Speech Language Pathologist

Speech-Language PathologistIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

  • Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation
  • Temple, Texas
  • Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)

Full Time

Our Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital is committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to best address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.

  • At our company, we support your career growth and personal well-being.
  • Start Strong: Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
  • Advance Your Career: Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities
  • Elevate Your Skills: Clinical ladder program.
  • Ease the Burden: Student debt benefit program
  • Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, employee assistance program (EAP), and dental plan offerings
  • Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO and Paid Sick Time to maintain a healthy work-life balance
  • Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection
  • Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 nationwide committed to providing exceptional care.

Responsibilities

Evaluates all assigned patients and develops, implements and modifies treatment plan in accordance with the patient’s need and physician direction.

Responsible for delegation and direction of all discipline-specific therapy services for those assigned patients.

  • Ensures the design of functional treatment programs allowing for an effective return to community activities.
  • Serves as an educator of patients, families, students, co-workers and self.

Performs other professional duties associated with the care of the patient, development of discipline-specific therapy services and design of program delivery.

Coordinate treatment program in conjunction with other clinical/therapeutic services as available community resources.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Current state licensure as Speech Language Pathologist required.
  • Certified CLS or completion in first 90 days of employment required

Preferred Qualifications

Current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language & Hearing Association preferred

  • BSWIR - Inpatient
  • Additional Data
  • Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Patient evaluationTreatment planningClinical documentationPatient educationBrain injury rehabilitationSpinal cord injury careOrthopedic rehabilitationAmputation careTrauma careInterdisciplinary coordination

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 50 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 42% have no call, 54% require no weekends.

Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Speech Language Pathologist Jobs

41 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution33 jobs · 30 employers

8
<$100k
9
$100k-120k
6
$120k-140k
10
$140k-160k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks34 jobs · 30 employers

401k / retirement match
91% this job
CME allowance
59% this job
Sign-on bonus
15%
Loan repayment
9%
Relocation assistance
9%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$61.5-$75.75/hr
#2

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$65-$75/hr
#3

Speech Therapist

$65-$75/hr
#4

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$68-$75/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% of Speech Language Pathology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,951 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Temple

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$230k
Typical market rent
$1,381/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
91.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Killeen-Temple, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Baylor Scott and White Institute for Rehabilitation - Temple

Hospitals and Health Care
Dallas, Texas
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Tuition reimbursement
Continuing education opportunities
Clinical ladder program
Student debt benefit program
Medical/RX insurance
Health insurance
Vision insurance
Employee assistance program