Massage Therapist Salaries are usually reported inaccurately by various job sites. Most people who work in a massage job work part time. Most actually start their own massage business so those statistics are not counted.
Salaries start out really low at about $15 an hour. The thing is that you will actually only get that when you have a client. If you don't have a client, you will get paid minimum wage and have to do other duties like cleaning and answering the phone and yes even marketing. You will also only be able to work 25-30 hours tops because of the physical, mental and emotional demands of doing massage. As you get experience you could probably get up to $45 an hour but those jobs are few and far between and are usually a sub-contractor position in which you actually have to find your own clients.
When you work for yourself you can make more money but you are also totally responsible for getting and keeping clients. You have to do that too as an employee so why not reap the benefits! As a self employed massage therapist you can charge $60-$100 an hour and even more if you do injury work or specialize in a specific area. You can even make $100,000 a year as a self employed massage therapist. When you work for yourself you also don't just make the full $60-$100 an hour. You will have expenses that you will have to take out of that.
Despite low paying jobs in the massage profession, you can get higher paying jobs if you do your research before becoming a massage therapist so that you understand what you are getting into. It is much more than just doing massage. Being a massage therapist is 10% about the massage and technique and 90% about you, who you are and how you present yourself as a massage therapist.
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