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    Research methodology

    Where every figure on this site comes from, how it is produced, and what it does not prove.

    What data does Take a Seat People publish?

    We publish two kinds of figure. Advertised pay ranges, taken from the behavioral health roles we recruit, and vacancy observations, taken from the job inventory live on this platform. Both describe our own recruitment activity in the United States, not the national market. For national wage and employment statistics we cite the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for certification requirements the BACB. We publish no survey we have not run and no placement statistic we cannot evidence.

    The datasets

    Take a Seat job inventory

    Every behavioral health vacancy currently live on the Take a Seat People platform, with its discipline, employer, location, work pattern and advertised pay where the employer publishes one.

    Collection
    Roles are added when an employer instructs us or when a vacancy is admitted to the platform. Each record carries a private first-observed and last-seen timestamp used for ordering and provenance. These timestamps are never shown publicly.
    Coverage
    United States, all 50 states, behavioral health disciplines only: ABA, autism services, speech and occupational therapy, mental health therapy, psychiatric care, clinical leadership and support roles.
    Updated
    Continuously, as roles open and close.
    Status
    active

    Limits

    • It is an inventory of roles we hold, not a census of the US market.
    • It is weighted toward the disciplines and employers we recruit for, most heavily ABA.
    • A count from it describes what we are currently advertising, at the moment the page was generated. It is not a market size.

    Vacancy observation record

    A daily snapshot of the live inventory: which vacancies were open, in which discipline and state, whether the role was advertised as remote, and when a vacancy stopped appearing.

    Collection
    An automated daily snapshot writes the state of the inventory to a history table. Vacancies that disappear are closed out in the record rather than deleted, so vacancy duration stays measurable once enough days exist.
    Coverage
    United States. Continuous recording began 28 August 2026.
    Updated
    Daily.
    Status
    active

    Limits

    • Trend history begins at the first observation. Nothing before that date can be reconstructed, and we do not attempt to infer it from imported records.
    • At the time of writing the record holds too few observations to support any statement about change over time.
    • It records vacancies we observe, not all vacancies in the market.

    Placement data

    Hires actually completed by Take a Seat People, with discipline, setting, geography and time to hire.

    Collection
    Recorded by the recruitment team at the point of placement.
    Coverage
    United States, disciplines we recruit.
    Updated
    Not published.
    Status
    not-yet-held

    Limits

    • Not yet published in any form. No page on this site cites placement statistics.
    • Will only be published once the sample is large enough that individual employers and candidates cannot be identified.

    Candidate supply data

    Availability, credential, license state and work-pattern preferences of clinicians registered with Take a Seat People.

    Collection
    Self-reported by candidates who register with us.
    Coverage
    United States.
    Updated
    Not published.
    Status
    not-yet-held

    Limits

    • Not yet published. Self-reported registration data is not a measure of the national candidate pool.
    • Will only ever be published in aggregate, never in a form that identifies an individual.

    Rules we hold ourselves to

    Publication standards
    RuleWhy
    Every figure carries its dataset and its dateA number without provenance cannot be checked, and an unverifiable number is worth nothing.
    Pay is described as advertised ranges, never as averagesRanges reflect what we typically see advertised on roles we recruit for in the US. They are a market guide, not a survey, and vary by setting, caseload and experience.
    No trend claims before the observation record supports themContinuous observation began 28 August 2026. We do not reconstruct history we did not observe.
    Job dates are never displayedVacancy timestamps are provenance and ordering only. Displaying them would imply a freshness claim we will not make.
    No invented authors, credentials or testimonialsResources are attributed to the editorial team or the research desk, which are real and verifiable.
    We do not give clinical or legal adviceOur expertise is the labour market. Certification is the BACB's authority; licensure is each state board's.

    Primary sources we cite

    Who writes this

    Take a Seat People editorial team

    Behavioral health recruitment specialists

    The recruiters and researchers who run Take a Seat People's US behavioral health searches. Everything published here is written from what we see in live hiring: the roles employers bring us, the packages that get accepted, the searches that stall and why. We recruit BCBAs, RBTs, SLPs, OTs, licensed therapists, psychiatric prescribers and clinical leaders across all 50 states.

    Take a Seat People workforce research

    Vacancy observation and workforce analysis

    The function that records and analyses the vacancies Take a Seat People observes across the US behavioral health market. It maintains the observation record behind every proprietary figure we publish and the methodology that governs how those figures may be described.

    Using our figures

    Journalists, researchers and employers are welcome to cite anything published here. Attribute figures to Take a Seat People, name the dataset, and include the date you read the page, because live vacancy counts change. If you need a figure we have not published, ask rather than infer it.

    Related

    • Behavioral health only
    • Recruiting across all 50 states
    • Pay published on every role
    • Recruitment partnerships, not job spam