The Fitbit Flex, which retails for $99.95, costs $17.36 to make, including both materials and manufacturing costs, according to the teardown analysis. IHS projects that shipments of Fitbit Flex and similar activity monitors will triple within the next five years.
The BLS report from May 2014 states that most occupational therapists worked full-time and made an average of $78,810. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $52,670, and the top 10 percent more than $112,950. Many occupational therapists make more than the average mean wage by working in patientsâ homes, nursing homes, and hospitals. The highest average salaries can be found in Nevada, the District of Columbia, Texas, New Jersey, and California, where annual mean wages are over $84,000. The states that offer the lowest average salaries are Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, and South Dakota. Each of these states has an annual mean wage of $64,000 or less. Puerto Rico offers the lowest annual mean wage, at $35,740.
An average yearly salary range for an occupational therapist in the US is about $46,996 while an average hourly wage can be around $34.77 per hour. In addition, an occupational therapist with good work experience receives a salary range of$75,267 â $98,657 per annum.ccupational therapistâs salary (also known as OT salary) widely varies and is determined by various numbers of factors such as geographic location, type of employer, age of an occupational therapist, years of work experience, specialized qualification and work setting.