Massage Therapy Salaries and Benefits
Massage Therapist Salaries vary greatly by region, place
of work and employers and whether you are a regular employee, a sub-contractor,
a part time employee.
The employer can charge between $55 -$100 and more for a
massage (and charge extra for additional services.) What they actually pay
an employee is a very small percentage of that.
An ideal job would consist of the following:
- $25.00 per hour as a full employee.
- $25-$45 per hour if you are a sub-contractor as you
have to pay your own taxes.
- 25 hours maximum of actual hands on massage or less.
- 15 minute increments between appointments
- Consistent hours.
- Consistent days off.
- light phone duty, filing duty or other minor cleaning
duties if no clients.
- Health insurance completely paid for and option to
add family members for a fee.
- Incentives for booking repeat customers
- Vacation pay no less than 2 weeks a year preferably 4
weeks per year (1 per quarter) to help avoid burnout and injuries.
- Retirement funding of some sort.
In my opinion, if you are getting less than this you are
being taken advantage of and your risk for burnout and injury will increase
accordingly. It isn't worth it to work for less no matter how desperate
you are. Working to change your beliefs about money and your own value can
help you in getting the job of your desires.
ABMP
Media Center- Massage Profession Metrics - Most accurate information
regarding the profession.
"Nearly half of the respondents report
supplementing their income with another job (45.2 percent), a job at which they
spend an average of 25 hours per week." Total earnings average
$32,506
U.S.
Department of Labor Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Occupational Outlook Handbook
"Median hourly earnings of massage therapists, including gratuities earned, were
$15.36 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $9.78 and $23.82. The
lowest 10 percent earned less than $7.16, and the highest 10 percent earned more
than $32.21. Generally, massage therapists earn 15 to 20 percent of their income
as gratuities. For those who work in a hospital or other clinical setting,
however, tipping is not common."
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