Respiratory Care Therapist
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Respiratory Care Therapist degree recipients are Boise City, ID, Indianapolis city (balance), IN, and Ontario, CA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Respiratory Care Therapist is a associates degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Respiratory Care Therapist and the types of students that study this field. Boise State University awards the most degrees in Respiratory Care Therapist in the US, but San Joaquin Valley College-Rancho Cordova and Educational Technical College-Recinto de Bayamon have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist.
Tuition costs for Respiratory Care Therapist majors are, on average, $5,352 for in-state public colleges, and $26,930 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Respiratory Care Therapist programs are Public, 2-year institutions (225 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 2-year (3,139 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist, is Public, 2-year (3,139 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Respiratory Care Therapist programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Boise State University has the most Respiratory Care Therapist degree recipients, with 178 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist.
Out of all institutions that offer Respiratory Care Therapist programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, San Joaquin Valley College-Rancho Cordova has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist, with 77%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Respiratory Care Therapist.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Health graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
The industry that employs the most Health majors is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers.
The average salary for Health majors is $81,847 and the most common occupations are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Health majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Health majors, by number of employees, are Registered nurses, Pharmacists, and Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Health majors working as Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives, Nurse anesthetists, and Audiologists.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Health majors are Surgeons, Physicians, and Chief executives & legislators.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The largest single share of Health graduates go on to work as Registered nurses (36.7%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Health by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Health majors, by number of employees, are General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, Outpatient care centers, and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Health majors, by average wage, are Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers, Farm supplies merchant wholesalers, and Pharmaceutical & medicine manufacturing.
The number of Health graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 3.68%, from 4.3M in 2020 to 4.46M in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Health graduates by share is General medical and surgical hospitals, and specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, followed by Outpatient care centers. This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Health.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Health majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Health majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Health. The most common ages of employees with this major are 30 and 31 years old, which represent 2.98% and 2.93% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Respiratory Care Therapist are Associates Degree, Bachelors Degree, and 2 to 4 Year Postsecondary Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Respiratory Care Therapist.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Respiratory Care Therapist for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Associates Degree recipients in Respiratory Care Therapist.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.11 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (199,567 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Respiratory Care Therapist field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Respiratory Care Therapist majors need many skills, but most especially Active Listening. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Respiratory Care Therapist majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, Persuasion, Active Listening, Speaking, Coordination, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Time Management, Management of Personnel Resources, Equipment Selection, Reading Comprehension, Programming, Critical Thinking, Negotiation, Writing, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring, Complex Problem Solving, Operation Monitoring, Systems Analysis, Science, Systems Evaluation, Equipment Maintenance, Mathematics, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Repairing, Quality Control Analysis, Operations Analysis, and Installation.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Respiratory Care Therapist majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Active Listening, Speaking, Social Perceptiveness, Reading Comprehension, Service Orientation, Critical Thinking, Writing, Coordination, Time Management, Active Learning, Persuasion, Judgment and Decision Making, Instructing, Complex Problem Solving, Monitoring, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Mathematics, Science, Operation Monitoring, Management of Financial Resources, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Programming, Operation and Control, Troubleshooting, Technology Design, Equipment Selection, Equipment Maintenance, Operations Analysis, Repairing, and Installation are the three most important skills for people in the field.
