2021 Annual Salary, Salary Range, and Highest Paying States and Industries

Table of contents
  1. Average salary
  2. Starting salary
  3. Salary rank
  4. Salary range
  5. Highest paying states
  6. Highest paying industries

Average salary

Starting salary

Entry-level annual salary

Entry-level Art Therapists with little to no experience can expect to make anywhere between $31,450 to $37,570 per year or $15 to $18 per hour. Similar to any other job, their salary will increase as they gain experience.

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Salary rank

We wanted to make it easy for our readers to compare the salary of Art Therapists to all the other careers out there. So we created Salary Rank. We compared the salary of all careers then we gave them a rank of A, B, C, or D depending on where their average salary sit in comparison to other careers.

Salary range

Level Hourly Annual
Highest (Top 10%) $38 $79,250
Senior (Top 25%) $30 $62,440
Middle (Mid 50%) $23 $47,710
Junior (Bottom 25%) $18 $37,570
No experience (Bottom 10%) $15 $31,450

Highest paying states

State Hourly Annual
DC $38 $78,630
CA $37 $77,960
CT $30 $61,570
NJ $29 $61,090
OR $28 $58,420
NY $28 $58,010
AR $26 $54,600
NH $26 $54,020
IA $26 $53,970
MA $25 $52,390

Another simple way to increase your salary as an Art Therapist is to move to a higher paying state. However moving to a higher paying state like DC doesn't guarantee that you will make more because the expenses at DC might be much higher than where you are currently living at right now.

According to BLS, the highest paid Art Therapists are in the states of DC, CA, CT, NJ and OR.

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