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Respiratory therapists

Also called RT, Registered respiratory therapist, RRT, Certified respiratory therapist, CRT

In brief

In May 2025, BLS counted 139,790 US respiratory therapists, with median pay of $82,280 a year. Of the BLS counts since 2003, the May 2025 count is the highest. The earliest figure here is an estimate of 5,000 from 1960, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for respiratory therapists: Cloud-based remote CPAP monitoring, 2014 to 2023.

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Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 8.5% from 2025 to 2035.

BLS Employment Projections 2025-35

AI exposure studies

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.

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@misc{futurehistory_29_1126, author = {{Future History}}, title = {Respiratory therapists: jobs and pay since 1960}, year = {2026}, month = oct, howpublished = {\url{https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/29-1126}}, note = {Last updated 2026-10-11. Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35}, }

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195019752000now
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Known then as Inhalation Therapy Technician / Oxygen Orderly (hospital on-the-job training era)
Known then as Inhalation Therapist (American Association of Inhalation Therapists era)
Known then as Respiratory Therapist (National Board for Respiratory Therapy credentialing era)
Known then as Respiratory Care Practitioner / Respiratory Therapist (dual-title transition era)
Known then as Respiratory Therapist (BLS SOC 29-1126)
Known today as Respiratory Therapist (BLS SOC 29-1126)
Projected to still be called Respiratory Therapist (BLS SOC 29-1126)
Data from the May 2025 survey
US Employment
140K
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Stated in source: BLS OEWS

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Median Annual Wage
$82,280
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≈ $80,170 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)

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Beat · 1946

July 13, 1946: The Inhalation Therapy Association (ITA) is formally established at the University of Chicago Hospital. Its 59 founding members include physicians, nurses, and on-the-job-trained oxygen technicians, 17 of them from religious nursing orders. The organization is the first formal recognition that inhalation therapy is a distinct healthcare specialty requiring its own credential and professional identity. The ITA is the direct ancestor of today's American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), which has undergone four name changes since 1946.

Beat · 1952

52,628 cases of polio are reported in the United States in 1952, the largest single-year epidemic in US history. Hospitals fill with iron lung machines, and the demand for trained inhalation therapy technicians outpaces supply. The profession is permanently established as a hospital necessity by the scale of the ventilatory support challenge. The following year, Jonas Salk begins clinical trials of the polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh. By the late 1950s, iron lung wards are closing, but the workforce trained to operate them transfers its skills to the positive-pressure ventilators replacing the tanks.

Beat · 1960

November 18, 1960: the first Registry examinations are administered in Minneapolis under the newly formed American Registry of Inhalation Therapists (ARIT). Sister Mary Yvonne Jenn becomes the first Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) in 1961 after passing the inaugural examination. The credentialing apparatus arrives 14 years after the profession's founding, reflecting the tension between the urgent hospital need for trained technicians and the slower institutional process of building a formal examination and credential.

Beat · 1974

The two credentialing bodies governing the profession merge into the National Board for Respiratory Therapy (NBRT), creating a single unified credential system. The same year, "Respiratory Therapist" becomes the standard professional designation in both the United States and Canada, replacing "inhalation therapist." The profession has a name, a credential, and an accreditation body (JRCRTE, established 1970) all in place within a four-year window, a burst of institutional formalization that marks the profession's coming of age as a recognized healthcare discipline.

Beat · 1982

California becomes the first state to pass a modern licensure law governing the respiratory therapy profession, requiring state licensure to practice. President Ronald Reagan simultaneously proclaims the first National Respiratory Care Week. Licensure expands state by state over the next two decades: Vermont became the 48th contiguous US state to pass the Respiratory Care Act in 2004, and Hawaii achieved licensure in 2010 as the 49th state. State licensure protects the professional scope of practice and directly supports the argument that RT clinical judgment must remain human-supervised.

Beat · 2000

The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the ARDS Network trial (ARDSNet) showing that low-tidal-volume lung-protective ventilation (6 mL/kg predicted body weight) reduces ICU mortality from 39.8% to 31.0% in ARDS patients. The trial makes evidence-based ventilator management a core RT competency and provides the clinical foundation for the AARC's protocol-driven liberation guidelines. Respiratory therapists become the frontline implementers and monitors of lung-protective ventilation protocols across American ICUs, a clinical authority role that AI decision-support tools have since amplified rather than replaced.

