Occupational Therapist (OT)
Listed compensation
$85k-$116k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation
- Position: Occupational Therapist (OT)Location: West Orange, NJSchedule: Monday - Friday 7:15 am - 3:15 pm (8a-4p on weekend/holiday)
- Compensation: $84,500 - $115,928.49 a Year(Based on Experience)
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.
We Support Your Career Growth and Personal Well-being
Start Strong: Extensive and thorough Occupational Therapist (OT) 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, and dental plan offerings
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO 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
As a OT you will evaluate 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.
- Evaluates assigned patients and establishes appropriate treatment goals and treatment programs.
- Participate in discharge planning including placement, patient and family education, and adaptive equipment
Minimum Requirements
- Current state licensure or eligibility for state licensure as an Occupational Therapist
- Certified BLS
- Additional Data
- Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In New Jersey, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$100k (154 salary observations; 491 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (4,667 salary observations; 26,845 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 New Jersey is 108.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$100k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $92k in an average-cost state. 63.8% of New Jersey clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| New Jersey vs national | $100k median in New Jersey | $97k nationally (+3%)154 state / 4,667 national salary observations |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$92k in purchasing power | New Jersey index 108.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Occupational Therapy listings in New Jersey | 161 active | 9,336 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 49% no call · 62% no weekends47 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | New Jersey Occupational Therapist listings: 13% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 10% offer loan repayment187 active listings, Oct 2026 |
| Occupational Therapy pay trend | +2.7% vs prior quarter | —through Sep 2026 |
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