The Ideal Massage Therapy Job is one that pays you what you need to make to take care of yourself and your family. The Ideal Massage Therapy Job should look something like this…
” 1. $25.00 per hour as a full employee.
2. $25-$45 per hour if you are a sub-contractor as you have to pay your own taxes.
3. 25 hours maximum of actual hands on massage or less.
4. 15 minute increments between appointments
5. Consistent hours.
6. Consistent days off.
7. light phone duty, filing duty or other minor cleaning duties if no clients.
8. Health insurance completely paid for and option to add family members for a fee.
9. Incentives for booking repeat customers
10. Vacation pay no less than 2 weeks a year preferably 4 weeks per year (1 per quarter) to help avoid burnout and injuries.
11. Retirement funding of some sort.
For the most part massage therapy jobs are low paying and do not offer many benefits, but it is possible to find jobs that do pay well. The employers show their respect for massage therapists when they pay them a decent wage and provide benefits.
The other part of this is that massage therapists take those low paying jobs because there aren’t many other choices. This is what is really teaching massage employers how to treat us so they don’t do anything better. People stay in these jobs thinking they don’t have a choice- they do but it may be the most difficult choice they have ever made.
How can we as a profession work to create better paying jobs or teach massage therapists how to start their own business where they can charge more and make more and even hire other therapists to work for them?
Can you imagine a massage therapy job that pays $100,000 a year? or even a massage practice that makes that much? The whole thing is that it is possible but the profession needs to change it’s mindset about this. Schools for one usually tell students not to quit their day job when they are just starting out. Just think about what that is telling massage students – you won’t be able to do well, it will take a long time before you are successful – they are as afraid of the massage profession asking for what they want and are promoting the belief that you won’t be able to make it.
As I have been reading the classic book “Think and Grow Rich” it finally dawned on me how the massage profession is really creating their own reality. Napoleon Hill says if you don’t put yourself into your career full force, you won’t have a chance to be successful. He uses the example of teaching his hearing impaired kid to hear by fully believing in the possibility of it. He also uses the example of sending a troop into war on a ship and dropping them off and burning the ships so there is no way home – they don’t have any other choice but to be successful.
What does your ideal massage job look like? Do you have an ideal massage job? Share your stories either way.
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How about a massage therapy job that fulfills YOU, and not just your schedule.
It’s important to know and to hear that not everybody seeks a full time massage career, and for some that six figures comes from related or other income streams while the actual hands on work is perhaps part time.
I guess the point I hope to make is that your massage career may look different than what we’ve seen in the past, and yet you may just come up with the combination that fills your passion, and your bank account!
Don’t be afraid to innovate.
Best of success to you,
~ B ~
rebelmassage@yahoo.com
http://www.massagemsoi.com