Start here: comparing travel therapy companies before you sign
Travel Therapy Companies is for travel therapists comparing agencies before they sign, and the place to start is the comparison guide below, then the profiles of the agencies you are weighing. The guides are written, while the ratings on each profile are read from public review pages and shown per source, linked and dated, with no rank or score of the site’s own.
Who is this site for?
The site is for travel PTs, OTs, SLPs and assistants who are choosing an agency, switching agencies or talking to more than one at a time. It profiles agencies one by one: what each is, where it is based, the disciplines it places and its public ratings, linked to the reviews. The guides cover the questions that tell agencies apart, such as how a package is split, what the cancellation clause says and what a recruiter should put in writing.
The publisher is itself one of the agencies profiled here. The site describes each agency without rating or ranking them, and its old scores and rankings have been removed. If you already work with one agency and are happy with it, the guides still help you read its next offer.
Where should you start?
- How to compare companies without a spreadsheet: the criteria that decide it, in the order that matters, with no rankings and no names.
- What to share with a new agency, and when: a recent guide to what a recruiter needs before an offer, what belongs after you accept, and what no agency should ask you for, from USCIS, the IRS and the FTC.
- Non-compete clauses: a recent guide to non-compete, no-hire and conversion clauses in travel contracts, and what to ask before you sign one.
- When a contract is cancelled: the clause that decides who bears the cost when an assignment ends early, and what to read before you sign.
- Working with more than one agency: how to talk to several recruiters without burning bridges, and how to compare their offers line by line.
Then open the profiles of the agencies you are weighing. They suggest questions to put to each agency in writing, such as its benefits list and when coverage starts.
What on this site comes from data, and what is written?
The guides and the profile descriptions are written. The profiles say what each agency is, where it is based and what it places, and they link the agency’s own site.
Some parts are rendered from data files:
- The ratings on the profiles come from a ratings file read from Glassdoor and Facebook. Each is shown per source, with the review count, a link to the page it was read from and the month it was read. An agency or source with no entry shows nothing, and there is no blended or site-made score. A rating shows how a source’s users rated an agency when it was read; it says little about your recruiter, your facility or your package.
- The ownership line at the top of each page is approved wording, rendered the same way everywhere.
- The PT Compact count on the page for physical therapists comes from the PT Compact Commission’s own pages.
The money questions point to official sources rather than retyped figures: the IRS on how reimbursements under an accountable plan stay out of your taxable wages, as set out in IRS Publication 463, and HealthCare.gov on job-based health coverage.
How do you reach a recruiter?
Pages carry a short form headed Find Travel PT Assignments. Where the form has a text box, its line reads: “Tick the text box and a recruiter texts you right away. A recruiter emails you about your request.” A request you send goes to one agency, the publisher, not to the other agencies profiled here.
ProTherapy Staffing, which publishes this site, is owned and run by licensed physical therapists.
If you want a line-item offer to set beside the others you are comparing, ask a ProTherapy recruiter: Find my next contract.
How should you use the profiles?
Use them to narrow the field, not to decide. Pick two agencies, read both profiles, and take the same questions to both recruiters: the package split into the hourly wage and each stipend, when health coverage starts and whether it continues between contracts, and what the cancellation clause says.
Then compare the written answers rather than the weekly numbers. Two offers with the same weekly gross can be different offers once the taxable wage, the stipends and the terms are on the page.
Frequently asked questions
Does this site rank travel therapy companies?
No. It describes each agency without rating or ranking them. Public ratings appear on the profiles only as each source shows them, linked and dated, with no score of the site’s own.
Who owns this site?
A travel therapy staffing agency that is also profiled here. The ownership line at the top of each page says so, and its profile is written the same way as the others.
What should I ask every agency I talk to?
Ask for the package in writing with the hourly wage and each stipend on separate lines, when health insurance starts and what happens to it between contracts, and what the contract says about cancellation. The same questions to each agency make the answers comparable.
Sources
- IRS Publication 463 (2025), Travel, Gift, and Car Expenses, read October 25, 2026
- HealthCare.gov, See your options if you have job-based health insurance, read October 25, 2026