Industry snapshot · 2026
What the rehab therapy
industry looks like, today.
Pulled from UpDoc’s Job Market Pulse 2025 (Year Ten), the longest-running salary and workforce study in rehab therapy. 200+ respondents, ten years of trends. Bookmark this page; it refreshes every year when the next Pulse lands.
Intention to Stay
7.6
2025 industry mean. Healthy band is 7.5-8.5. Below 6 is a live turnover risk.
PT average pay
$96.8k
All settings, full-time equivalent, 2025 dollars.
Pay ↔ stay correlation
0.59
Pearson’s. Real but weak. Pay matters; it isn’t the lever.
Burnout valley
yr 20 years
Mid-career clinicians (15-20 years) score lowest at 6.5. The hardest cohort to replace.
PT pay by clinical setting
JMP 2025, average per-annum equivalent. Use this when you’re evaluating an offer or pricing your own role.
| Primary care | $115k |
| Home health | $109k |
| Telehealth | $108.7k |
| Hospital outpatient | $105k |
| SNF / LTAC | $104k |
| Mixed | $103k |
| Acute care | $95k |
| Outpatient (private practice) | $94k |
| Outpatient neuro | $94k |
| Acute / inpatient rehab | $93k |
| Academic / research | $92k |
| Pediatric | $87k |
| Private pay | $83k |
| School-based | $78k |
| School-based pediatric | $73k |
| Outpatient at home (Part B) | $73k |
Intention to Stay by years of experience
JMP 2025 Year Ten. The shape is non-monotonic, and that’s the point: ItS peaks at 8-10 years, craters at 15-20 (the burnout valley), then recovers at the late-career tail.
7.0
<1y
7.3
1-2y
7.6
3-5y
7.7
6-8y
8.2
8-10y
8.1
10-12y
7.0
12-15y
6.5
15-20y
10.0
20-25y
9.3
25+y
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Source: Job Market Pulse 2025 Year Ten Report, UpDoc Media. Salary by setting from p14, ItS by experience from p18, pay-stay correlation from p23. ItS, supervisor, and upper-management means from the “Actionable Insights” section (p28-29).
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Anonymity: survey responses carry no user_id. Timestamps are bucketed to 15 minutes. UpDoc holds the email-to-PIN map; the employer never sees who responded. The numbers above are aggregated from 200+ respondents and cannot be reverse-mapped to individuals.