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A look at what’s hiring in the non-clinical job market for rehab clinicians, and what the data means for your next move.
If you’re a physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, or assistant trying to figure out where the non-clinical opportunities are right now, you’re in the right place. Each quarter, we comb through what’s coming across our job board to bring you a clear-eyed look at who’s hiring, what they’re hiring for, and where you might fit in.
One quick note before we get into the numbers. This data reflects what’s posted on The Non-Clinical Job Board, not the entire non-clinical job market. Think of it as a curated window into employer demand for rehab folks, designed to help you focus your search on vetted opportunities.
New this quarter: most charts below include an All roles / Starter / Experienced toggle, so you can filter each cut to wherever you are in your transition.
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Job volume: the biggest quarter yet
Total Jobs by Quarter
Non-clinical jobs sourced by quarter — Q1 & Q2 shown year over year; Q3–Q4 2025 shown solo until their 2026 counterparts land
We posted 12,464 non-clinical jobs in Q2 2026. That’s more than double Q1’s 5,372, and over nine times what we posted in Q2 2025.
This is not a claim that the broader non-clinical job market doubled. The growth comes from the investment we’ve been making in our sourcing technology, which has driven quarter-over-quarter growth on the board for six quarters running. Better tech means we can surface more roles faster, while improving quality.
That aside, here’s what we can say: anecdotally, we have not seen non-clinical demand for rehab professionals shrinking, even as the broader job market has been challenging across most sectors. Healthcare continues to drive the most consistent employment growth in the U.S. economy. And the “picks-and-shovels” companies (the medical device manufacturers, health tech firms, payers, and post-acute care systems that supply the tools, products, and services clinicians depend on) are still hiring people who deeply understand patient care.
Live Jobs on the Board
Open non-clinical listings live on the board, weekly snapshots
New Jobs Added Each Week
Fresh listings added each week by track, through the last full week of the quarter.
The pace built all quarter. Live listings on the board quadrupled, from about 1,600 in early April to more than 6,300 by the end of June. By the last full week of the quarter, we were adding roughly 1,900 fresh jobs every week. Experienced roles drove a growing share of those additions as the quarter went on. More on that shift below.
Your clinical background remains valuable to a wide range of employers, and the rest of this report shows where.
Job postings are moving fast: why speed matters
Job Survival Curve
Percent of Q2 postings still live, by days since they appeared.
The typical posting lasted just 22 days. Starter roles moved a little faster (21-day median) than experienced ones (23 days), but neither leaves much time to get application-ready after the fact.
Gone Within Two Weeks
Modeled from the survival curve: how many postings are gone inside 14 days.
The stat we flagged last quarter mostly held up: 40% of the jobs we posted in Q2 were gone within two weeks. In Q1 that was 45%.
For most rehab professionals making a non-clinical transition, that’s a tight window. Writing a resume from scratch, figuring out the right way to position your clinical background, and tailoring it for each application all take time. The key to a successful search is being ready ahead of time.
This is exactly why we created Non-Clinical 101.
Our flagship course is designed to help you become application-ready before the perfect role appears, so when it does, you can move on it without the panic. That includes:
- Choosing your target career path(s) and taking on initiatives that signal to hiring managers you’re invested
- Resume templates built to pass applicant tracking systems (ATS), for all 27 non-clinical career paths in the course
- A CV-first approach that will allow you to customize your resume for a new application in under 30 minutes
On top of that, Non-Clinical 101 students and Go Non-Clinical community members get access to new job postings two full weeks before our public newsletter list does. When four in 10 jobs expire within two weeks, that head start is the difference between applying and missing out.
Employment type: mostly full-time, with some flexibility
Jobs by Employment Type
Employment type mix in the selected view.
Full-time roles dominated Q2 at about 96% of postings, which is what we’d expect from the corporate, post-acute, and managed care employers driving non-clinical hiring.
If flexibility is part of your strategy, though, don’t skip this chart’s Starter view. PRN, per-diem, contract, part-time, and temporary options showed up on about 6% of postings overall, but in starter roles that flexible slice roughly doubles to 12%. For rehab pros looking to bridge into non-clinical work while still doing some patient care (a smart play for a lot of folks), those options are concentrated right where you’d want them.
