Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Physical Therapist Assistant: $69K median posted pay.
From 85 salary bands employers posted on 135 open physical therapist assistant roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmark Physical Therapy | 52 | — |
| Phoenix Home Care and Hospice | 8 | — |
| missionhealthcare | 7 | — |
| Blue United Sourcing | 6 | — |
| GTI | 4 | — |
| TransPerfect | 4 | — |
| Vcuhealth | 3 | — |
| Highmark Health | 3 | — |
| Ochsner Health (Ochsner) | 3 | — |
| Elite Physical Therapy, Inc. | 3 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open physical therapist assistant roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Physical Rehabilitation | 110 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 35 | — |
| Infection Control | 20 | — |
| Discharge Planning | 15 | — |
| Home Health Aide Work | 13 | — |
| Accessibility | 12 | — |
| Massage Therapy | 11 | — |
| Data Visualization | 8 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 8 | — |
| Data Science | 7 | — |
Where the work is
1% of these roles are remote.
- Remote1%2 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site90%121 roles
- Not stated9%12 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 135 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 85 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Physical Therapist Assistant (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.