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Ron Precht
Senior Manager, American Massage Therapy Association
Avg. Salary $75,043
Avg. Salary $59,228
Growth rate 17%
Growth rate 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.47%
Asian 11.44%
Black or African American 3.68%
Hispanic or Latino 7.44%
Unknown 3.74%
White 73.24%
Genderfemale 70.33%
male 29.67%
Age - 40American Indian and Alaska Native 3.00%
Asian 7.00%
Black or African American 14.00%
Hispanic or Latino 19.00%
White 57.00%
Genderfemale 47.00%
male 53.00%
Age - 40Stress level is high
7.1 - high
Complexity level is advanced
7 - challenging
Work life balance is good
6.4 - fair
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Skills Percentages Patients 14.66% Social Work 13.40% Crisis Intervention 5.97% Autism 5.77% ABA 5.33% Complete relevant lead therapist training and internships
Accountants spend an average of Less than 1 month on post-employment, on-the-job training. New lead therapists learn the skills and techniques required for their job and employer during this time. The chart below shows how long it takes to gain competency as a lead therapist based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and data from real lead therapist resumes.Research lead therapist duties and responsibilities
- Help manage meetings in IEP settings with school staff and other therapy providers.
- Help am individuals with autism learn to communicate and manage undesire behavior.
- Train line therapists on implementing treatment plans; using apply behavior analysis (ABA) techniques and procedures.
- Provide in-home behavior treatment program employing apply behavior analysis techniques working with children diagnose with autism.
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Average lead therapist salary
The average lead therapist salary in the United States is $75,043 per year or $36 per hour. Lead therapist salaries range between $45,000 and $124,000 per year.
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Helping people, utilizing your specialized training, schedule flexibility
Burnout, many in the healthcare system don't take you seriously despite your critical care experience, often in this field supervisors are not strong advocates for your field and bow to the administrators rather than enforce safety policies.
Helping make a difference in someone’s life.
Our field not offering compact license.
Watching a patient improve and sometimes come back for a visit that was once on the brink of death.
The red tape, the disconnect between nursing and respiratory.
Updated January 8, 2025