Where the non-clinical work actually happens
Jobs by Work Arrangement
On-site, remote, field, and blended arrangement mix in the selected view.
The work setting breakdown might be the single most useful chart in this report for setting realistic expectations.
On-site roles led the quarter at about 38% of postings, the traditional go-to-the-same-building type of work. Field-heavy arrangements (territory sales reps, clinical specialists who travel to hospital accounts, and clinical liaisons driving referrals to post-acute facilities) added another 16% or so.
If you came into your non-clinical search picturing a fully remote job, you should know: about three-quarters of the postings we found involve being somewhere in person at least part of the time. For a lot of rehab pros, that ends up being a positive instead of a downside. Field and hybrid roles get you out of the four walls of the clinic without trapping you behind a desk all day.
Remote work is available too, and it comes in several configurations: fully remote, hybrid, and field roles with a remote base. Add them all up, and roughly 41% of Q2 postings included some remote component.
Fully remote alone made up about 21% of the total, and remote roles are far more competitive than in-person ones. The applicant pool is bigger because geography stops being a filter. If remote is your top priority, we strongly recommend using professional help to gain an edge. The difference between “applying to remote jobs” and “actually landing one” usually comes down to strategy, preparation, and positioning.
Starter and experienced roles: both grew significantly
Starter vs. Experienced Roles
How the 12,464 Q2 postings split by experience level.
The mix between starter jobs and experienced roles kept shifting this quarter. Since we added experienced jobs to The Non-Clinical Job Board in Q3 last year, they’ve grown to 58% of all postings. This is the first quarter they’ve outnumbered starter roles.
But the more important story is in the absolute numbers: both categories set new highs. Starter postings grew about 70% from Q1 to Q2. Experienced postings roughly tripled.
Whether you’re making your first move out of patient care or planning your second (or third) non-clinical step up, there are more opportunities on our board for you than ever before.
Salary insights: what non-clinical jobs pay
One of the most common worries we hear from rehab pros considering a non-clinical move is: “Will I have to take a pay cut?” Here’s what the Q2 data says.
Pay by Tier: Starter vs. Experienced
Posted annual salary (midpoint of range). Salaried positions only — hourly and commission-based pay excluded. Starter n=1,312, experienced n=3,843.
A quick note on methodology
About 58% of Q2 job postings disclosed some kind of pay figure, whether a salary, an hourly rate, or a commission structure. The numbers below narrow in on the cleanest slice of that group: postings with a stated annual salary, 5,155 of them, split into 1,312 starter roles and 3,843 experienced ones. A few things shaped our approach:
- Employers often post broad ranges as a hiring strategy, so we calculated the midpoint of each job’s posted range, then averaged the midpoints. This produces, we hope, the most representative data point for the average employee in the average job.
- We left out hourly-paid and commission-based postings. Annualizing an hourly wage or guessing at commission potential produces a shakier number than a role with a stated salary.
Treat this as directional, just like the rest of the report. It’s a useful gut check on what’s realistic, not a guarantee for any individual offer.
Salaries for non-clinical starter jobs
For roles tagged as appropriate for someone making their first non-clinical move:
- Median pay: $78,264 (half the jobs pay at least this)
- Top 25% of postings: $95,172 or more
- Top 10% of postings: $114,950 or more
- The bottom quartile came in at $64,464 or less
A few things stand out. Six-figure compensation is realistically on the table for the strongest starter roles. The typical starter job lands near $78K, which is competitive with what a lot of rehab clinicians currently earn, especially once you factor in benefits and perks.
Salaries for jobs requiring previous non-clinical experience
For roles tagged as appropriate for someone making their second, third, or later non-clinical step:
- Median pay: $116,760 (again, half the jobs pay at least this)
- Top 25% of postings: $156,926 or more
- Top 10% of postings: $198,000 or more
- The bottom quartile came in at $92,072 or less
For the second quarter running, that’s roughly a $38K jump in median pay between starter and experienced segments. Your first non-clinical job is rarely your last, and compensation grows meaningfully as you build experience in your chosen path. The top 10% number ($198K+) tells you what’s possible at the higher end.
