Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Respiratory Therapist: $86K median posted pay.
From 76 salary bands employers posted on 203 open respiratory therapist roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 2 | — (1 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 1 | — (1 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advocate Health | 26 | — |
| Prisma Health | 20 | — |
| Highmark Health | 19 | — |
| luminishealth | 17 | — |
| Ochsner Health (Ochsner) | 14 | — |
| Ummh | 11 | — |
| NCH | 10 | — |
| Vcuhealth | 10 | — |
| Massgeneralbrigham | 8 | — |
| Sluhn (SLUHN) | 6 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open respiratory therapist roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Respiratory Technology | 203 | — |
| Respiratory Therapy | 185 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 173 | — |
| Critical Care | 78 | — |
| Advanced Cardiac Life Support | 76 | — |
| Pediatric Care | 47 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 45 | — |
| HIPAA Compliance | 37 | — |
| Infection Control | 28 | — |
| Neonatal Care | 27 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid1%3 roles
- On site73%148 roles
- Not stated26%52 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 203 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 76 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior 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.