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Physical Therapist Aides · SOC 31-2022

Physical Therapist Aides Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$34,780
Median hourly wage$16.72

Physical Therapist Aides in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $34,780 per year ($16.72 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $28,980 at the 10th percentile to $42,050 at the 90th. BLS estimates 700 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Physical Therapist Aides in the Washington metro area earn more than $34,780 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $31,200 and $38,820.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$28,980$31,200$34,780$38,820$42,050
Hourly$13.93$15.00$16.72$18.66$20.22

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $34,780
  • District of Columbiastate (DC)
    $38,950
  • United Statesnational
    $35,240

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −11% vs District of Columbia overall and −1% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$20,140$30,023$39,907$49,790Johnson City, TN — $20,140Baton Rouge, LA — $21,910Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $22,120Lafayette, LA — $22,150Monroe, LA — $22,170Laredo, TX — $22,790Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $23,010McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $23,040Wichita, KS — $23,120Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $23,750Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $24,590Kansas City, MO-KS — $25,280El Paso, TX — $25,300Dothan, AL — $25,360Mobile, AL — $25,690New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $26,410College Station-Bryan, TX — $26,420Oklahoma City, OK — $26,430Huntsville, AL — $26,440Birmingham, AL — $26,530Twin Falls, ID — $26,740Montgomery, AL — $26,800Odessa, TX — $26,870Amarillo, TX — $26,930Flint, MI — $27,100Savannah, GA — $27,220Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $27,370Traverse City, MI — $27,370Lubbock, TX — $27,620Iowa City, IA — $27,700Tulsa, OK — $27,870Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $27,920Ogden, UT — $27,920Lincoln, NE — $28,080Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $28,200San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $28,410Boise City, ID — $28,430Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $28,520Pocatello, ID — $28,520Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $28,570Chattanooga, TN-GA — $28,610Wichita Falls, TX — $28,690Logan, UT-ID — $28,730Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $28,850Jackson, MS — $28,980Corpus Christi, TX — $29,080Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $29,120Evansville, IN — $29,120Columbia, MO — $29,130St. George, UT — $29,240St. Louis, MO-IL — $29,250Coeur d'Alene, ID — $29,430Waco, TX — $29,660Casper, WY — $29,730Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $29,730Las Cruces, NM — $29,800Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $29,910Fort Wayne, IN — $29,930Killeen-Temple, TX — $29,970Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $30,040Knoxville, TN — $30,200Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $30,370Rome, GA — $30,480Reno, NV — $30,560Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $30,590Cheyenne, WY — $30,700Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $30,900Omaha, NE-IA — $31,000Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $31,200Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $31,200Wilmington, NC — $31,510Colorado Springs, CO — $31,520Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $31,730Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $31,840Tuscaloosa, AL — $31,900Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $31,980Tallahassee, FL — $32,050Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $32,130Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $32,220Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $32,240Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $32,240Syracuse, NY — $32,240Texarkana, TX-AR — $32,770Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $32,780Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $33,060Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $33,180Idaho Falls, ID — $33,280Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $33,570Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $33,580Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $33,600Ann Arbor, MI — $33,790Urban Honolulu, HI — $33,810Charlottesville, VA — $33,850Richmond, VA — $33,860Dover, DE — $33,920Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $34,110Eugene-Springfield, OR — $34,160Fayetteville, NC — $34,200Corvallis, OR — $34,230Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $34,270Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $34,280Port St. Lucie, FL — $34,320Greensboro-High Point, NC — $34,530Kenosha, WI — $34,650Springfield, MA — $34,700Springfield, MO — $34,720Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $34,760Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $34,780Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $34,790Medford, OR — $34,870Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $35,010Redding, CA — $35,010Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $35,180Rochester, NY — $35,200Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $35,220New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $35,320Raleigh-Cary, NC — $35,370Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $35,410Asheville, NC — $35,420Salem, OR — $35,430Lexington-Fayette, KY — $35,490Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $35,570Bend, OR — $35,730Columbia, SC — $35,740Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $35,770Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $35,780New Haven, CT — $35,830Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $35,870Merced, CA — $35,870San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $35,880Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $35,920Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $36,070Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $36,080Jacksonville, FL — $36,110North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $36,190Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $36,200Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $36,230Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $36,240Stockton-Lodi, CA — $36,380Tucson, AZ — $36,550Modesto, CA — $36,640Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $36,730Akron, OH — $36,750Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $36,790Gainesville, FL — $36,830Midland, TX — $37,020Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $37,130Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $37,250Vallejo, CA — $37,270Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $37,280Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $37,440Boulder, CO — $37,440Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $37,580Winston-Salem, NC — $37,610Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $37,620Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $37,630Fargo, ND-MN — $37,680Visalia, CA — $37,700Portland-South Portland, ME — $37,720San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $37,850Cleveland, OH — $38,030Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $38,050Chico, CA — $38,230Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $38,440Worcester, MA — $38,710Pittsburgh, PA — $38,740Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $38,810Salinas, CA — $38,810Anchorage, AK — $38,930Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $38,980Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $39,210Madison, WI — $39,420Columbus, OH — $39,990Toledo, OH — $40,160Fresno, CA — $40,350Manchester-Nashua, NH — $40,460Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $42,230Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $42,520San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $43,300San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $44,440Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $46,460Abilene, TX — $49,790

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Washington metro area has the 75th-highest published median for this occupation among the 182 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Home Health and Personal Care Aides$38,530Nursing Assistants$45,730Medical Assistants$46,640Dental Assistants$47,540Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers$45,320Phlebotomists$49,030

Highest-paying metro areas for physical therapist aidess · Highest-paying occupations in Washington Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.