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If you’re a PT, OT, SLP or assistant wondering where the non-clinical jobs actually are right now, you’re in the right place. Every quarter we dig through every non-clinical job we find for rehab clinicians and report back: who’s hiring, what they pay, how fast jobs disappear, and where you might fit.
This is The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, from Go Non-Clinical, for Q3 2026. It covers 30,124 non-clinical jobs from 2,020 employers posted to the Go Non-Clinical job board, more than double last quarter. One quick note before the numbers: this is what we found on our job board, not the entire non-clinical job market. Think of it as a curated window into the non-clinical options for rehab clinicians in the job market right now.
Most of you are hunting for your first non-clinical job, so we lead with starter jobs in every section: realistic first moves out of the clinic that ask for the experience you already have. Experienced roles come next. And every chart has buttons, so you can flip to the view that fits where you are.
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Q3 2026 at a glance
- 30,124 jobs. The Go Non-Clinical job board posted 30,124 non-clinical jobs for PTs, OTs, SLPs and assistants in Q3 2026, from 2,020 employers. 9,780 of them were starter jobs.
- $77,600. Median posted base pay for starter non-clinical jobs was $77,600 in Q3 2026 (salaried postings), per The Non-Clinical Jobs Report. Experienced roles: $110,000.
- 4 in 10. 40% of starter jobs posted to the Go Non-Clinical job board in Q3 2026 were gone within two weeks. For fully remote starter jobs, it was 65%.
- 9% vs 28%. Only 9% of starter jobs were fully remote, but 28% included at least some remote work.
- 1 in 10. One in 10 starter jobs was part-time, PRN or temporary.
- 38%. 38% of starter jobs were at PSLF-qualifying employers.
In this report:
- Job volume: our biggest quarter yet
- Starter, experienced and executive jobs
- Speed: 4 in 10 jobs are gone within two weeks
- What non-clinical jobs pay
- The top career paths, and the jobs inside them
- Who’s hiring
- Where the work happens
- Remote work: what’s really out there
- Part-time, PRN and hybrid roles: bridges out of the clinic
- PSLF: about 1 in 3 jobs are at qualifying employers
- Key takeaways
- Free resources (and a head start)
- How we put this report together
- Using our data
- Past Non-Clinical Jobs Reports
Job volume: our biggest quarter yet
The Go Non-Clinical job board posted 30,124 non-clinical jobs in Q3 2026. That’s more than double Q2’s 12,464, and more than 18 times what we posted in Q3 2025.
Same caveat as always: most of that growth comes from the work we’ve put into finding more jobs, not from the market itself doubling every quarter. What we can say is that employers aren’t losing interest in rehab pros. Healthcare keeps hiring, and so do the companies that sell to it: the device makers, health tech firms, insurers and post-acute systems that need people who understand patient care from the inside.
Total Jobs by Quarter
Non-clinical jobs on the Go Non-Clinical job board each quarter, 2025 vs 2026.
The pace picked up all quarter. We added about 2,300 new jobs a week on average, including about 750 starter jobs, and by late September we were adding more than 3,000 a week.
New Jobs Added Each Week
Jobs first seen on our board each week, by track, through the last full week of the quarter.
More jobs means more options, and also more complexity. The rest of this report is about sorting the data so we can surface the most useful insights.
Starter, experienced and executive jobs
About 1 in 3 jobs (9,780) were starter jobs: roles a rehab clinician can realistically land as a first non-clinical move, using the license, degree and experience you already have (or can pick up quickly). Another 19,657 (65%) were experienced roles that ask for some prior non-clinical experience, and 687 (2%) were executive roles, VP level and up.
Starter, Experienced and Executive Jobs
How Q3 2026's 30,124 jobs split by track. Starter jobs are realistic first moves out of the clinic for rehab clinicians.
These aren’t three slices of the same pie. They behave like three different job markets, with different pay, different odds of working from home and different employers. Here’s the side-by-side.
