Occupational Therapist / OTR
Listed compensation
$50 per hour
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
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Job Description
Occupational Therapist
- Job Type: Full-time
- Schedule: Flexible Hours
- Setting: Nursing Home, Skilled Nursing Facility
- Location: Oak Crest - DeKalb, IL
- Pay: state range up to $50 per hour (based on experience/location)
Aegis Therapies, one of the nation’s leading providers of rehabilitation and wellness services, is hiring an Occupational Therapist to join our supportive team and reap the benefits of some of the best career advantages in the industry.
Why Aegis Therapies
Career Growth & Development: We invest in your future with specialized, ongoing training, career advancement opportunities and the strongest clinical support in the industry.
Flexibility - Redefining Work-life Balance: We offer you the opportunity to maintain flexibility and a healthy work-life balance, so you never have to choose between your career and the things that make life worth living.
- Impactful Work: Make a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients.
- Supportive Environment: Collaborate with teams that value your expertise and dedication.
Benefits
- Support, local clinical mentorship, clinical education and unlimited CEUs
- Create your own career path: clinically, management, etc.
- Flexible schedule, paid time off, plus one paid CEU day
- Licensure and professional membership reimbursement
- Interdisciplinary collaboration for providing the best patient care
- Medical, dental, vision within 30 days or less
- National opportunity to transfer while maintaining employment status
- Multiple settings nationwide: CCRC, SNF, Assisted Living, Outpatient Clinics, Home Health
- New Grads Welcomed!
- And much more
Qualifications
Current license as an Occupational Therapist or ability to obtain in the state of practice.
If you enjoy working in geriatrics and have a current Occupational Therapy license, we would like to discuss what is most important to you. Aegis Therapies is committed to designing jobs to meet your needs.
Let us help find the career of your dreams! Apply Today.
EEO Statement
Aegis Therapies and its Family of Companies is committed to a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For detailed information on your rights, Click Here OR aegistherapies.com.
Key Responsibilities
Provide occupational therapy services to patients within a nursing home and skilled nursing facility setting. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality patient care and wellness outcomes.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Occupational Therapist Career Context
In Illinois, the Occupational Therapy weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$92k (327 salary observations; 943 listings), vs ~$97k nationally (5,716 salary observations; 28,639 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-01-01 through 2026-11-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$104k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $104k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $104k | Occupational Therapy median $95k (middle half $78k–$105k)22 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Illinois vs national | $92k median in Illinois | $97k nationally (−5%)327 state / 5,716 national salary observations |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$104k in purchasing power | Illinois index 100.0 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Occupational Therapy listings in Illinois | 296 active | 8,930 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 13% remote · 38% no call · 45% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Illinois Occupational Therapist listings: 17% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 14% offer loan repayment355 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Occupational Therapy listings | 3,166 in the last 30 days | 1,614 the 30 days before (+96%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Occupational Therapy pay trend | +3.5% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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