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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
- Average salary of $54,700 per 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.