How to use these numbers
If you’re earlier in your transition, focus on landing a starter role with a fair midpoint and a clear path into the experienced tier. If you’re already in the non-clinical world, treat the experienced numbers as your benchmark for what your next move should aim for.
Top non-clinical career paths in Q2 2026
Top Non-Clinical Career Paths
The career path data tells a different story than last quarter. The biggest category on the board is now operations and leadership, not sales.
Administration/Management/Operations took the top spot with roughly a quarter of all Q2 postings. Think Director of Rehabilitation, Facility Administrator, Practice Manager, and the operational leadership layer of post-acute care. If you’ve ever run a caseload, a schedule, and a team of aides at the same time, you already have a head start here.
Sales & Business Development came in second at about 12%, and the sales engine doesn’t end there. Clinical and Rehab Liaison roles are also sales-flavored, but they’re mostly from post-acute care companies, working to drive admissions and referrals. Physician Liaison and Admissions Coordinator titles fall under this same umbrella, so include those in your search if this path is on your list.
Beyond the sales engine, the data shows strength in:
- Case Management and Care Coordination, patient-navigation roles where rehab pros put clinical knowledge to work helping patients move through complex healthcare systems. Beyond Case Manager and Care Coordinator, expand your search to include Clinical Navigator, Managed Care Coordinator, and Patient Assessment titles. Flip the career path chart to its Starter view and this category jumps to second place.
- Project, Product, & Program Management, which spans Project Manager, Product Manager, Program Manager, Project Coordinator, and Product Owner titles. Worth knowing because Product Manager titles showed up among the highest-paying experienced roles in this report.
- Research, clinical research coordination and trial-support roles where a rehab background in structured protocols and careful documentation translates directly. Beyond Clinical Research Coordinator and Clinical Research Associate, expand your search to include Research Assistant, Clinical Research Assistant, and Clinical Trial Manager titles. This is the first quarter Research has cracked our top ten career paths.
- Data Analytics, roles that turn healthcare data into decisions, drawing on the same pattern-recognition skills clinicians use every day at the bedside. Beyond Data Analyst and Senior Data Analyst, expand your search to include Business Analyst, Business Intelligence Analyst, and Clinical Data Analyst titles. It jumped from ninth place to sixth this quarter, and the expanded company searches we added to our sourcing likely explain both that climb and Research’s debut above.
Top non-clinical job titles in Q2 2026
Top Non-Clinical Job Titles
The individual job titles posted most often this quarter reinforce the same patterns we just walked through.
The top of the list is the patient navigation cluster: Clinical Liaison, Case Manager, Clinical Navigator, and Care Coordinator all landed in the top ten. They share a focus on helping patients move through healthcare systems, with different flavors. Case Managers and Care Coordinators lean toward logistics and resource coordination across the care continuum, while Clinical Navigators are usually more patient-facing and advocacy-oriented, often based in hospital systems and specialty service lines like oncology. If one of these titles speaks to you, the others are worth a look as well.
Two more patterns worth noting. Leadership titles are hiring: Director of Rehabilitation and Facility Administrator both cracked the top ten, and Facility Administrator also made our highest-paying starter list. And sales titles cluster just behind the leaders: Territory Manager, Account Executive, and Medical Device Sales Representative all made the top twelve, alongside Assistive Technology Professional (a hybrid sales/clinical-evaluator role at companies like Numotion and Tobii Dynavox). Flip the chart to the Experienced view and Account Executive takes the top spot.
Top companies hiring non-clinical rehab pros
Top Companies Hiring
Employers with the most non-clinical postings.
Once you see the company list, the career path data clicks fully into place.
The top five hiring companies are managed care and post-acute names: Humana, DaVita Kidney Care, Encompass Health, Molina Healthcare, and PAM Health. They map directly to the operations, patient-navigation, and liaison roles we just walked through.
