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Athletic Trainers
Evaluate and treat musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses. Provide preventive, therapeutic, emergency, and rehabilitative care.
What an athletic trainer does
Become an athletic trainer
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good athletic trainer
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $36 per hour with a typical salary of $61,100 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $21 and $39 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $3,200 and $57,500 per year.
- 43% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $26 per hour with a typical salary of $14,200 per year.
- 77.3% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Athletic Trainer job outlook
- There are 373 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 74 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 6% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 35% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.