Home Health Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA)

Physical Therapist AssistantContract

Compensation

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Job Description

Treat home health patients on your schedule, paid per visit, every week.

Suru provides outpatient physical therapy in patients' homes across Southern California. We're looking for licensed PTAs to treat Suru patients near where they live and work.

What the Work Looks Like

You treat follow-up visits in the patient's home. A licensed physical therapist completes the evaluation and plan of care and is available for your questions.

Plans of care are usually 2-3 visits per week for 12 weeks, and are often renewed when continued therapy is appropriate, so you keep patients longer than a typical home health episode.

When a patient near you needs visits, the Suru app notifies you. You choose which patients to accept and set visit times directly with the patient.

Suru handles intake, insurance, the evaluation, and billing.

Routine visit notes take about a minute: dictate by voice, review, and submit in the app.

Pay

  • Paid per completed visit, comparable to home health.
  • Direct deposit to your bank every week.

Requirements

  • Active California PTA license
  • Home health experience preferred
  • A local business license (an LLC is not required)
  • Work as a 1099 independent contractor

How to Start

Apply here, then finish onboarding in the Suru app or at app.gosuru.com: your license, service area, availability, and desired rate. Once you're approved, you'll see available patients in your area.

Key Responsibilities

Provide follow-up physical therapy visits to patients in their homes according to a licensed physical therapist's evaluation and plan of care. Coordinate visit times with patients, document visits in the Suru app, and address questions with the supervising physical therapist.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Patient CareTreatment PlanningClinical DocumentationVoice DictationPatient CommunicationTime Management

Physical Therapist Career Context

In California, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$117k (1,368 salary observations; 4,141 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (13,279 salary observations; 60,551 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Physical Therapy market look like in California?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedPhysical Therapy median $80k (middle half $50k–$80k)25 comparable listings, Oct 2026
California vs national$117k median in California$94k nationally (+24%)1,368 state / 13,279 national salary observations
Cost of livingCalifornia index 110.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Physical Therapy listings in California1,734 active21,900 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedCalifornia Physical Therapist listings: 19% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 9% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top contract/1099 PTA Jobs

17 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

15 jobs · 7 employers
4
<$80k
7
$80k-85k
1
$87k
2
$94k
1
$100k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

17 jobs · 7 employers
401k / retirement match
94%
Sign-on bonus
41%
CME allowance
41%
Loan repayment
29%
Relocation assistance
24%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$40-$48/hr
#2

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$40-$45/hr
#3

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 4.8
Better work-life than 50% of Physical Therapist Assistant listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 4,946 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Suru In-Home Physical Therapy logo

About Suru In-Home Physical Therapy

Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists
Santa Ana, California

Benefits & Perks

Flexible schedule
Weekly direct deposit
Paid per completed visit

Living in Irvine

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.36M
Typical market rent
$3,604/mo
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.