Which pays more, Care Assistant or Physical Therapist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Care Assistant vs Physical Therapist

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. There is 1.6× more demand for Physical Therapist.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Care Assistant	Physical Therapist	Gap
Open postings	24,960	40,356	-15,396
Posted this week	573	3,573
Median salary	$97,000	$96,500	+$500
25th percentile	$76.5k	$76k
75th percentile	$121k	$120k
Salary disclosed	6.9%	8.5%
Remote share	11.4%	13.0%	-1.6pp
Median age of posting	69d	70d
Open over 60 days	45.1%	44.7%
Visa sponsorship	4.8%	23.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Care Assistant

$44k$168k

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Care Assistant

just posted69d median90d+

Physical Therapist

just posted70d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Care Assistant — technologies

Python

72.0%

Java

65.8%

Docker

59.6%

SQL

53.4%

Azure

47.2%

Tableau

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

Physical Therapist — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

Java

47.2%

dbt

41.0%

Kubernetes

34.8%

Care Assistant — employers

Vantage Logistics

9.4%

Cobalt Financial

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Ironbark Manufacturing

7.2%

Solstice Biotech

6.5%

Rivergate Media

5.8%

Meridian Software

5.1%

Physical Therapist — employers

Halcyon Energy

9.4%

Lakeshore Hospitality

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Vantage Logistics

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Solstice Biotech

5.8%

Northwind Systems

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Healthcare comparisons

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.