A few other names worth flagging:
- Humana took the top spot overall. Their non-clinical hiring runs deep, with volume in Case Manager, Provider Contracting, Utilization Management, and Encounter Data Management roles. Humana also leads the remote category.
- Encompass Health, PAM Health, and Lifepoint Health represent the post-acute care world, hiring across multiple titles in the patient-navigation and post-acute referral space: think Clinical Liaison, Case Manager, Admissions Coordinator, and Clinical Navigator.
- Numotion, one of our hiring partners, sits in the assistive technology space, where rehab professionals (including assistants!) bring expertise that’s hard to replace.
- Gainwell Technologies may be a new name to you: they build the technology behind Medicaid and other public health programs, and they hired steadily all quarter, mostly for experienced, remote-friendly roles.
If you’re drawn to population health or value-based care, watch the managed care names. If you want to put your clinical expertise to work in product evaluation or device support, watch the medical device and assistive tech names.
Top career paths for remote non-clinical jobs
Top Remote Career Paths
Share of fully-remote roles in the selected view. Excludes unclassified paths.
Remote work is what rehab pros ask us about most, so it gets its own section.
The remote breakdown by career path looks a bit like the overall breakdown, with notable exceptions: Compliance & QAPI, Data Analytics, Clinical/Health Informatics, and Project, Product, & Program Management all show up with disproportionately high remote share relative to their overall volume on our board.
Those career paths are more remote-friendly than most, which makes intuitive sense. Much of the work in compliance, informatics, analytics, and program management is built around documentation, data, and asynchronous communication, none of which require a specific location. If remote is non-negotiable for you, those paths deserve extra attention.
The flip side: Administration/Management/Operations still leads the remote list in raw volume, but it takes a smaller share of remote postings than it does of the overall board. Leadership and ops roles do exist remotely. They’re just more likely to come with an in-person component.
Top titles for remote non-clinical jobs
Top Remote Job Titles
Share of fully-remote roles in the selected view.
The chart shows the specific job titles appearing most often in remote postings. A few patterns stand out:
- No single title dominates. Even the top remote title (Patient Access Liaison) is a sliver of remote postings. Remote work is spread across many titles, so search by career path and company instead of title alone.
- Documentation and data themes repeat. Workers Compensation Claims Examiner, Epic Analyst, and Senior Data Analyst all made the list, alongside remote-friendly clinical-expertise roles like Senior Clinical Specialist and Wound Healing Specialist.
Top companies for remote non-clinical jobs
Top Companies for Remote Jobs
Share of fully-remote roles in the selected view.
If working from home is the priority, these remote employers should anchor your search.
Humana leads again, with Gainwell Technologies close behind. Together they accounted for about 15% of all remote postings on the board.
The device and life-science companies on the list (Amgen, Solventum, Cardinal Health, Medtronic, GE HealthCare) are great targets for rehab pros who like the industry but don’t want a field-based travel schedule. And if you’re earlier in your transition, flip to the Starter view: Medtronic posted the most remote starter roles this quarter.
Key takeaways: how to use this intel
Choose your target career path, and get involved. Hiring managers want to see some level of investment on your part into the specific role they are looking to fill. A simple online course, or self-education like attending events and talking to folks already in these roles can be all the initiative an employer needs to see to feel comfortable you’re doing something more than running from the clinic. Don’t take our word for it. Check out this post: How to Get a Non-Clinical Job: Advice From the Hiring Managers Making the Decisions.
If you want remote work, build a strategy and not just a wishlist. The roles are there, but competition is real. Target the specific career paths and companies where remote work is most concentrated, use the job titles we listed for search, and invest in the prep work that makes your application stand out.
Be ready before the role appears. With four in 10 postings expiring within two weeks, the rehab pros who land non-clinical roles are the ones who prepped early. Their resume and LinkedIn profile were ready before the right posting appeared, and they’d practiced their interview answers before anyone called. Game-time prep is too slow in this market.
Whatever your next step looks like, we’re in your corner. Your clinical training and patient-care experience open these doors. The work is in figuring out which one to walk through.
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