5 of the Most Popular Types of Massage Assistant Jobs in 2026

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Top Types Of Massage Assistant Jobs

• Hospital Massage Therapy

  Salary range: $47,000 - $92,000

  Hospital massage therapy jobs focus on providing massage therapy to patients in a hospital setting. As a hospital massage therapist, you provide treatment for patients under the direction of a physician, and your duties vary according to the needs of the patient. You provide massage techniques for relaxation, healing, pain relief, or other medically significant reasons. Because you work in a hospital setting, your responsibilities include operating under hospital safety regulations and performing your body work to the specifications of the doctor or healthcare professional overseeing patient treatment.

• Hospital Massage Therapist

  Salary range: $47,000 - $92,000

  The job duties of a hospital massage therapist focus on providing massage therapy services to patients in a hospital setting. Your responsibilities may require you to perform treatments using a variety of massage techniques. You may massage bedridden patients or post-surgery patients to improve circulation. You may provide press point therapy to relieve pain or tissue massage to help a patient with injury rehabilitation or muscle relaxation. A hospital massage therapist may also use touch therapy or massage techniques to ease a patient's anxiety or stress.

• Massage Therapist

  Salary range: $47,000 - $92,000

  A professional massage therapist manipulates body tissue using physical touch to help their clients relieve pain, reduce stress, and/or reach a more relaxed state. While there are a variety of massage therapy styles, all are used to increase and promote physical and emotional well-being.

• Medical Assistant

  Salary range: $35,500 - $45,500

  Whether medical assistants work in a large hospital or a small doctor's office, their job duties remain the same. As a medical assistant, you may greet patients when they first arrive, ensure patient forms are filled out correctly, answer phone calls, and schedule appointments. Some also handle billing and insurance claims. In the exam rooms, medical assistants may take vital signs, administer medication or vaccinations, describe procedures, change wound dressings, document results from patient sample testing, submit prescriptions, and prepare the beds for the next patient. In a hospital, medical assistants tend to the needs of the staff and patients in their particular unit.

• No Experience Massage Therapist

  Salary range: $47,000 - $92,000

  No Experience Massage Therapist is a more unusual job search query but still may give you interesting job results. Most salaries for No Experience Massage Therapist jobs pay between $47,000 (25th percentile) and $92,000 (75th percentile) annually. Currently, there are not many open positions nationwide for No Experience Massage Therapist job searches hiring now on ZipRecruiter. You can take a look at what is available and find similar job searches in this list.