Beat · 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic places respiratory therapists at the center of a global healthcare emergency. US RT job vacancies increase 31% between 2019 and 2020. Hospitals recruit recently retired RTs and accelerate graduation of near-completion students. Institutions without sufficient RT capacity train physicians, nurses, and medical students as RT extenders. The crisis reveals both the irreplaceability of trained RTs in ICU ventilator management and the structural fragility of a workforce where burnout (93% of RTs report it as a major issue post-pandemic), low enrollment in training programs, and approaching retirement of the Baby Boomer RT cohort combine to create a sustained shortage.

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Cited forecasts · present → 2035

Will AI replace respiratory therapists? What the research says

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What published forecasts say
Forecast change in the number of people doing this work, as published by each named source. Bars share one scale on every role, centred on zero and reaching the end at ±30%. Grey marks a small change, 3% or less either way.
BLS Employment Projections 2025-35
→ 2035
+8.5%
BLS National Employment Matrix, 2025-35 cycle, line for SOC 29-1126 (Respiratory therapists): 142.0 thousand jobs in 2025, projected 154.2 thousand in 2035, a change of +12.1 thousand (+8.5%). Matrix employment counts all jobs in the occupation, including self-employed workers. The average for all occupations in this cycle is +3.5%.
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How exposed is this work to AI (research measures)
Scores as published by each study. Each row says what it measures. These measure what AI could technically do, not forecasts of jobs lost.
Eloundou et al. (2023), "GPTs are GPTs"
2023 study · Share of tasks exposed to LLMs (β, human-rated)
19%
of tasks
What this measures

Published occupation-level exposure from the paper's occ_level.csv for O*NET-SOC 29-1126.00 Respiratory Therapists. Shown: human-rated β = 0.19, the share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could do in at least half the time at equal quality, counting tasks that need LLM-powered software at half weight (β = E1 + 0.5 × E2). Other published measures for this occupation: human-rated α (LLM alone) 0.095 and γ (all LLM-assisted) 0.286; GPT-4-rated β 0.202. This measures how much of the work an LLM could touch, not how many jobs disappear.

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Today, in this role

What's changing day to day for respiratory therapists

Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.

AI is sitting alongside you hereDocument respiratory care and maintain AI-assisted patient records, entering therapy assessments, ventilator settings, ABG results, and treatment responses into hospital EHR systems (Epic, MEDITECH) using structured respiratory care flowsheets

Document respiratory care and maintain AI-assisted patient records, entering therapy assessments, ventilator settings, ABG results, and treatment responses into hospital EHR systems (Epic, MEDITECH) using structured respiratory care flowsheets; reviewing and editing AI-ambient-scribe-generated therapy notes for accuracy before attestation; maintaining ventilator flowsheets and weaning documentation compliant with The Joint Commission and CMS requirements; ensuring data completeness for AI monitoring platform inputs (Etiometry T3, Capsule Surveillance) that depend on accurate real-time EHR data feeds; generating shift-end summaries of ventilated patient status for hand-off communication.[9],[1]

Tools picking this up
Where your edge is

Ambient AI scribe technology is penetrating hospital documentation workflows broadly: Emory Healthcare (2025 JAMA study) saw a 30.7% improvement in documentation well-being with ambient AI, and Cleveland Clinic saved several minutes of documentation time per clinician per day. RT flowsheet documentation is structured and relatively formulaic compared to physician narrative notes, making it well-suited for AI-assisted generation. However, RT attestation remains legally required for all ventilator orders and respiratory care documentation: AI drafts require RT review, correction, and sign-off. Invest in EHR optimization for your department's RT flowsheets (build best-practice advisories for lung-protective ventilation compliance; automate ABG-to-ventilator-change documentation pathways): the RT who drives institutional documentation efficiency becomes a valued operations partner, not just a clinical worker.

AI is sitting alongside you hereManage sleep therapy patients using AI-augmented remote monitoring, reviewing AirView cloud dashboard data for CPAP-treated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients (residual AHI, leak rate, usage hours, pressure trends)

Manage sleep therapy patients using AI-augmented remote monitoring, reviewing AirView cloud dashboard data for CPAP-treated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients (residual AHI, leak rate, usage hours, pressure trends); using ResMed Smart Comfort AI recommendations to configure personalized comfort settings (pressure ramp, EPR, humidity) for new AirSense 11 patients without requiring office visits; monitoring Propeller Health dashboard for COPD and asthma patients (controller adherence trends, rescue inhaler frequency, early exacerbation risk alerts); adjusting CPAP/BiPAP prescriptions based on remote data and communicating changes to the prescribing physician; contacting patients flagged by AI for low adherence or elevated rescue-inhaler use to provide telehealth coaching.[7],[10]

