Healthcare Support

Speech Therapy Assistants

SOC 31-2022

Help speech-language pathologists deliver therapy under their direction.

The job

Median pay

$35k

$30k to $39k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+4.0% projected

Openings a year

BLS projection

Typical education

Associate's

Our model

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

9/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

14th pct

More exposed than 14% of occupations · modeled estimate · 8th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

52/100

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Key skills

Active Listening
Monitoring
Reading Comprehension
Writing
Speaking
Critical Thinking

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	7,330	0.4	1.3×	$38k
Texas	5,710	0.4	1.3×	$32k
New York	4,950	0.5	1.6×	$35k
New Jersey	2,230	0.5	1.7×	$34k
Michigan	1,810	0.4	1.3×	$29k
Louisiana	1,380	0.7	2.3×	$22k
Arizona	1,340	0.4	1.3×	$35k
Virginia	1,260	0.3	1.0×	$33k
Florida	1,210	0.1	0.4×	$35k
Georgia	1,200	0.2	0.8×	$31k

All 51 states

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Pennsylvania	1,200	0.2	0.6×	$36k
Utah	1,130	0.7	2.1×	$29k
Oregon	1,090	0.6	1.8×	$36k
North Carolina	1,050	0.2	0.7×	$35k
Massachusetts	1,020	0.3	0.9×	$37k
Nevada	900	0.6	1.9×	$32k
Indiana	860	0.3	0.9×	$35k
Wisconsin	840	0.3	0.9×	$37k
Maryland	830	0.3	1.0×	$35k
Ohio	760	0.1	0.4×	$37k
Washington	760	0.2	0.7×	$40k
Alabama	750	0.4	1.1×	$27k
Missouri	750	0.3	0.8×	$29k
Tennessee	710	0.2	0.7×	$30k
Illinois	680	0.1	0.4×	$37k
Nebraska	670	0.7	2.1×	$28k
Idaho	540	0.6	2.0×	$29k
Connecticut	520	0.3	1.0×	$36k
Kansas	440	0.3	1.0×	$25k
Iowa	390	0.3	0.8×	$29k
Oklahoma	370	0.2	0.7×	$28k
South Carolina	370	0.2	0.5×	$33k
Colorado	360	0.1	0.4×	$42k
Delaware	300	0.6	2.0×	$34k
Rhode Island	280	0.6	1.8×	$31k
Mississippi	270	0.2	0.8×	$27k
New Mexico	240	0.3	0.9×	$32k
Wyoming	240	0.9	2.8×	$30k
West Virginia	170	0.2	0.8×	$35k
Arkansas	160	0.1	0.4×	$29k
Kentucky	160	0.1	0.3×	$35k
Minnesota	150	0.1	0.2×	$42k
New Hampshire	130	0.2	0.6×	$40k
North Dakota	120	0.3	0.9×	$38k
Alaska	110	0.3	1.1×	$56k
Montana	110	0.2	0.7×	$39k
Maine	90	0.1	0.5×	$40k
Vermont	87	0.3	0.9×	$42k~
South Dakota	70	0.2	0.5×	$31k
Hawaii	60	0.1	0.3×	$34k
Washington DC	30	0.0	0.1×	$39k

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ6,030 jobs · $35k median
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,720 jobs · $37k median
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,280 jobs · $33k median
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,070 jobs · $35k median
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX990 jobs · $36k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD990 jobs · $32k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH840 jobs · $37k median
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI800 jobs · $29k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.