Exactly 50 of the 2,530 physical therapy assistant professionals employed in Indiana, work in South Bend. There has been a 29% decline in the number of physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend has decreased, overall employment in South Bend has increased.

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As the number of physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend has shrunk, salaries for physical therapy assistant professionals have increased. South Bend physical therapy assistant professionals made $50,880 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend made an average salary of $43,020 per year. The growth in the salary of physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Physical therapy assistant professionals in South Bend earn a median salary of $51,950 per year. The difference in pay between the physical therapy assistant professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 46%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $40,570 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $59,360 per year.

On average physical therapy assistant professional salaries in South Bend are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of South Bend's physical therapy assistant professionals are graduates of the only accredited physical therapy assistant school in the city.

South Bend's physical therapy assistant school offers one physical therapy assistant degree and certificate program.

Approximately 37 students graduated from physical therapy assistant courses in 2010.