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Specialties that raise your pay

• Neurologic music therapy

  Training in using rhythm and music for stroke, brain injury and Parkinson's rehabilitation. Hospitals pay for this.

• Hospice and palliative care

  One of the steadiest employers of music therapists in the country.

• Autism and special education

  School districts write music therapy into individual education plans, which means funded positions.

• A master's degree

  Required for a creative arts therapist license in some states, and for supervising and teaching.