Where your edge is

ResMed AirView, Smart Comfort, and Propeller Health collectively shift sleep and chronic respiratory disease management toward remote asynchronous monitoring: an RT managing a panel of hundreds of CPAP patients via dashboard review is operating at a fundamentally different scale than one requiring office visits for every adjustment. Lean into this capacity expansion: develop competency in OSA comorbidity management (hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart failure overlap), pursue AARC Certified Respiratory Therapist in Sleep Medicine (RRT-SDS) credential, and position yourself as the clinical authority who interprets AI-generated adherence and pressure data in the context of the full patient history. The RTs who master AI-assisted remote patient monitoring workflows will own the fastest-growing segment of the respiratory therapy market, driven by aging population, obesity-related OSA surge, and the proven cost-reduction potential of proactive CPAP management.

AI is sitting alongside you hereConduct pulmonary function testing (PFT) and interpret AI-assisted diagnostic results, performing spirometry (FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, DLCO), body plethysmography, and bronchoprovocation testing per ATS/ERS standards

Conduct pulmonary function testing (PFT) and interpret AI-assisted diagnostic results, performing spirometry (FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, DLCO), body plethysmography, and bronchoprovocation testing per ATS/ERS standards; applying quality control criteria for maneuver acceptability and reproducibility; reviewing AI-generated PFT interpretive suggestions (from platforms achieving 82% diagnostic accuracy vs. pulmonologists' 44.6% in recent studies) against raw waveform data and patient clinical context; reviewing chest X-ray AI abnormality detection output (Lunit INSIGHT CXR4: 12 abnormality types, 99.7% sensitivity) for radiographic findings relevant to respiratory diagnosis and therapy planning; synthesizing PFT and imaging findings into therapy and follow-up recommendations.[3],[11]

Tools picking this up
Where your edge is

AI spirometry interpretation and chest X-ray analysis are among the most advanced AI augmentation tools in respiratory care, published studies show AI spirometry interpretation significantly outperforms pulmonologist baseline on routine pattern recognition tasks. This is not a threat to the RT; it is a capability upgrade: AI pattern recognition surfaces the diagnosis faster, and the RT's value is in the QC review of maneuver quality (is this spirogram effort acceptable?), the integration of PFT results with clinical history, and the communication of findings to physicians and patients in actionable language. Build expertise in advanced PFT interpretation (DLCO for pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema quantification, exercise testing [6MWT, cardiopulmonary exercise testing] for surgical risk stratification) these are domains where RT expertise is indispensable and where AI tools are still in early validation.

Where respiratory therapists go next

Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.

What each move takes

A direction you could grow

Medical and Health Services Managers

Experienced RTs (particularly those who have led protocol development, quality improvement, or department AI tool integration) frequently transition to respiratory care director, director of cardiopulmonary services, or medical and health services manager roles. The clinical credibility, regulatory knowledge (Joint Commission, CMS ventilator standards), and interdisciplinary communication skills developed as an RT map directly onto department leadership. AARC's clinical ladder and APRT pathway explicitly include administrative leadership as an advanced role.

What you'd add
  • · Healthcare operations and department budget management
  • · AARC-aligned quality metrics reporting (ventilator-associated events, SBT rates)
  • · Staff scheduling, productivity benchmarking, and RT department staffing models
  • · Joint Commission respiratory care standards and CMS compliance
  • · Lean/Six Sigma quality improvement methodology
What it takesSome new skills to pick up
Tools of the era

How has the work of respiratory therapists changed since 1928?

The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.

  • Iron lung (negative-pressure tank ventilator, Drinker-Shaw 1928, Emerson 1931)

    The iron lung was developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw at Harvard University in 1928 and improved by John Haven Emerson in 1931. It saved patients with polio-induced respiratory paralysis by enclosing the body in a sealed metal cylinder and alternating the internal pressure to force the lungs to breathe. The machine was heavy, expensive, and required constant monitoring: the patient could not be repositioned easily, secretions had to be cleared through portholes, and any mechanical failure was immediately life-threatening. The workers who operated these machines were the first respiratory therapy workforce: they transported tanks between hospital wards, monitored pressure cycling, and cleared airway secretions manually. The polio epidemic of 1952, with 52,628 US cases, placed tank ventilators in every major hospital and created institutional demand for dedicated inhalation technicians that outlasted the polio era itself.

