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Occupational Therapy Assistant · Texas
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$1,480
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    Texas COTA/OTA Work Across Metro and Rural Markets

    Texas concentrates occupational therapy assistants more densely than the national norm, and the postings reflect that reach. Travel OTA jobs in Texas appear across the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth hospital and rehab systems, the San Antonio and Austin networks, and skilled nursing, school, and home-health programs in regional markets. State law is clear about practice authority: only clinicians licensed by the Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners may provide occupational therapy here. Texas was not listed as an OT Compact member on the current official roster, so travelers use the TBOTE license route before comparing the state's varied caseload options.

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    Texas OTA Demand, by the Numbers

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    Tiles pair the posted Texas job and pay data with the national OTA employment picture from BLS and the OEWS May 2025 concentration figure.

    6 Occupational Therapy Assistant contracts are open in Texas right now, with +1 added in the last 7 days and 1 already filled. Open postings have been live about 31 days on average.

    6
    Open Occupational Therapy Assistant jobs
    31 days
    Median time active
    +1
    Added last 7 days
    Required
    State license · Texas Board of OT Examiners (NBCOT score report basis)
    Why demand stays strong
    49,200
    Occupational therapy assistants employed nationally, 2024 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook)
    7,200/yr
    Projected national annual openings for occupational therapy assistants, 2024-2034 (BLS)
    1.21×
    Texas OTA concentration vs U.S. average (location quotient, BLS OEWS May 2025)

    Live counts from the jobs feed, updated daily. Demand figures from public workforce data, sources noted with each figure.

    Pay by city · OTA · Texas

    Texas OTA Pay Across Major Metros

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    Texas OTA pay spreads with the map: metro skilled nursing and rehab urgency creates the premiums while school districts price to calendar-year structures. No state income tax keeps more of every package, whichever setting you choose.

    Highest weekly pay · Occupational Therapy Assistant
    Abilene
    $1,630
    Haskell
    $1,498
    Littlefield
    $1,497
    Lubbock
    $1,468
    Bryan
    $1,409
    Grand Saline
    $1,378

    Read the Texas city comparison above as a snapshot of the current market. Weigh supervision, setting, caseload, documentation, and travel radius on the posted job cards before committing, because the strongest fit is rarely just the largest weekly total. Expect the ranking to reorder as contracts open and close; all figures are travel-contract pay, not permanent staff wages.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.

    Texas COTA/OTA Jobs: TBOTE License plus Jurisprudence

    Texas requires occupational therapy assistants to hold a state license through the Texas Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners. Texas is not currently issuing OT Compact privileges, so travelers should use the state-license pathway and monitor the official compact map. The national credential is the NBCOT COTA, with education and examination eligibility detailed on the NBCOT eligibility page. OTAs carry out the occupational therapist's plan through ADL retraining, therapeutic activity, functional mobility, and adaptive-equipment work across skilled nursing, schools, rehabilitation, outpatient care, and home health. BLS OEWS reports 5,610 OTAs employed in Texas at a 1.21 location quotient, above the national average.

    Related travel jobs: COTA/OTA jobs in California, PT Assistant jobs in Texas, and SLP jobs in Texas.

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    Texas COTA/OTA Travel Jobs: Your Questions, Answered

    How does credential verification work for OTA travelers in Texas?
    Texas is not in the compact's first issuing wave, so licensure still runs through the state board, a point that plays out across Texas contracts. For OTA travelers, license verification and board processing form the timeline; the compact's progress elsewhere does not shorten it in Texas.
    How does the OT plan of care shape an OTA assignment in Texas?
    Day to day, the assistant carries out the therapist's plan of care, ADL retraining, therapeutic activity, adaptive equipment work, with skilled nursing, schools, and home health supplying much of the volume. For OTA travelers, a ZIP anchor on this page re-sorts the Texas listings around your base in Texas.
    Day to day, for a traveler weighing options, what should travelers know about the Texas OTA market?
    Texas is one of the deeper OTA markets in the country: BLS OEWS May 2025 counts 5,610 occupational therapy assistants at 1.21 times the national concentration average, and BLS projects national OTA employment to grow 22 percent from 2024 to 2034. That depth keeps travel contracts opening across outpatient, skilled nursing, and home health.
    Practically, how can workload and schedule change the fit of a Texas OTA contract?
    A side-by-side look at supervision cadence, caseload, productivity expectations, documentation time, and any multi-site travel before choosing a Texas OTA contract settles it. Those terms determine whether the assignment fits your recent setting experience. The filters here narrow the Texas board to contracts that actually fit, a point that plays out across Texas contracts.
    What does each Texas OTA listing show once the first cut is set?
    Across Texas listings, each OTA listing in Texas carries facility, shift, distance from your anchor, and posted pay on the card itself. For OTA travelers, two anchors, Houston and Dallas, run in a minute each and show which side of Texas fits better in Texas.