Three Markets at a Glance
Q3 2026 jobs by track. Each column describes a different job market for rehab clinicians.
| Starter | Experienced | Executive | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs | 9,78032% of all jobs | 19,65765% of all jobs | 6872% of all jobs |
| Employers hiring | 1,134 | 1,682 | 257 |
| Median posted base pay | $77,600middle half $65,000–$95,200; n = 2,479 | $110,000middle half $84,900–$150,000; n = 9,828 | $245,600middle half $207,100–$284,700; n = 307 |
| Median hourly pay | $31.00n = 2,186 | $36.50n = 2,103 | Too few to report |
| Postings that publish pay | 52% | 66% | 50% |
| Fully remote | 9% | 27% | 26% |
| Field (territory) roles | 31% | 18% | 11% |
| Part-time, PRN or temporary | 10% | 3% | Under 1% |
| At PSLF-qualifying employers | 38% | 35% | 25% |
| Median days a job stays open | 21 days | 22 days | 35 days |
| Gone within two weeks | 40% | 39% | 28% |
| Biggest career path | Case Management & Care Coordination15% of the track’s jobs | Sales & Business Development10% of the track’s jobs | Healthcare Operations & Practice Management23% of the track’s jobs |
Pay: median of each posting’s midpoint, salaried postings only; hourly-posted jobs are reported separately. Remote means fully remote.
Starter doesn’t mean junior
Here’s something that can surprise people: starter jobs aren’t all associate-level titles. About 1,300 starter jobs were manager- or director-level roles. The biggest groups were director of rehab and rehab manager roles (310), facility administrators (171), operations leaders (141), therapy clinic managers (96) and center or clinic managers (84). If you’ve run a caseload, a schedule and a team of aides at the same time, employers know you’ve already been managing.
Where starter jobs cluster
Some career paths are far friendlier to a first move than others. In clinical liaison and admissions, 90% of jobs were starter jobs. Case management and care coordination and rehab and therapy operations were 75% starter, and clinical specialist and product education roles (think device clinical specialists) were 70%. On the other end, product management, strategy and marketing were all under 10% starter.
Where Starter Jobs Concentrate
Share of each career path's jobs that are starter jobs (career paths with 300+ jobs).
Experienced roles get their own spotlight in each section below. Executive roles were a small slice this quarter, mostly operations, marketing and sales leadership, so we’ll keep those brief.
Speed: 4 in 10 jobs are gone within two weeks
This is the stat we flag every quarter, because it shapes your search more than any other: 40% of starter jobs sourced for the Go Non-Clinical job board in Q3 2026 were gone within two weeks. The typical starter job stayed open just 21 days. Experienced jobs moved at almost exactly the same pace (39% gone in two weeks, 22 days), and it’s the same story as last quarter.
Gone Within Two Weeks
How many jobs were gone within 14 days of first appearing on our board.
But “4 in 10” is an average. Some jobs vanish much faster, and some hang around. Here’s what we found when we dug in.
The jobs that disappear fastest
- Fully remote jobs. 65% of fully remote starter jobs were gone within two weeks, the fastest of any group we looked at. Experienced remote roles weren’t far behind at 49%. Everyone wants these, and employers can fill them fast.
- Hybrid starter jobs. About half (53%) of hybrid starter jobs, the ones that are part on-site and part at home, were gone within two weeks.
- Clinical research and the desk-based paths. 54% of starter clinical research jobs were gone within two weeks. Clinical informatics (52%), revenue cycle (50%), quality and compliance (48%) and patient access (46%) also moved fast.
- Jobs at PSLF-qualifying employers. 49% of starter jobs at nonprofit and government employers were gone within two weeks, vs 33% at other employers. Big health systems hire in volume, and they move quickly.
- Jobs at big employers. Starter jobs at employers that posted 100 or more jobs this quarter went faster (44% within two weeks) than jobs at smaller employers (28% to 35%).
Fully Remote Jobs Close Fastest
Share of jobs gone within two weeks of first appearing on our board, by work arrangement. Field = mostly traveling a territory.
Nearly 2 in 3 fully remote starter jobs were gone within two weeks.
The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, Q3 2026
The jobs that stick around longer
- Field roles. Jobs spent mostly on the road, covering a territory, were the slowest to close: 29% gone within two weeks, with a typical posting open about a month.
- Sales and liaison roles. Starter sales and business development (26%), referral development (26%), rehab and therapy operations (26%) and clinical liaison and admissions (24%) moved the slowest of the big starter paths.
- Health tech. Jobs at health tech companies stayed open longest of any sector. Only 26% of starter health tech jobs, and 18% of experienced ones, were gone within two weeks.
Slower doesn’t mean easier to land, but it does give you a little breathing room to put together a strong application.
