Physical Therapist · 6 Years Traveling · 14 Contracts · 8 States
Sarah graduated from PT school in 2018 with $98,000 in student loans and a staff job offer that paid $58,000 a year. She took it — but six months later, a friend told her about travel therapy. She was skeptical at first. The staffing world seemed opaque, the pay claims felt too good to be true, and she had no idea how to evaluate a single offer.
She signed with the first agency that called her back. It was a mistake she spent the next two years slowly correcting.
By her third contract, Sarah had learned enough to realize she'd been underpaid from the start. She started asking better questions. She compared offers across multiple agencies. She learned how to read a pay package line by line — taxable base, stipends, housing, travel reimbursement — and how to tell when an offer was structured to look good but wasn't. By her sixth contract, she'd paid off her student loans.
Sarah has worked across SNF, outpatient, and short-term acute settings in North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. She's been with the same agency for her last four contracts and has no plans to change that.
Sarah's mentorship style is practical and direct. She doesn't soften her opinions about bad contracts or opaque recruiters. If you send her a pay package, she'll tell you exactly what she thinks — whether it's great, fair, or quietly below market.
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After working with three different agencies over her career, Sarah has strong opinions. She's not here to bash anyone, but she is here to be honest about what she's learned.
"The biggest red flag for me now is a recruiter who can't explain exactly how your package is structured. If they're vague about what your taxable base is, or they can't tell you the bill rate range for the facility, walk away. Transparency isn't a courtesy — it's the baseline."
She's been with ProTherapy Staffing for her last four contracts and credits a lot of her recent satisfaction to working with an agency where she feels like a person, not a placement.
Sarah prefers to start with a short email exchange to understand where you are — new grad, first contract, switching agencies, something else. From there, she'll either set up a 30-minute video call or do a back-and-forth over email, depending on what works for you.
If you want her to review a pay package, she'll need the full offer breakdown — not just the weekly total. She'll walk you through it line by line and tell you what the comparable market rate is based on her own recent contracts in the same setting and region.
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