 Missouri St Louis 1,250 $60,410 1.3 Montana Billings 40 $58,370 0.8 Montana Missoula 50 $61,000 1.6 Nebraska Lincoln 110 $68,440 1 Nebraska Omaha 340 $58,070 1.1 Nevada Las Vegas 430 $86,960 0.7 Nevada Reno 160 $61,620 1.1 New Hampshire Manchester 120 $58,280 1.8 New Hampshire Nashua 140 $56,170 1.5 New Hampshire Portsmouth 40 $66,120 1.1 New Hampshire Rochester 50 $66,450 1.4 New Jersey Atlantic City 80 $77,630 0.8 New Jersey Camden 440 $78,300 1.2 New Jersey Edison 850 $81,230 1.2 New Jersey Newark 580 $80,500 0.8 New Jersey Trenton 250 $75,830 1.7 New Mexico Albuquerque 230 $53,800 0.8 New Mexico Las Cruces 60 $64,950 1.6 New York Albany 520 $61,070 1.7 New York Binghamton 130 $68,330 1.9 New York Buffalo 800 $52,080 2.1New York Elmira 40 $57,040 1.9 New York Kingston 50 $70,040 1.4 New York Nassau 1,000 $69,670 1.1 New York New York 3,860 $72,360 1.1 New York Poughkeepsie 180 $73,750 1.1 New York Rochester 460 $61,130 1.3 New York Syracuse 270 $63,890 1.3 New York Utica 180 $59,620 2.1North Carolina Asheville 170 $68,950 1.4 North Carolina Charlotte 520 $71,120 0.8 North Carolina Durham 330 $64,970 1.8 North Carolina Fayetteville 90 $66,610 1.1 North Carolina Greensboro 150 $77,660 0.6 North Carolina Greenville 60 $67,390 1.3 North Carolina Hickory 100 $63,120 0.9 North Carolina Raleigh 320 $61,370 0.9 North Carolina Rocky Mount 50 $77,180 1.4 North Carolina Wilmington 170 $52,370 1.8 North Carolina Winston Salem 220 $63,140 1.5 North Dakota Bismarck 50 $50,160 1.4 North Dakota Fargo 100 $59,170 1.3 Ohio Akron 160 $69,000 0.7 Ohio Canton 150 $83,420 1.3 Ohio Cincinnati 1,020 $69,720 1.4 Ohio Cleveland 810 $76,640 1.1 Ohio Columbus 650 $66,630 1 Ohio Dayton 300 $74,610 1.1 Ohio Lima 40 $67,280 1.2 Ohio Mansfield 40 $68,990 1.3 Ohio Toledo 290 $81,570 1.3 Ohio Youngstown 200 $69,290 1.2 Oklahoma Oklahoma City 380 $64,560 1 Oklahoma Tulsa 220 $59,100 0.7 Oregon Bend 60 $63,320 1.4 Oregon Eugene 50 $71,630 0.5 Oregon Medford 40 $64,280 0.7 Oregon Portland 670 $62,580 0.9 Oregon Salem 60 $64,320 0.6 Pennsylvania Altoona 70 $52,490 1.9 Pennsylvania Erie 70 $57,610 0.8 Pennsylvania Harrisburg 190 $69,650 0.9 Pennsylvania Lancaster 160 $64,250 1 Pennsylvania Lebanon 40 $67,110 1.4 Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1,980 $68,690 1.5 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh 1,210 $58,440 1.5 Pennsylvania Reading 190 $79,710 1.7 Pennsylvania Scranton 460 $56,750 2.6Pennsylvania Williamsport 40 $57,850 1.3 Pennsylvania York 190 $64,910 1.6 Rhode Island Providence 540 $68,700 1.4 South Carolina Charleston 190 $59,280 0.9 South Carolina Columbia 220 $74,590 0.9 South Carolina Florence 80 $66,900 1.5 South Carolina Greenville 100 $64,510 0.5 South Carolina Spartanburg 70 $61,470 0.9 South Dakota Rapid City 50 $57,470 1.3 South Dakota Sioux Falls 110 $57,310 1.2 Tennessee Chattanooga 150 $66,970 0.9 Tennessee Jackson 60 $63,090 1.7 Tennessee Johnson City 40 $63,640 0.8 Tennessee Kingsport 70 $73,710 0.9 Tennessee Knoxville 150 $65,670 0.6 Tennessee Memphis 330 $78,350 0.8 Tennessee Nashville 300 $68,650 0.6 Texas Abilene 110 2.8Texas Amarillo 50 $63,240 0.8 Texas Austin 530 $56,060 1 Texas Beaumont 50 $71,630 0.5 Texas Brownsville 100 $66,370 1.2 Texas Corpus Christi 100 $50,310 0.8 Texas Dallas 1,700 $70,580 1.1 Texas El Paso 210 $85,170 1.2 Texas Fort Worth 640 $72,360 1.1 Texas Houston 1,270 $67,740 0.7 Texas Killeen 30 $68,620 0.4 Texas Laredo 70 $84,030 1.3 Texas Longview 30 $60,980 0.5 Texas Lubbock 130 $53,350 1.6 Texas Mcallen 180 $74,830 1.2 Texas Odessa 30 $73,550 0.9 Texas San Angelo 70 $31,580 2.9Texas San Antonio 740 $73,400 1.2 Texas Sherman 40 $79,500 1.7 Texas Texarkana 80 $72,920 2.4Texas Tyler 80 $72,700 1.4 Texas Victoria 50 $61,040 1.8 Texas Waco 50 $68,460 0.8 Texas Wichita Falls 110 $37,380 3.1Utah Ogden 80 $58,290 0.6 Utah Provo 50 $64,530 0.4 Utah Salt Lake City 170 $63,960 0.4 Vermont Burlington 50 $59,010 0.7 Virginia Charlottesville 130 $67,020 2.2Virginia Lynchburg 80 $72,390 1.2 Virginia Richmond 400 $66,150 1 Virginia Roanoke 140 $73,940 1.3 Virginia Virginia Beach 420 $72,470 0.8 Virginia Winchester 60 $72,430 1.9 Washington Bremerton 70 $68,280 1.3 Washington Kennewick 40 $70,930 0.7 Washington Mount Vernon 30 $64,660 1.1 Washington Olympia 50 $66,090 0.8 Washington Seattle 810 $68,330 0.8 Washington Spokane 200 $63,050 1.4 Washington Tacoma 270 $63,610 1.5 Washington Yakima 30 $73,660 0.6 West Virginia Charleston 70 $63,810 0.7 West Virginia Huntington 60 $70,950 0.8 West Virginia Morgantown 40 $66,400 1.4 West Virginia Weirton 60 $69,050 2.4West Virginia Wheeling 30 $61,870 0.8 Wisconsin Appleton 70 $64,410 0.9 Wisconsin Eau Claire 60 $63,290 1.2 Wisconsin Fond 30 $60,160 1.1 Wisconsin Green Bay 170 $60,450 1.5 Wisconsin Janesville 50 $62,440 1.2 Wisconsin La Crosse 90 $59,290 2.1Wisconsin Madison 270 $60,700 1.2 Wisconsin Milwaukee 1,050 $59,400 1.8 Wisconsin Oshkosh 90 $62,260 1.7 Wisconsin Racine 60 $54,430 1.2 Wisconsin Sheboygan 60 $64,760 1.7 Wisconsin Wausau 30 $58,070 0.7 Wyoming Casper 40 $63,330 1.8 Wyoming Cheyenne 30 $65,520 1.2
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