The bottom line: for the jobs most of you want, you won’t have weeks to write a resume from scratch after the posting goes up. The rehab pros who land these roles had their resume, LinkedIn and interview stories ready before the right job appeared.
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What non-clinical jobs pay
The question we hear more than any other: will I have to take a pay cut? Here’s what employers actually posted this quarter.
Median posted base pay for starter non-clinical jobs was $77,600 (salaried postings; the middle half paid $65,000 to $95,200), per The Non-Clinical Jobs Report for Q3 2026. That’s right in line with last quarter. Experienced roles had a median of $110,000 (middle half: $84,900 to $150,000), and executive roles $245,600.
What Non-Clinical Jobs Pay
Posted annual base pay, salaried postings only (midpoint of each posted range). Starter n = 2,479 · experienced n = 9,828 · executive n = 307. Hourly-posted jobs are reported separately; 61% of postings publish pay.
Leadership pays, even on the starter side. Starter jobs at manager level had a median of $90,000, compared with $75,700 for individual contributor roles.
The best-paying starter career paths
Among starter jobs, these career paths posted the highest median base pay:
- Rehab and therapy operations: $93,400. Mostly director of rehab and rehab manager roles. (One employer posted about a third of these jobs.)
- Clinical informatics and health IT: $89,900. The best-paid starter job family here was EHR application and systems analysts, the people who build and support the electronic health record systems you use every day, also at $89,900.
- Quality, compliance and regulatory: $84,500, led by compliance and privacy specialists at $84,500.
- Clinical liaison and admissions: $82,500.
- Data and analytics: $78,500, with data analysts at $75,700.
Two more paid well, but mostly at a single employer, so read these as pay at the employers currently hiring: facility administration ($111,900) and clinical specialist and product education ($95,000).
For experienced roles, the top earners were market access and reimbursement ($198,300), health policy and government affairs ($188,600) and medical affairs ($202,800, though one employer posted nearly half of those). Among job families, medical affairs leadership ($225,800), product leadership ($201,100) and marketing leadership ($196,800) led the way.
Top-Paying Career Paths
Median posted base pay by career path, salaried postings only (20+ postings from 5+ employers). ⚠ one employer posted 30% or more of the postings; ⚠⚠ more than half (read as pay at the employers currently hiring). Sales paths show base pay only: see the sales pay chart.
Sales pay: the posted number isn’t the whole paycheck
In sales, a big chunk of your pay usually comes from commission or bonuses on top of a base salary. The total you’d expect to earn when you hit your goals is called on-target earnings, or OTE. The catch: most sales postings only list the base.
- Starter sales-flavored roles (sales, referral and liaison, clinical specialist and similar roles) posted a median base of $80,000. The 32 starter postings that did list OTE had a median of $135,000.
- Experienced sales-flavored roles posted a median base of $120,000, and $185,000 where OTE was listed.
- Commission-based sales roles (at device, health tech, DME and similar companies) posted lower base pay, a median of $63,700 for starter roles. Based on what employers who list both numbers tell us, we estimate their OTE at $100,500 to $127,300 for starter roles and $157,900 to $200,000 for experienced roles.
Sales Pay: Base vs On-Target Earnings
Medians, salaried sales-type postings. Most sales postings publish base pay only. The estimated on-target earnings (OTE) range applies what postings that publish both show (OTE ran 1.6–2.0 times base) to commission-lane sales jobs; it is an estimate, not a published figure.
This matters even if sales isn’t your thing. Because so many sales postings list only base pay, the pay medians in this report understate what non-clinical jobs really pay, for starter and experienced roles alike. Sales roles make up nearly a third of the starter salaries we analyzed, so when their commission doesn’t show up in the posting, it doesn’t show up in the median either. If we counted on-target earnings for sales roles (what employers posted, plus our estimates where they didn’t), the starter median would be about $80,000 instead of $77,600, and the experienced median about $112,800 instead of $110,000. Everywhere else in this report, pay means posted base pay.
Why some jobs post pay and others don’t
61% of the postings we analyzed included pay. Where the law requires it, that jumped: 83% of jobs in states with pay-transparency laws posted pay, vs 37% everywhere else.
Those laws are tied to where the job is done, including many remote jobs that could be done from that state, not where the company is headquartered. Some also exempt smaller employers (Jackson Lewis, 2026).
