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Physical Therapist Assistant Salary. In the US, the physical therapy assistant salary ranges from $35,826 per year up to $70,153 per year. For a beginner, the salary in this field is estimated at around $36,010 but it will gradually increase due to the work experience and other factors that will influence your income.
On a very basic level, for starting out physical therapy assistants, fresh out of their physical therapy assistant schools, each with less than a year of experience, the average physical therapy assistant salary is close to $18 an hour. That amounts to about $35k per year in salary, not including taxes. The average physical therapy assistant salary for someone who's stayed at the same job for a few years goes as high as $24 per hour if the physical therapy assistants in question remain for up to four years, and $26, if they stay for nine. Over a year, those hourly wages work out to about $50k and $55k, respectively.