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I became a Professor Emeritus after serving 29 years as a recreational therapy faculty member at Indiana University. I'm a long-time Hoosier, having grown up in Hanover, Indiana. My RT practitioner work was in psych/mental health. After completing my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, my first faculty position was at the University of North Texas. RT has been a wonderful profession for me as I have had the opportunity to serve as an author and national leader.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Salaries of CTRSs, MTs, OTs

The July 2010 issue of Health-Care Careers e-Letter provides an extensive listing of salaries of health-care professionals.

The average salary for CTRSs was listed at $46,500. For music therapists the average was almost the same, at $46,417. It was the occupational therapists who made the highest salaries. The average salary of an OT was $66,400.

And we wonder why students leave our profession to go into OT? The reason seems clear to me!

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Where are their numbers coming from? Even though the average is lower than OT, it's almost $8,000 higher than the average salary reported in the 2004 NCTRC survey ($38,956). I get inflation but it's only been 6 yrs and we're in a recession. Just curious.

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