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Occupational Therapist Assistant Overview - Preparation - Day In The Life - Earnings - Employment - Career Path Forecast - Professional Organizations


Employment and Earnings
Occupational therapist assistants hold about 33,000 jobs in the United States.  The largest employers of occupational therapy assistants were as follows:

Offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists

40%

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)

18

Hospitals; state, local, and private

17

Home healthcare services

6

Educational services; state, local, and private

5


 


The median annual wage for occupational therapy assistants was $59,010 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $39,160, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $80,090.

In May 2016, the median annual wages for occupational therapy assistants in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

Home healthcare services

$66,430

Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities)

64,710

Offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists

59,600

Hospitals; state, local, and private

52,770

Educational services; state, local, and private

47,56

Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.


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