Actively hiringCSU-9189780
Physical Therapist (PT)
$3,000 – $3,500per week
Albuquerque, NM
Therapy & Rehabilitation
ContractDay (8A-4:30P)13 Wks
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Physical therapy is one of the few clinical professions where a single license opens work in dozens of states without a new application, which makes it unusually portable. We staff physical therapist jobs in outpatient clinics, home health, hospitals and skilled nursing across the United States.
One license. Dozens of states.Find the setting that works for you.
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Where physical therapists work
Outpatient
Private clinics, orthopedic practices and sports medicine. Higher patient volume, mostly daytime hours, and the setting most PTs picture when they think about physical therapy jobs.
Home health
Treating in the patient's own environment, which changes the plan of care as much as the caseload. Territory size and drive time decide how the day actually goes.
Acute care and inpatient rehab
Hospitals and rehabilitation units. Shorter episodes, sicker patients, and far more coordination with nursing and medicine.
Skilled nursing
Long term care and subacute. Steady caseloads, productivity targets, and the setting where contract work is most consistently available.
The PT Compact and working in other states
The Physical Therapy Compact works differently from the nursing one, and the difference matters if you are weighing contract work.
A nurse with a multistate license is simply covered in other member states. A physical therapist buys a compact privilege for each state separately. Your home state license has to be active, unencumbered and issued by a member state, and then you apply through the PT Compact Commission for the state you want.
Around forty states are active members. Processing is typically a few days rather than the weeks or months a full license takes, though each state sets its own fee and its own jurisprudence requirement. Some states have joined the compact without switching it on yet, in which case you still apply there as normal.
It covers physical therapist assistants as well as physical therapists.
What experience contracts ask for
A facility will normally look for 1 to 3 years of practice in the setting it is hiring for. Two therapists with the same number of years often get submitted for entirely different contracts, because a clinic seeing twelve patients a day and a skilled nursing facility running to productivity targets want different things from the same license.
Coming from a different setting is not a barrier, but it needs flagging before a submission rather than at interview. Some facilities will take it, some will not, and a recruiter who knows in advance can put you in front of the ones that will.
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Look past the rate
What physical therapist roles pay
Two figures decide what a physical therapy contract is really worth: the rate itself, and how many units or visits you are expected to produce for it. A high hourly rate against an aggressive productivity target is not the better offer it appears to be.
Physical therapist pay explained, including productivity and per visit models.
Travel, contract and permanent
All three are open to physical therapists. Travel contracts in therapy tend to run alongside the compact privilege, because a privilege that processes in days rather than months is what makes a short assignment in another state practical at all.
Most therapists register with more than one of the companies for physical therapist staffing before they settle on one. If this is among your first jobs after licensure, it is worth asking each of them the same questions about caseload, productivity and cancellation before you sign.
Physical therapist assistants
PTAs hold a separate license with a separate scope, and the compact covers them on the same basis.
Choose your next location
Physical therapist jobs by state
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a new license for each state?
Not if your home state and the state you want to work in are both PT Compact members. You buy a compact privilege for that state instead, which usually processes in days. If either state is outside the compact, you apply for a full license as normal.
Does the PT Compact cover physical therapist assistants?
Yes. PTAs use the same compact privilege system as physical therapists, with the same requirement that the home state license is active and unencumbered.
How much experience do physical therapist contracts ask for?
Usually 1 to 3 years in the setting. Documentation systems, productivity expectations and evaluation formats differ enough between settings that facilities treat them as separate experience.
Is home health paid differently from clinic work?
Usually. Most home health work is priced per visit, so your earnings track how tight the territory is and how much of the day goes on driving. A dense urban caseload and a rural one can pay the same per visit and land very differently at the end of the week.
Can you help with the compact privilege application?
Yes. We will tell you whether the states you want are active members, what each one charges, and whether a jurisprudence exam applies before you commit to a start date.
Talk to a therapy recruiter
Bring your license, the settings you have worked in, and whether you hold a compact privilege already.
Contracts, housing and first assignments are covered on our travel nursing page. Rates, productivity models and per visit pay are on our physical therapist pay page.