About the Travel Therapist Info handbook
Travel Therapist Info is a reference handbook that explains how travel therapy works, from licensure and pay packages to contracts and health insurance, for PTs, OTs, SLPs and their assistants, and it is published by a travel therapy staffing agency. This page says who that publisher is, what the handbook is and is not, where its facts come from and how they stay current, and who to contact.
What is Travel Therapist Info?
The handbook is for therapists who want to understand travel therapy before they commit to it, and for travelers who need a single step explained again. Its guides cover what travel therapy is, how to get started, the requirements and credentialing documents, licensure and the compacts, how a pay package is built, what a contract says, the settings you can work in, and health insurance. The glossary defines the terms you meet in offers, contracts and tax rules.
If you want a reading order, the start here page sets it out. This page answers a different question: who stands behind the handbook, and how what it says is kept honest.
Who publishes the handbook?
The handbook is published by a travel therapy staffing agency, and you should know that before you read its guide to choosing an agency or its pages on pay. ProTherapy Staffing, which publishes this site, has been PT-owned and operated since 2012.
That sentence is the whole of what this page claims about the publisher. The request forms in the guides go to the publisher’s recruiters, and the card and the bar at the foot of each page that point to open jobs are the publisher’s own. The handbook carries no advertising and no paid placements from any other company.
What is the handbook not?
It is not a job board. The handbook lists no contracts. It explains how contracts work, and when you want open ones, the job alerts page and the request forms are the way in.
It is not a ranking of agencies. The guide to choosing an agency lists what to ask any agency and the warning signs to watch for. It does not score agencies, put them in order or set its publisher against anyone else.
It is not tax or legal advice, and it makes no promise about licensing times. Where a rule decides the answer, the handbook quotes the body that sets it and points you to a tax professional for your own return. Processing times belong to each state board, so the licensure guide sends you to the board or to your discipline’s compact commission for the current answer.
When you are ready to turn the handbook into a contract, tell a ProTherapy recruiter where you would like to go: Find my next contract.
Where do the handbook’s facts come from, and how do they stay current?
The guides are written explanations. Where a point is a convention rather than a rule, such as the usual length of a contract, they say so; where it is a rule, they say whose rule it is. A few parts are rendered from data files that carry their sources, so they change when the source changes:
- The glossary is built from a terms file. Every term with a legal meaning follows its official source and says where and when that source was read.
- The member-state counts and the privilege fee range on the compact and licensure pages come from the PT Compact Commission’s own pages, and the states issuing speech-language privileges come from the ASLP compact’s site and CompactConnect. Each of those lines carries the date it was checked.
- The home page FAQ quotes the General Services Administration and the IRS word for word, with links to the GSA per diem rates and the IRS guide to travel expenses and the date each was read.
Pay is the subject where the handbook sends you elsewhere for numbers. The pay guide types no figure; it links the Travel Therapy Pay Index, which publishes weekly medians by discipline and state, so a figure is never retyped from memory and left to go stale.
Who do you contact?
To reach a person, call or text the business line on the publisher’s contact page, which also takes a written message. If something in the handbook looks wrong, such as a compact that has started issuing or a source that no longer says what a guide quotes, name the page and the line when you send it.
If you would rather have contracts come to you, the job alerts page emails new contracts in your discipline, daily or weekly, in a state you pick or anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
Is Travel Therapist Info run by a staffing agency?
Yes. The handbook is published by a travel therapy staffing agency, named on this page, and its request forms go to that agency’s recruiters. A request you send goes to that agency and no other.
Why does the handbook link to a pay index instead of listing pay?
Pay changes with discipline, state and setting, and a range typed into a guide goes stale. The handbook links the pay index, which publishes weekly medians by discipline and state and names the month they describe.
How do I know whether a licensing fact is current?
Look for the date beside it: the compact lines on the licensure and compact pages say when they were checked. For anything that decides your start date, confirm it with the state board or your discipline’s compact commission.
Sources
- ProTherapy Staffing, home page, read October 26, 2026
- Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, read October 26, 2026
- GSA, Per diem rates, read October 26, 2026
- IRS Publication 463 (2025), Travel, Gift, and Car Expenses, read October 26, 2026