According to the AMTA 2009 Massage Industry Report, the average number of hours massage therapists work in their profession stayed virtually the same from 19.4 hours in 2007 to 19.5 hours in 2008. The average hours massage therapists spend actually performing (paid) massage also stayed roughly the same at 15.0 hours per week in 2008 vs. 15.1 hours in 2007.
Consistent with the 2007 findings, massage therapists consider a full-time practice in this profession to be, on average, 27 hours per week.
Most likely, the time therapists spend on other business tasks such as billing, bookkeeping, maintaining equipment and marketing their practice accounts for the difference between total number of hours massage therapists work and the number of hours for which they report getting paid. Massage therapists spend 28 percent of their work day on business related tasks, while approximately 72 percent of their work day is spent actually performing massages.
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