Which pays more, Physician 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

Physician vs Therapist / Counselor

Physician pays more: a median of $223,500 against $94,000. There is 2.7× more demand for Physician. Physician is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 7.6%. Listings for Physician move faster — median age 43 days against 85.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Physician	Therapist / Counselor	Gap
Open postings	39,626	14,899	+24,727
Posted this week	1,356	424
Median salary	$223,500	$94,000	+$130k
25th percentile	$177k	$74.5k
75th percentile	$277k	$117k
Salary disclosed	8.2%	4.1%
Remote share	11.0%	3.4%	+7.6pp
Median age of posting	43d	85d
Open over 60 days	36.4%	33.8%
Visa sponsorship	12.8%	7.8%

Pay

Pay distribution

Physician

$101k$387k

Therapist / Counselor

$42k$163k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Physician

just posted43d median90d+

Therapist / Counselor

just posted85d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Physician — technologies

72.0%

Terraform

65.8%

TypeScript

59.6%

JavaScript

53.4%

Docker

47.2%

HubSpot

41.0%

Java

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%

Physician — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Brightline Retail

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Halcyon Energy

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Meridian Software

5.8%

Rivergate Media

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%.