Why We Publish Our Rates (and Why Most Staffing Companies Won’t)

We publish our rates because you should not have to spend an hour on the phone to learn what a job pays. PT, OT, and SLP visits pay $60, PTA and COTA visits pay $45, and an OASIS Start of Care pays $100. Publishing keeps us honest and saves everyone time.

Pull up the website of almost any therapy staffing company and you will find the same two things: the phrase “competitive rates” and a phone number. What you will almost never find is a number. Ours are printed on our careers page, the same for every therapist, and they have been since the day the page went live. People ask me why I do that, usually with a tone that suggests I have given something away. So here is the whole reasoning, in the open, like the rates.

What does “call for rates” actually mean?

Be honest about what that phrase is. “Call to discuss compensation” means the number depends on you. It means the company wants to hear who you are, how experienced you sound, how much you seem to need the work, and how well you negotiate, before it decides what to offer you.

And think about who that conversation favors. The person on the other end of that call prices therapists every single week. You price yourself maybe a handful of times in a career. That is not a fair fight, and it was never meant to be one. The whole structure exists so that the side with more information keeps the advantage.

I have practiced since 2014, and I have sat on the therapist side of that call. I did not like it then. Owning a company did not change my mind.

Why would a company hide its rates?

I am not naming anyone, and I do not have to, because this is the default across the industry, not a local quirk. The honest reasons rates stay hidden come down to three:

1. Leverage. If you do not know the range, the first number can be the low end of it, with room to climb only if you push.
2. Unequal pay for equal work. Hidden rates let a company pay two therapists differently for the same visit, based on nothing but how each of them negotiated on a phone call.
3. Fear. Published rates can be read by competitors and compared by candidates. Keeping them secret feels safer.

None of those reasons serves the therapist. All three serve the company. That is the tell.

Why do we publish ours?

Because every one of those dynamics disappears the moment the number is public.

It respects your time. You should not need a screening call to learn whether the math of a job can work for your life. Read the rate, run your numbers, and only spend your time on us if it fits. Good therapists are busy. Wasting their evenings on discovery calls that end at a disappointing number is not respect.

The number can stand daylight. I set rates I am willing to defend to a peer’s face: $60 per visit for PT, OT, and SLP, covering regular visits, evals, and discharges. $45 per visit for PTA and COTA. $100 for an OASIS Start of Care, and in the same breath, an OASIS discharge pays the regular $60. If I were embarrassed by those numbers, hiding them would be convenient. I am not, so they are printed.

One rate for everyone. The therapist who negotiates hard and the therapist who hates negotiating earn exactly the same per visit here. The person covering Youngsville earns what the person in New Iberia earns. Nobody gets a worse deal for being polite, and nobody has to wonder what the person next to them got. Pay is paid directly, at the published number, period.

It holds us accountable. Once the rate is public, we cannot dangle one number to get you on the phone and land you at another. The website is the offer. That discipline is good for us, honestly. Companies behave better when their promises are in writing where everyone can see them.

What does publishing cost us?

Fair question, and the answer is: a little, and I will take the trade.

Competitors can read our rate card. Fine. A rate card is the easiest thing in the world to copy; the operation behind it is not. Candidates can comparison-shop us against any number they find elsewhere. Also fine. If a different situation genuinely works better for your life, you should take it, and I would tell you so.

And yes, occasionally somebody sees a bigger headline number somewhere else and never calls. That one stings until you remember the fine print that usually travels with unpublished, negotiated rates. A headline rate is not an effective hourly. What you actually earn depends on how tightly your visits cluster and how much of your day goes to the windshield, and that math is exactly why we publish the rates and the reasoning together in what home health therapists actually earn per visit in Acadiana.

What should you do with a published rate?

Use it the way it is meant to be used: as the starting point for real math instead of a guessing game.

Compare offers on the whole picture: the per-visit rate, how clustered your caseload will be, who handles agency credentialing, and who actually answers when you call. And here is a simple test that costs you nothing: ask any company you are talking to for their rates in writing before a call. Some will send them. Some will insist you hop on the phone first. Both answers tell you something about how the rest of the relationship will go.

Transparency is not a marketing angle for us. It is the policy, because I have been the therapist on the other side of the mystery, and I did not build a company to keep running the same play. The rates are public, the same for everyone, and paid directly.

If those numbers work for your life, apply in two minutes at our careers page. No mystery, no negotiation table, and you will hear from me by the next business day.