    Effect on the work

    The iron lung created the profession from nothing: before it, oxygen therapy was a nursing side task. By the late 1950s, the US had hundreds of trained inhalation therapy technicians whose skills transferred directly to the positive-pressure ventilators that replaced the iron lung.

  • Bird Mark 7 positive-pressure respirator (IPPB era, 1955-1975)

    Forrest Bird, a former U.S. Army aviator, developed the Bird Mark 7 respirator around 1954-1955 and formally announced it in the June 1958 issue of the Inhalation Therapy journal. The Mark 7 was the first lightweight portable positive-pressure breathing machine: pneumatically driven, requiring no electrical connection, and operable by a single trained technician at the bedside. It delivered intermittent positive-pressure breathing (IPPB) and aerosolized medications simultaneously, replacing the glass nebulizers and rubber oxygen masks that had preceded it. The Bird Mark 7 made the inhalation therapist indispensable to hospital respiratory care: only therapists were trained to set up, calibrate, and troubleshoot these machines. By the 1960s, IPPB therapy was prescribed for nearly every pulmonary patient in American hospitals, driving rapid expansion of training programs and workforce size. The IPPB era ended when randomized studies in the 1970s showed that IPPB delivered 35% less medication to the lungs than simpler nebulizer therapy, causing insurance companies and hospital administrators to question its cost-effectiveness.

    Effect on the work

    The Bird Mark 7 era roughly tripled the inhalation therapy workforce between 1960 and the early 1970s, as IPPB therapy was prescribed at high rates across medical and surgical wards.

  • Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and volume-cycled ICU ventilators

    CPAP was introduced in 1971 by George Gregory at UCSF as a treatment for neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, demonstrating that continuous positive pressure could keep premature lungs open without full mechanical ventilation. Simultaneously, volume-cycled ventilators (Engstrom, Bennett MA-1, Bear Medical) replaced the earlier pressure-cycled Bird Mark 7 in ICUs, providing more precise control of tidal volume and respiratory rate for critically ill adults. This era defined the modern respiratory therapy scope of practice: therapists were now essential members of the intensive care team, managing ventilator settings, performing arterial blood gas analysis, and titrating FiO2 and PEEP for ARDS patients. The ICU became the primary workplace for the profession, a shift that remains true today (most RTs work in acute care hospital settings).

    Effect on the work

    The ICU ventilator era professionalized the workforce: the National Board for Respiratory Therapy (NBRT) was established in 1974, the Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) credential was created, and training programs shifted from hospital-based apprenticeship to community-college associate degree programs. Workforce growth continued steadily through the 1970s and 1980s.

  • CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea (Sullivan 1981, ResMed commercialization 1989)

    Colin Sullivan at the University of Sydney published the first use of continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnea in 1981, using a vacuum-cleaner motor blowing air through a foam mask. ResMed was founded in 1989 to commercialize CPAP devices, and by the 1990s home CPAP therapy was becoming a standard treatment for the tens of millions of Americans with moderate-to-severe OSA. This opened an entirely new practice setting for RTs: the home medical equipment (HME) and sleep medicine sector. RT roles expanded to include sleep study patient titration, CPAP setup and education, adherence monitoring, and pressure adjustment for an increasingly large population of non-acute patients. The sleep apnea epidemic (driven by rising obesity rates) is now one of the primary structural growth drivers for the profession.

    Effect on the work

    Sleep medicine and home CPAP care added a significant ambulatory and home-based segment to the RT workforce. By the 2010s, RTs in HME companies and pulmonology/sleep medicine practices represented a meaningful share of the total profession, diversifying the historically hospital-only occupational footprint.

  • Microprocessor ventilators and protocol-driven liberation (Puritan Bennett 7200, ARDS Network protocols)

    The Puritan Bennett 7200 (1985) and its successors introduced microprocessor control to ICU ventilators, enabling pressure-support ventilation, synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV), and the first automated alarm systems. The ARDS Network lung-protective ventilation protocol (2000), showing that low tidal volumes reduced ICU mortality, made evidence-based ventilator management a core RT competency. RT-driven weaning protocols reduced time to extubation from several days to several days compared to physician-directed weaning, a result that fundamentally repositioned the RT from equipment operator to clinical decision-maker. This era also saw the spread of pulmonary function testing suites, in which RTs performed spirometry, body plethysmography, and bronchoprovocation testing as diagnostic specialists.

    Effect on the work

    Protocol-driven respiratory care increased the scope and professional authority of RTs substantially, enabling hospitals to use RT-led protocols in place of physician-order-by-order ventilator management. This efficiency gain expanded the RT's clinical role without reducing headcount.

