# US employment in offices of other health practitioners rose 21.1% from November 2022 to 1,355,200 in August 2026, its series high

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20260801-physical-therapist-1
Date: 2026-08-01 · Stage: Labour impact
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/physical-therapist

## Scope

NAICS 6213, offices of other health practitioners, all employees, seasonally adjusted. This industry contains physical, occupational and speech therapy together with chiropractic, optometry and podiatry, so it is considerably wider than this occupation and cannot be read as a count of physiotherapists. It counts practice employees, which includes front-desk and billing staff. And it counts jobs rather than sessions or minutes — the pressure this page describes is the fee schedule shortening what a session contains, and a series of headcounts cannot see that at all.

## Source

- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, CES series CES6562130001 (offices of other health practitioners) — https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES6562130001 (primary source)

## What this means

The setting is growing strongly, which places this page's argument correctly: the pressure on this occupation is not a shortage of demand and not a machine doing the treatment. It is what a funded session is allowed to contain, and that is decided by a fee schedule rather than by a technology or by a headcount.

## What it does not show yet

The industry contains chiropractic, optometry and podiatry alongside therapy, so it is far wider than this occupation and is not a count of physiotherapists. It counts jobs rather than sessions or minutes, which means the exact mechanism this page names is outside it.

## How to verify it yourself

Time your last ten assessments. If the average is under fifteen minutes, the fee schedule has already reshaped your job, and it did so without any software being installed.


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