Recreational Therapy Providers Salaries, Locations, and Schools

Employment Overview

If you add up all the recreational therapy providers in the country you get a total of about 25,000. There has been a very low unemployment rate for workers. An unfortunate 2% of employees were without jobs in 2006.

Flexibility

Government statistics report that 16% of recreational therapy providers are employed part-time.

Education

A bachelor's degree is often necessary for working in the field. About 77% of employees have earned a degree. Some college, below a 4-year degree, is sufficient for 14% of recreational therapy providers.

Local Outlook

Workers appear most common in Reading (Pennsylvania), Utica (New York), and Peoria (Illinois), and least common in Fort Worth (Texas), Dallas (Texas), and Sacramento (California). San Jose (California), Brockton (Massachusetts), and San Francisco (California) offer the highest pay. Lancaster (Pennsylvania), Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), and Jefferson City (Missouri) offer the lowest salaries.

Detailed local employment conditions for Recreational Therapy Providers in metro areas across the US are shown in the table below.

Local Jobs Info for Recreational Therapy Providers

Employment info for Recreational Therapy Providers, by metropolitan area (for 2006). A Market Strength rating of 1.0 means the city (and surroundings) has an average number of workers in the occupation for to its population. A higher number indicates relatively more workers for the occupation in that location.

State	City and Surroundings	Market Strength	Workers	Median Wage
Alabama	Birmingham	1.14	80	$36,000
Arizona	Phoenix	0.69	180	$36,000
Arizona	Tucson	0.59	30	$35,000
Arkansas	Little Rock	1.57	70	$40,000
California	Los Angeles	0.73	420	$48,000
California	Oakland	1	140	$51,000
California	Riverside	0.44	80	$35,000
California	Sacramento	0.32	40	$43,000
California	San Diego	0.44	80	$44,000
California	San Francisco	0.6	80	$53,000
California	San Jose	0.72	90	$57,000
California	Santa Ana	0.52	110	$43,000
California	Santa Rosa	3.56	90	$41,000
California	Stockton	1.08	30	$46,000
Colorado	Denver	0.41	70	$40,000
Connecticut	Bridgeport	2.7	160	$41,000
Connecticut	Danbury	3.49	30	$39,000
Connecticut	Hartford	3.74	290	$49,000
Connecticut	New Haven	3.24	120	$42,000
Connecticut	Norwich	3.83	60	$45,000
Connecticut	Waterbury	3.48	30	$42,000
Delaware	Wilmington	1.81	80	$40,000
District of Columbia	Washington	0.88	280	$46,000
Florida	Fort Lauderdale	0.78	80	$37,000
Florida	Miami	0.73	100	$50,000
Florida	Sarasota	1.06	40	$46,000
Florida	Tampa	0.87	150	$38,000
Florida	West Palm Beach	0.52	40	$42,000
Georgia	Atlanta	0.57	190	$35,000
Georgia	Savannah	3.03	60	$38,000
Hawaii	Honolulu	0.87	50	$49,000
Idaho	Boise	2.52	90	$37,000
Illinois	Chicago	1.89	1,000	$36,000
Illinois	Peoria	5.1	110	$33,000
Illinois	Rockford	1.54	30	$33,000
Indiana	Gary	0.8	30	$30,000
Indiana	Indianapolis	0.5	60	$40,000
Iowa	Cedar Rapids	2.89	50	$33,000
Iowa	Davenport	1.7	40	$37,000
Iowa	Des Moines	1.16	50	$43,000
Kansas	Topeka	2.92	40	$39,000
Kansas	Wichita	0.99	40	$33,000
Kentucky	Louisville	0.6	50	$36,000
