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Exercise physiologist salary

Open exercise physiologist jobs post a median of $31.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $28.25–$36.25: about $65,500 a year full time. Measured from 64 jobs at 45 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$31.50
Median posted /hr
$28–$36
Middle half /hr
$65,500
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$28.59
BLS median /hr
May 2025

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What exercise physiologists are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 64 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $14.70, the highest $60.40.

Posted on open jobs

$28.25–$36.25/hr

Middle half of 56 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $31.50. 41% of the 157 open exercise physiologist jobs state an hourly rate.

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Exercise physiologist pay by employer

What each employer posts for exercise physiologists, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Advocate Health$31.75$24.10–$37.954
Cedars-Sinai$46$35.98–$55.773
HealthPartners$34.75$27.86–$44.353
Providence$31.50$20.43–$42.733
U.S. Physical Therapy$37.50$33–$422
CommonSpirit Health$37$24–$53.362
Endeavor Health$33.75$26.61–$40.712
UnitedHealth Group$33.50$24–$432
Boston Medical Center$30.50$24.04–$37.742
MU Health Care$28.50$22–$34.742
Adventist HealthCare$28$23.25–$32.552
OSF HealthCare$27.25$23.58–$31.362
Mass General Brigham$27$20.99–$33.372
Ascension$25.75$19.22–$31.242
Sutter Health$51.75$43.15–$60.401
Columbia Memorial Hospital$45$36.10–$54.061
Scripps Health$42.75$34.97–$50.691
WhidbeyHealth$40.25$29.25–$51.091
Montefiore Nyack$37.50$36–$391
Beth Israel Lahey Health$37$26.47–$47.591
Inspira Health$37$30.44–$43.471
Loma Linda University Health$37$31.62–$42.531
Allina Health$36.75$31.07–$42.591
MarinHealth$36.75$32.69–$40.871
RWJBarnabas Health$36.25$30.54–$41.711
Hillsboro Medical Center$33.75$27.80–$39.461
Sentara Health$32.75$26.10–$39.381
UPMC$32.50$24.32–$40.541
Auburn Community Hospital$31.50$30–$331
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$31.50$28.05–$35.051
Essentia Health$31.50$25.22–$37.831
Carle Health$31.25$23.43–$39.131
Montrose Regional Health$31$23.92–$38.271
Northwestern Medicine$31$26–$361
Inova$30$22.76–$37.101
Mercyhealth$30$23.18–$36.911
MemorialCare$29$291
National Jewish Health$29$25.04–$33.111
UVA Health$29$21.61–$36.501
Emory Healthcare$28$27.931

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Exercise physiologist pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$37.50$36.75–$46$30.02 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Illinois$31.50$30.50–$33.75$28.91 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Best-paid open exercise physiologist jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Exercise physiologist jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Exercise Physiologists (29-1128)$20.56 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)$23.86 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)$28.59 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)$32.32 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)$38.73 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)8,560 (source: BLS OEWS, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($31.50) is $2.91 above the BLS median ($28.59 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Exercise Physiologists, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Exercise physiologist salary: common questions

How much does an exercise physiologist make an hour?

Open exercise physiologist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $31.50, with the middle half between $28.25–$36.25 (64 jobs from 45 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $28.59/hr ($59,460 a year) for exercise physiologists in May 2025.

How much does an exercise physiologist make a year?

At the posted median of $31.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $65,500, and the middle half to $58,800 to $75,400. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 64 of 157 open exercise physiologist jobs (41%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Exercise Physiologists (SOC 29-1128), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Exercise Physiologists by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Exercise Physiologists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Exercise physiologist salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/exercise-physiologist

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