Chiropractic Assistant job description
85 verified openings in Chiropractic Assistants & Clinic Staff
Oregon certifies its chiropractic assistants: 12 hours of training, four of them hands-on in hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and physiotherapy, then a 50-question open-book exam. Florida went the other way and stopped registering them in 2020. Either way, the job is the clinical and clerical support around a chiropractor's day, and O*NET files it under medical assistants, where Chiropractor Assistant is one of the titles workers report. Chiropractic assistants have no wage series of their own in federal data, so the closest honest figure is medical assistants working in offices of chiropractors: 28,340 of them, at a median of $37,520 in May 2025. The bottom tenth earned under $30,710 and the top tenth over $47,740. Medical assistants across every industry earned a median of $45,690, so the chiropractic office pays below the occupation as a whole.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
The medical assistant task list starts with the patient: an interview for medical information, then vital signs, weight, and height. Sterilizing instruments and throwing out contaminated supplies rank just as high. Assistants record histories and results in the chart, explain treatment procedures and the doctor's instructions, keep treatment rooms ready, and bring patients back for the exam. The other half of the job is the front of the office: greeting arrivals, answering phones, and completing insurance forms. X-ray work can carry its own rule. Minnesota requires an assistant who takes x-rays to pass a national radiography exam first.
Common Skills and Technologies
Social perceptiveness tops the skills O*NET rates for medical assistants, ahead of active listening and speaking, which fits an office where many patients arrive in pain. Employers of medical assistants name Epic Systems and Microsoft Office most often in postings, with eClinicalWorks and MEDITECH for records and QuickBooks where the job reaches into billing.
Education, Training, and Career Path
O*NET puts medical assistants in Job Zone Three. In its survey of required education, a postsecondary certificate drew 44.7 percent of answers, a high school diploma 20.5 percent, and a bachelor's degree 17.5 percent. For chiropractic work specifically, the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards runs the Certified Chiropractic Clinical Assistant program: at least 24 hours of coursework, a national exam, and 300 hours of clinical training. Florida has its own Certified Chiropractic Physician's Assistant credential, which takes 200 classroom hours and 24 hours of continuing education every two years.
Sources: O*NET 30.0, 31-9092.00 Medical Assistants, https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/31-9092.00. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, 31-9092, offices of chiropractors, https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm. Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards, https://fclb.org/chiropractic-assistant-certifications.php. Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners, https://www.oregon.gov/obce/Pages/Chiropractic-Assistant.aspx.