City of Boston / Special Education / Occupational Therapist
Job-title file
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
87 employees hold this title in Special Education. Median total compensation for the role is $118,819, above the department median of $67,307.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 87 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Occupational Therapists — about 4,790 people — is $101,940. Special Education pays a median base salary of $122,787 for this role, 20% above that figure — about the 85th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Occupational Therapists across every employer in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Special Education’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Occupational Therapists — about 162,450 people — is $100,330. Special Education’s median base salary is 22% above that national figure, about the 81st percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 80 of 87 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Special Education is $118,819, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Occupational Therapist is held in 2 City of Boston departments. In Special Education, the median of $118,819 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Occupational Therapist role in other City of Bostondepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 20 jurisdictions. In City of Boston, the median of $120,013 ranks #8 of 20. See Occupational Therapist across all of City of Boston →
Median total compensation for comparable Occupational Therapistroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Occupational Therapist/Special Education
Source-specific fields
Stephanie Fitzpatrick works as a Occupational Therapist for Special Education. Stephanie earned $16,547 in 2024.
Occupational Therapist/Special Education
Source-specific fields
At Special Education, Kelsey Hughes serves as a Occupational Therapist. Their 2024 pay totaled $16,012.