Which pays more, Care Assistant or Therapist / Counselor?

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 Therapist / Counselor

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 3.2% apart. There is 1.7× more demand for Care Assistant. Care Assistant is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 8.0%. Listings for Care Assistant move faster — median age 69 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Care Assistant	Therapist / Counselor	Gap
Open postings	24,960	14,899	+10,061
Posted this week	573	424
Median salary	$97,000	$94,000	+$3k
25th percentile	$76.5k	$74.5k
75th percentile	$121k	$117k
Salary disclosed	6.9%	4.1%
Remote share	11.4%	3.4%	+8.0pp
Median age of posting	69d	85d
Open over 60 days	45.1%	33.8%
Visa sponsorship	4.8%	7.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Care Assistant

$44k$168k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Care Assistant

just posted69d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d 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%

Therapist / Counselor — technologies

PostgreSQL

72.0%

TypeScript

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Kubernetes

53.4%

Spark

47.2%

Azure

41.0%

JavaScript

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%

Therapist / Counselor — employers

Aperture Labs

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Meridian Software

8.0%

Fairmount Legal

7.2%

Beacon Robotics

6.5%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

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%.