Louisiana	Baton Rouge	2.08	100	$33,000
Louisiana	Monroe	4.22	40	$44,000
Louisiana	New Orleans	1.33	90	$31,000
Louisiana	Shreveport	2.28	50	$42,000
Maine	Portland	1.55	40	$30,000
Maryland	Baltimore	2.15	380	$35,000
Maryland	Bethesda	1.18	90	$40,000
Massachusetts	Boston	1.88	440	$41,000
Massachusetts	Brockton	3.66	40	$48,000
Massachusetts	Lynn	3.95	50	$32,000
Massachusetts	Springfield	3.22	130	$36,000
Massachusetts	Worcester	1.79	60	$37,000
Michigan	Ann Arbor	3.13	70	$42,000
Michigan	Detroit	0.99	100	$45,000
Michigan	Flint	2.16	40	$40,000
Michigan	Grand Rapids	1.55	80	$43,000
Michigan	Kalamazoo	2.19	40	$38,000
Michigan	Warren	0.62	100	$41,000
Minnesota	Minneapolis	1.49	370	$40,000
Mississippi	Gulfport	2.26	30	$42,000
Mississippi	Jackson	5.08	170	$33,000
Missouri	Columbia	2.97	30	$30,000
Missouri	Jefferson City	4.68	40	$25,000
Missouri	Kansas City	1.65	230	$37,000
Missouri	St Louis	1.72	320	$33,000
Nebraska	Lincoln	2.93	60	$32,000
Nebraska	Omaha	3.08	190	$32,000
Nevada	Las Vegas	0.62	80	$32,000
New Jersey	Camden	1.24	90	$44,000
New Jersey	Newark	1.3	180	$41,000
New York	Albany	1.53	90	$40,000
New York	Buffalo	1.93	140	$41,000
New York	Nassau	2.23	380	$45,000
New York	New York	1.97	1,370	$46,000
New York	Poughkeepsie	2.51	80	$50,000
New York	Rochester	2.5	170	$41,000
New York	Syracuse	1.97	80	$39,000
New York	Utica	5.54	90	$45,000
North Carolina	Charlotte	0.84	100	$36,000
North Carolina	Durham	1.42	50	$41,000
North Carolina	Winston Salem	1.4	40	$39,000
North Dakota	Fargo	2.74	40	$37,000
Ohio	Akron	1.1	50	$36,000
Ohio	Cincinnati	0.71	100	$39,000
Ohio	Cleveland	1.09	160	$42,000
Ohio	Columbus	1.27	160	$40,000
Ohio	Dayton	1.32	70	$42,000
Ohio	Toledo	1.38	60	$36,000
Ohio	Youngstown	1.89	60	$34,000
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	1.69	130	$36,000
Oklahoma	Tulsa	1.05	60	$38,000
Oregon	Portland	0.42	60	$46,000
Oregon	Salem	2.08	40	$41,000
Pennsylvania	Allentown	1.79	80	$43,000
Pennsylvania	Erie	1.8	30	$32,000
Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	1.75	70	$28,000
Pennsylvania	Lancaster	2.59	80	$29,000
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1.92	490	$40,000
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	1.15	180	$41,000
Pennsylvania	Reading	5.62	120	$38,000
Pennsylvania	Scranton	2.89	100	$39,000
Pennsylvania	York	2.14	50	$34,000
Rhode Island	Providence	1.01	80	$41,000
South Carolina	Charleston	0.78	30	$35,000
South Carolina	Columbia	2.37	110	$28,000
South Carolina	Greenville	0.73	30	$33,000
Tennessee	Knoxville	1.58	70	$37,000
Tennessee	Memphis	0.82	70	$35,000
Tennessee	Nashville	0.77	80	$35,000
Texas	Austin	0.39	40	$34,000
Texas	Dallas	0.35	100	$41,000
Texas	Fort Worth	0.35	40	$36,000
Texas	Houston	0.46	160	$36,000
Texas	San Antonio	0.54	60	$39,000
Utah	Provo	3.64	80	$35,000
Utah	Salt Lake City	1.57	130	$35,000
Virginia	Richmond	3.27	270	$35,000
Virginia	Virginia Beach	0.68	70	$40,000
Washington	Seattle	0.36	70	$54,000
Washington	Spokane	1.09	30	$46,000
Washington	Tacoma	1.11	40	$50,000
West Virginia	Huntington	2.77	40	$37,000
Wisconsin	La Crosse	4.59	40	$37,000
Wisconsin	Madison	1.14	50	$40,000
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	1.7	200	$39,000