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St. Joseph's Health
Paterson, New Jersey

Therapist Respiratory Registered- FT Evenings

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$33.15-$46.41/hr

The week · per this posting

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Posted 4mo ago

Job Description

St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.

Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)

  • Competitive salary*
  • Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
  • 403b retirement plan options with company match**
  • Health & Wellness*
  • Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
  • PTO, and paid holidays
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • LTD: Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance Options
  • Onsite Day care Program

*Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

**403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

Pay transparency:  St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law.  The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc.” The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.

The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.

The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St.

Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.

Key Responsibilities

Provide specialized respiratory care within an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to treat complex and routine respiratory cases.

Requirements

Must be a Registered Respiratory Therapist. Candidates should possess the relevant experience and qualifications necessary to work in a high-acuity hospital environment.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Respiratory TherapyPatient CareClinical AssessmentEmergency CareTrauma Care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Therapist Respiratory Registered- FT Evenings at St. Joseph's Health a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Counseling — ranked against 13,245 active Counseling listings on WeekdayDoc.

Respiratory Therapy — Counselor Career Context

St. Joseph's Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 72/100, 40 active listings.

Of the 50 active Respiratory Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 68% are remote, 26% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for New Jersey is 108.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$83k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $76k in an average-cost state. 63.8% of New Jersey clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution40 jobs · 18 employers

13
<$90k
7
$90k-105k
9
$105k-120k
9
$120k-135k
2
$141k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks39 jobs · 18 employers

401k / retirement match
100% this job
Sign-on bonus
46%
CME allowance
31%
Loan repayment
15% this job
PSLF eligible
5% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.3this job 7.2
Better work-life than 80% of Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 13,245 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Paterson

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$503k
Typical market rent
$1,878/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
State income tax
Up to 10.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About St. Joseph's Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Paterson, NJ
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary
Health, dental, Rx and vision plans
403b retirement plan options with company match
Health & Wellness programs
Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
PTO and paid holidays
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Assistance Program