And the habit spills over:
- Employers that hire in both kinds of states posted pay on 83% of their jobs in pay-transparency states, and on 43% of their jobs elsewhere.
- Employers that only hire where no law applies posted pay just 23% of the time.
- Remote jobs posted pay 77% of the time, likely because they can be filled from a state that requires it.
Starter postings were less likely to list pay (52%) than experienced ones (66%). If a job you like doesn’t list pay, look for the same employer’s postings in a pay-transparency state. They’ll often show you the range.
How Often Postings Publish Pay
Share of postings that publish a usable pay figure, by where the job is.
The top career paths, and the jobs inside them
Our 30,124 jobs span 41 non-clinical career paths. For starter jobs, three stood out: case management and care coordination (1,441 jobs), sales and business development (1,114) and clinical research (1,019). Rehab and therapy operations (537) and healthcare operations and practice management (506) rounded out the top five.
Top Career Paths for Starter Jobs
The five career paths with the most starter jobs, with pay and remote work for each.
| Career path | Starter jobs | Share of starter jobs | Median posted base pay | Jobs with some remote work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case management & care coordination | 1,441 | 15% | $63,200 | 32% |
| Sales & business development | 1,114 | 11% | $75,300 ⚠ | 23% |
| Clinical research | 1,019 | 10% | $66,200 | 23% |
| Rehab & therapy operations | 537 | 5% | $93,400 ⚠ | 0% |
| Healthcare operations & practice management | 506 | 5% | $69,500 | 7% |
Pay: median posted base pay, salaried postings. ⚠ One employer posted 30% or more of the path’s salaried postings.
Top Non-Clinical Career Paths
Jobs by career path (41 paths).
Case management and care coordination
The biggest starter path by a mile. Case managers and care managers (598 jobs), care coordinators (323) and patient navigators and advocates (237) make up most of it. Insurers and post-acute providers do most of the hiring: Molina Healthcare (128), PAM Health (100) and UnitedHealth Group (79) posted the most.
Median posted base pay was $63,200, and roles posted hourly had a median of $31.50 an hour. Only 7% of these jobs are fully remote, but 32% include at least some remote work, the most of the five biggest starter paths. Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix had the most.
Sales and business development
Sales representatives (368), specialty pharma reps (210) and territory managers (80) lead this path. AbbVie (153), Lincare (106) and Rotech Healthcare (75) posted the most starter jobs. The median posted base was $75,300, and remember, that’s before commission. These are mostly field roles (5% fully remote), with New York, Los Angeles and Dallas on top.
Clinical research
Clinical research coordinators (460), research assistants and technicians (256) and research associates (102) make up most of the starter jobs here. Academic medical centers do most of the hiring: Mass General Brigham (188), Mount Sinai (95) and Mayo Clinic (67). Boston (196 jobs) and New York (132) lead by a mile, with Nashville a distant third (46).
The median posted base was $66,200. And as you saw above, these jobs move fast: 54% were gone within two weeks.
For experienced roles
Experienced jobs lead with sales and business development (1,955), healthcare operations and practice management (1,764) and clinical research (1,484). Clinical research is the most remote-friendly of the three: 25% of experienced clinical research jobs are fully remote. Many are clinical research associates (often called monitors) at contract research organizations, the companies that run clinical trials for drug and device makers, like ICON. In sales, sales leadership roles had a median base of $185,000.
Want the full picture of each path, from what the work looks like to who’s hiring? Our guide to non-clinical jobs for physical therapists walks through them one by one.
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Our free non-clinical career quiz takes 15 questions to point you toward the non-clinical sectors that fit your strengths and what you want next.
Who’s hiring
Health systems and hospitals posted the most starter jobs by far: 3,145, about a third of the total. Insurers (781), rehab hospitals and post-acute care (740) and medical device companies (638) came next.
Top Employer Sectors
Jobs by the sector of the hiring employer or division (33 sectors).
The employers posting the most starter jobs were PAM Health, DaVita, Mass General Brigham, Encompass Health and Mayo Clinic.
Top Employers Hiring
Employers with the most jobs. 2,020 employers posted at least one job; the top 10 posted 17% of all jobs.
The employers that hire for almost everything
If you want options, look at big health systems. Trinity Health posted jobs in 34 of our 41 career paths this quarter, 28 of them starter roles. Providence (32 paths), Mass General Brigham (30), Ascension (30, including 27 with starter jobs), Sanford Health (30) and Kaiser Permanente (29) weren’t far behind.
