Which pays more, Physical Therapist 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

Physical Therapist vs Therapist / Counselor

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit within 2.7% apart. There is 2.7× more demand for Physical Therapist. Physical Therapist is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 9.6%. Listings for Physical Therapist move faster — median age 70 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Physical Therapist	Therapist / Counselor	Gap
Open postings	40,356	14,899	+25,457
Posted this week	3,573	424
Median salary	$96,500	$94,000	+$2.5k
25th percentile	$76k	$74.5k
75th percentile	$120k	$117k
Salary disclosed	8.5%	4.1%
Remote share	13.0%	3.4%	+9.6pp
Median age of posting	70d	85d
Open over 60 days	44.7%	33.8%
Visa sponsorship	23.7%	7.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Physical Therapist

$43k$167k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Physical Therapist

just posted70d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Physical Therapist — technologies

Spark

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Terraform

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

Java

47.2%

dbt

41.0%

Kubernetes

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%

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%

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%.