Before you repost a physical therapist job in Las Vegas
Las Vegas pays physical therapists a median of $116,480. The lower quarter, $97,790, is under the national median.
Las Vegas leadership heard the median was above the country and approved the physical therapist req. A quarter of therapists in the metro earn less than the national median. "We're above the country" is true of the middle. It is not true of the floor, and the floor is where a vague posting quietly lands.
The median is $116,480. The national median is $102,760. The lower quarter is $97,790. The upper quarter is $136,630. That spread is the repost. A new grad in a snug outpatient clinic and a therapist carrying a heavy caseload are not the same offer, and the national figure sits in between the lower quarter and the median. Clear it, and you may still be under the people you meant to hire.
OEWS counts 1,530 physical therapists in the metro. The share is a bit thin, roughly a fifth fewer than a typical metro. Not empty. Not a crowd you can lowball because the median story tested well in a meeting.
The work is evaluation and treatment, and the setting changes the day. Outpatient, hospital, and nursing facility are different bodies and different wages inside this same band. The ad has to say which. Saving the setting for the phone screen collects therapists who will leave when they hear it.
Knoxville doesn't soften the Las Vegas floor
Knoxville's median is $96,110, with 590 physical therapists. That market sits under the national figure entirely. It's a reminder that this license doesn't have one American wage. It is not a number to blend with Las Vegas until both clinics look moderate. If you hire in both, you have two reqs. The Las Vegas one still has to face $97,790 before anyone celebrates $116,480.
Productivity rules belong in that same sentence. A caseload the clinic treats as normal can be the upper quarter to a therapist who has a choice, and a mentoring clinic can honestly pay the lower quarter if the day matches. What you can't do is describe the heavy day and price the floor, then act surprised when experienced people pass. The thin share gives them somewhere else in town.
Before the repost
Name the setting in the title, not in paragraph four. Circle the lower quarter if you are hiring a newer therapist and will mentor. Circle the median for a working caseload in that setting. Circle the upper quarter if the productivity or the specialty is real. Then make the posted range survive the circle. A sign-on on a lower-quarter base doesn't turn the job into the upper quarter.
Cut the screen to the license and the setting. A wishlist of certifications you meant as preferred will empty a thin share faster than another job board will fill it. Preferred is a word for the conversation, not for the gate.
Illustrative story
The first ad said physical therapist and a range that cleared the national median by a little. It didn't say nursing facility. Candidates who wanted outpatient got to the call, heard the building, and ended it. The debrief said therapists were scarce. The count said 1,530, and the share said somewhat thin, which is not the same as a failed market.
They retitled the req with the setting, moved the base to the median because the caseload was a full one, and stopped screening outpatient therapists by accident. The list got shorter. The visits got serious. Las Vegas hadn't produced new therapists. The posting had stopped auditioning the wrong ones.
Name the setting and the quarter in the same sentence.
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