Aquatic Physical Therapist
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Job Description
5-10 hours a week available to do aquatic therapy in Irvine. We will train you. The only qualifications are that you must be a licensed physical therapist and you like the thought of working in the water for 5-10 hours a week.
Key Responsibilities
Provide aquatic physical therapy sessions to patients in a pool setting. Manage a caseload of 5-10 hours per week.
Requirements
Must be a licensed physical therapist. Willingness to work in a water-based environment is required.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Physical Therapist Career Context
Of the 50 active Physical Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 42% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
In California, the Physical Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$117k (1,505 salary observations; 3,866 listings), vs ~$94k nationally (14,723 salary observations; 56,085 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).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Aquatic Physical Therapist at Trinethire a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% in Physical Therapy — ranked against 21,935 active Physical Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc.
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Living in Irvine
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $1.36M
- Typical market rent
- $3,527/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 (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 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.