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What music therapists make
Typical
$77,930
New graduate
$46,540
Senior or private practice
$152,530
The published median is $77,930 a year, with the bottom tenth at $46,540 and the top tenth at $152,530. Read that top number carefully: the federal survey does not count music therapists on their own, it files them inside a residual group called Therapists, All Other, which also holds better paid clinical roles. A new graduate in a school or hospice job should plan around the bottom of this range, not the middle.