  • Cloud-based remote CPAP monitoring (ResMed AirView, Propeller Health connected inhalers)

    ResMed launched AirView in 2014, enabling RTs to monitor CPAP therapy compliance, residual apnea-hypopnea index, leak rate, and pressure trends for hundreds of patients remotely via a cloud dashboard, eliminating the need for routine in-office visits for therapy adjustments. Propeller Health (acquired by ResMed in 2018) added Bluetooth-connected inhaler sensors for asthma and COPD patients, surfacing controller adherence and rescue inhaler patterns with early exacerbation risk alerts. These platforms transformed sleep and chronic disease management from an episodic clinic visit model to a continuous remote monitoring model: a single RT could effectively manage a panel of hundreds of home CPAP or inhaler patients asynchronously. This is the inflection point where the RT's work began to scale through digital platforms rather than purely through additional headcount.

    Effect on the work

    Remote monitoring platforms shifted a significant share of RT activity from in-person clinic visits to dashboard review and remote outreach, increasing panel capacity per therapist. This efficiency gain partially offset demographic growth in CPAP and COPD patient populations.

  • AI-driven clinical decision support and closed-loop ventilation (Etiometry T3, INTELLiVENT-ASV, ResMed Smart Comfort)

    The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated both the demand for respiratory therapists and the deployment of AI ventilator tools. Hamilton Medical's INTELLiVENT-ASV closed-loop mode, which automatically adjusts respiratory rate, tidal volume, PEEP, FiO2, and weaning transitions in real time, achieved lung-protective ventilation targets in 65% of COVID-19 ARDS patients versus 38% with conventional modes. Etiometry T3 received its tenth FDA 510(k) clearance in February 2025 and demonstrated in clinical studies that AI-assisted spontaneous breathing trial protocols reduced postoperative ventilation time by 30%, shortened ICU stays by 20%, and cut extubation failure from 13% to 0%. ResMed Smart Comfort received FDA clearance in December 2025 as the first AI-enabled device that automatically recommends personalized CPAP comfort settings without manual RT input, trained on 100 million nights of de-identified sleep data. The published clinical literature characterizes this era consistently as augmentation: AI systems surface recommendations and flag risks that the RT adjudicates, maintaining professional authority and licensure accountability. Only 8.9% of RTs described AI as "a big part of what we do" as of 2024 (PMC11405306), suggesting the adoption curve is still in early stages.

    Effect on the work

    AI closed-loop ventilation tools reduce the average number of manual ventilator adjustments per weaning episode, freeing RT time for higher-acuity patient oversight. Remote AI monitoring platforms (Etiometry, Philips Capsule Surveillance) enable RTs to manage larger ICU panels without missing deterioration events. Net employment effect is positive: BLS projects +12% growth through 2034.

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Respiratory Therapists employment and pay by year

On record since1943
Latest US employment139,790 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Latest US median pay$82,280 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Outlook+8.5% by 2035Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35Official statisticReport an error
View all 27 years of cited US data, each linked to its source
YearUS employmentAnnual pay (median unless marked)SourceReport
19605,000n/aEst., AARC Timeline Researched contextReport
197025,000n/aEst., UNMC Wigton Heritage Center Researched contextReport
1975n/a$10,500Est., University of Missouri Libraries Researched contextReport
2000110,000$37,680Est., O*NET 29-1126.00 (employment) Researched contextBLS OEWS 2000 (pay) Official statisticReport
200387,180$41,150BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statisticReport
200491,350$43,140BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statisticReport
200595,320$45,140BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statisticReport
200699,330$47,420BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statisticReport
2007101,180$50,070BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statisticReport
2008103,870$52,200BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statisticReport
2009107,270$53,330BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statisticReport
2010109,270$54,280BLS OEWS May 2010 Official statisticReport
2011113,980$55,250BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statisticReport
2012116,960$55,870BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statisticReport
2013118,640$56,290BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statisticReport
2014119,410$56,730BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statisticReport
2015120,330$57,790BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statisticReport
2016126,770$58,670BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statisticReport
2017128,250$59,710BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statisticReport
2018129,600$60,280BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statisticReport
2019132,090$61,330BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statisticReport
2020131,890$62,810BLS OEWS May 2020 Official statisticReport
2021133,410$61,830BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statisticReport
2022129,910$70,540BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statisticReport
2023129,750$77,960BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statisticReport
2024136,420$80,450BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statisticReport
2025139,790$82,280BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statisticReport
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