Of the 37 employers that hired across 20 or more career paths, 27 were health systems. Insurers came next, led by Humana (28 paths) and UnitedHealth Group (24). As a group, health systems hired in 37 of the 41 career paths.
Trinity Health posted jobs in 34 of our 41 non-clinical career paths this quarter.
The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, Q3 2026
The market is broad, too. The 10 biggest employers posted only 17% of all jobs, and 2,020 different employers posted at least one.
Where the work happens
If you’re picturing leaving the clinic for a home office, here’s the reality check: 90% of starter jobs involve being somewhere in person at least part of the time. Half (49%) are fully on-site, and 31% are field roles, spent mostly on the road covering a territory. Think clinical liaisons, territory managers and sales reps. For experienced roles, it’s 73%.
Where the Work Happens
Jobs by work arrangement. On-site / Remote = hybrid; Field = mostly traveling a territory.
For a lot of rehab pros, that’s actually good news. Field and hybrid roles get you out of the four walls of the clinic without chaining you to a desk all day.
The opportunity map
Big cities have the most jobs, but they also have the most clinicians competing for them. So our map colors each metro area by jobs per 1,000 rehab clinicians who work there (PTs, OTs, SLPs, PTAs and OTAs, using BLS May 2025 employment data), compared with the U.S. rate of 33.
- New York had the most jobs (1,670), but per clinician it sat right around the national average.
- Salt Lake City (4.2 times the U.S. rate), Nashville (2.5×), New Orleans (2.4×), San Francisco (2.3×) and Boston (1.9×) stood out among bigger metros.
- Rochester, Minnesota topped the map at 11.5 times the U.S. rate, mostly thanks to one employer.
- St. Louis, Cincinnati and Charlotte had fewer jobs per clinician than most big metros.
- For starter jobs, Rochester, Iowa City, Salt Lake City and York, Pennsylvania stood out.
Search for your city below, or tap a metro to see which career paths and types of employers stand out there.
Non-Clinical Jobs by Metro Area
Colored by jobs per 1,000 rehab clinicians working in each metro, compared with the U.S. rate of 33. Search for your area, or zoom and tap a metro to see what stands out there.
Remote work: what’s really out there
Remote work is what rehab pros ask us about most, so here are the honest numbers. About 1 in 5 jobs (21%) on the Go Non-Clinical job board in Q3 2026 was fully remote. For starter jobs, it was 9%: 915 jobs out of 9,780. For experienced roles, 27%.
How Much of Each Market Is Fully Remote
Share of jobs that are fully remote, by track.
Jobs with some remote work
Now widen the lens. 28% of starter jobs (2,785) included at least some remote work. That’s three times as many as were fully remote.
- Hybrid roles (part on-site, part at home): 962 starter jobs.
- Home-based field roles (you work from home and travel your territory): 536.
- Roles that mix field, office and home days: 372.
Across all jobs, 46% included at least some remote work.
For every fully remote starter job, there were two more with some remote work.
The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, Q3 2026
These jobs give you more time, too. Only 46% of starter jobs with some remote work were gone within two weeks, compared with 65% of fully remote starter jobs. Pay was close: hybrid and home-based starter roles posted a median of $72,800, vs $76,700 for fully remote ones. And for experienced roles, hybrid and home-based jobs actually paid the most, with a median of $120,000 vs $110,000 for fully remote roles.
Jobs With Some Remote Work
Jobs with at least some remote work, and what that includes. Percentages are shares of all jobs in the selected view.
So what are these jobs? For starter roles, mostly case management and care coordination (360), sales and business development (206), clinical research (181) and clinical specialist roles (128). That means care coordinators, case managers, device clinical specialists, research coordinators and referral-focused territory managers. Medtronic, Mass General Brigham and Mayo Clinic posted the most.
Some starter paths lean remote-friendly across the board: 75% of starter customer success jobs (helping clients get results from software or services they’ve bought), 59% of provider relations jobs (managing an insurer’s relationships with the clinics and hospitals in its network), and 57% of utilization management jobs (reviewing whether care is medically necessary before an insurer pays) included some remote work.
Where the fully remote jobs are
Fully remote work leans experienced and desk-based. Medical coding was the most remote-friendly common job: 69% of medical coder jobs were fully remote, with coding auditors (75%) and payment integrity and risk adjustment roles (77%, checking claims and coding for accuracy) even higher.
