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What chiropractors make

Typical

$79,200

New graduate, employed

$43,460

Busy clinic owner

$146,080

The national median is $79,200 a year, and the bottom tenth start near $43,460. These are the federal wage survey figures for chiropractors who are paid a salary. Owners who keep the profit of their own clinic sit above the survey, and so do the ones who fail at it, in the other direction.