Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Registered Respiratory Therapist: $86K median posted pay.
From 34 salary bands employers posted on 103 open registered respiratory therapist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Clinic | 43 | — |
| Veterans Health Administration | 15 | — |
| Banner Health | 11 | — |
| Advocate Health | 6 | — |
| Quality, Compassionate Care For All | 4 | — |
| Methodisthealth | 4 | — |
| Silver Cross | 3 | — |
| Massgeneralbrigham | 3 | — |
| Choa | 3 | — |
| Denverhealth | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open registered respiratory therapist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Respiratory Technology | 103 | — |
| Respiratory Therapy | 85 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 81 | — |
| Critical Care | 60 | — |
| Advanced Cardiac Life Support | 51 | — |
| Background Screening | 47 | — |
| Immunization | 43 | — |
| Group Facilitation | 41 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 41 | — |
| Emergency Nursing | 23 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site42%43 roles
- Not stated58%60 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 103 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 34 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Registered Respiratory Therapist (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.