For starter roles, the most common fully remote jobs were patient navigators and advocates, EHR application analysts, member support roles, and case managers at drug makers’ patient-support hubs (helping patients get access to and pay for specialty medications).
Top Career Paths for Fully Remote Jobs
Fully remote jobs (6,330, 21% of all jobs) by career path.
Humana, Gainwell Technologies and ICON posted the most fully remote jobs overall. For starter roles, Ascension, Elevance Health and Intermountain Healthcare led.
Top Employers for Fully Remote Jobs
Fully remote jobs by employer.
One more thing to know: about 1 in 6 fully remote postings we could check limit where you can live, to certain states, a region, or near an office. A city listed on a remote posting doesn’t necessarily mean you have to live there, though. For more on finding and landing remote roles, check out our guide to remote and work-from-home jobs for PTs, OTs and SLPs.
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Part-time, PRN and hybrid roles: bridges out of the clinic
Not everyone wants to jump from full-time clinical work to full-time non-clinical work in one leap. A part-time or PRN non-clinical role, or a job that keeps a bit of patient care, can be a smart bridge. You build non-clinical experience (and a resume line that proves it) while keeping your income steady.
The good news for career changers: these jobs lean starter. 952 starter jobs (10%) were part-time, PRN or temporary, vs 3% of experienced roles. And 397 starter jobs kept some patient care as part of a mostly non-clinical role.
Jobs by Employment Type
Bridge Roles at a Glance
Starter jobs that are part-time, PRN, temporary or contract, or a mix of clinical and non-clinical work.
| Bridge type | Starter jobs | Most common starter roles | Median hourly pay (starter) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part-time | 458 | Injury prevention specialists, faculty and instructors, rehab directors | $32.00 |
| PRN / per-diem | 280 | Case managers, clinical liaisons, clinical navigators | $32.00 |
| Temporary or contract | 214 | PT and OT consultants, change management specialists, clinical research coordinators | $36.00 |
| Hybrid clinical / non-clinical | 397 | Rehab directors who keep a caseload, clinical research coordinators, therapy clinic managers | $36.00 |
Pay: median posted hourly rate, starter jobs.
Top Career Paths for Part-Time, PRN and Temporary Jobs
1,590 jobs (5% of the quarter) are part-time, PRN / per-diem, or temporary or contract; 952 of them are starter jobs.
Part-time jobs
Part-time roles leaned toward injury prevention specialists (51 starter jobs), mostly industrial and workplace ergonomics roles at companies like Confluent Health, along with teaching (faculty and instructor roles, 43) and part-time rehab director roles (40). Starter part-time jobs that posted an hourly rate had a median of $32.00 an hour.
PRN and per-diem jobs
PRN roles were the most starter-heavy bridge of all: 76% starter. Case managers (77 starter jobs), clinical liaisons (42) and clinical navigators (27, often managing admissions for post-acute hospitals) led the list, and PAM Health posted the most by far. Case management stood out on pay: flexible starter case manager roles, mostly PRN, posted a median of $45.00 an hour (one employer posted about a third of them).
Temporary and contract jobs
Temporary and contract roles were the most remote-friendly bridge, with 61% including some remote work. PT and OT consultant roles doing home and utilization assessments (49 starter jobs, almost all at Periscope) topped the list, followed by temporary change management specialists helping roll out new systems and clinical research coordinators.
Hybrid roles that keep a foot in patient care
Some non-clinical jobs keep a little patient care in the mix, which can make the jump feel less like a leap. We found 519 of them, and 76% were starter jobs. Think rehab directors who keep a small caseload (138 starter jobs), clinical research coordinators who also handle procedures like taking vitals (86), and therapy clinic and program managers (82).
Mass General Brigham, HealthPRO Heritage, Legacy Healthcare Services and Powerback Rehabilitation posted the most. Almost all of these roles are on-site in care delivery (87%), and 1 in 5 is also part-time or PRN. They pay well for starter roles, too: a median of $93,600 for salaried postings, or $36.00 an hour.
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The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, Q3 2026
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PSLF: about 1 in 3 jobs are at qualifying employers
Carrying student loans? 38% of starter jobs (3,697) were at employers that qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, meaning government and 501(c)(3) nonprofit employers. Across all jobs it was 35%.
Where to look: health systems and other care providers (60% of their jobs were at qualifying employers), and public, education and nonprofit employers (79%). Almost none of the jobs at life sciences or health tech companies were.
For starter roles, the career paths with the most jobs at PSLF-qualifying employers were clinical research (834), case management and care coordination (527), patient access (329) and healthcare operations (295). Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Trinity Health, Providence and Ascension posted the most jobs at qualifying employers.
Top Career Paths at PSLF-Qualifying Employers
Jobs at employers that qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (government or 501(c)(3)), by career path: 35% of the quarter's jobs. Qualifying depends on the employing entity and full-time work.
There’s a tradeoff. Starter jobs at PSLF-qualifying employers posted a lower median base ($71,000 vs $80,300 elsewhere), partly because the highest-paying starter roles sit at device and pharma companies. Even among care providers, qualifying employers paid starter roles less ($75,700 vs $86,300). So weigh the value of loan forgiveness against the salary. And move fast: 49% of starter jobs at these employers were gone within two weeks.
Pay at PSLF-Qualifying Employers
Median posted base pay, salaried postings. The gap mostly reflects sector mix: within care delivery, experienced jobs at PSLF-qualifying employers pay $101,400 vs $92,000 elsewhere.
PSLF depends on your specific employer and on full-time work, so check the details at studentaid.gov before you count on it.
Key takeaways
Here’s what the Q3 2026 Non-Clinical Jobs Report means for your search.
- Be ready before the job appears. 4 in 10 starter jobs were gone within two weeks, and nearly 2 in 3 fully remote starter jobs. Game-day prep is too slow in this market. (Hiring managers told us the same thing: here’s what they look for.)
- Widen your remote search. For every fully remote starter job, there were two more with some remote work, and those stayed open longer.
- Think about a bridge. One in 10 starter jobs was part-time, PRN or temporary, and hundreds more kept some patient care. Your first non-clinical job doesn’t have to be full-time.
- Don’t judge sales pay by the base. Most sales postings list only base pay, and commission and bonuses come on top.
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How we put this report together
- The data. Every non-clinical job for rehab clinicians posted to the Go Non-Clinical job board from July 1 to September 30, 2026. It reflects our job board, not the entire job market.
- Starter, experienced and executive. Labels follow Go Non-Clinical’s own definitions, built for rehab clinicians. Starter jobs are realistic first moves out of the clinic, not entry-level jobs. Experienced jobs call for prior non-clinical experience. Executive jobs are VP level and above.
- Pay. Pay comes from the job postings themselves: what employers offered, not what people in those jobs earn. When a posting gives a range, we use the midpoint and report the median, with the middle half of postings alongside it. Yearly figures come from salaried postings. We report a figure only when it rests on at least 20 postings from at least 5 employers, and we note when one employer posted 30% or more of them. Sales pay is base pay unless we say otherwise, and on-target earnings estimates are always labeled as estimates.
- How long jobs stay open. From the day a job appeared on our board to the day the employer closed it, checked nightly.
- Work arrangement. Fully remote, hybrid (part on-site, part remote), field (mostly traveling a territory), on-site, or a mix, as each posting describes it.
- Hybrid clinical roles. Mostly non-clinical jobs whose postings list some patient-care duties.
- PSLF. We label the employer, not the job: government entities and 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Eligibility also depends on full-time work and your specific employer.
- The map. Jobs per 1,000 rehab clinicians (PTs, OTs, SLPs, PTAs and OTAs) employed in each metro area, from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025), compared with the U.S. rate. Fully remote jobs aren’t on the map.
- Rounding. Yearly pay to the nearest $100, hourly pay to the nearest $0.50, and percentages to whole numbers.
Using our data
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Cite this report
- In a sentence: According to The Non-Clinical Jobs Report from Go Non-Clinical, the Go Non-Clinical job board posted 30,124 non-clinical jobs for PTs, OTs, SLPs and assistants in Q3 2026.
- Short citation: The Non-Clinical Jobs Report, Q3 2026. Go Non-Clinical. thenonclinicalpt.com/non-clinical-jobs-report/
- APA: Go Non-Clinical. (2026, October 11). The Non-Clinical Jobs Report: Q3 2026. The Non-Clinical PT. https://thenonclinicalpt.com/non-clinical-jobs-report/
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