Minimum education
625 hours
Statewide entry-education orientation; pathway details remain in the licensing record.
6 sections published
Indiana State Guide
Massage Therapy in Indiana
Explore Indiana massage licensing requirements, professional organizations, insurance considerations, continuing education, workforce data, and official resources, with links to official sources.
Statewide requirements and local rules are identified separately. This guide is general information, not legal advice.
- Regulator
- Indiana Massage Therapy Board
- Verified
- Credential
- Licensed Massage Therapist
- Verified
IN · main-state atlas plateIndiana
Locator · same geometry as the atlas
No statewide establishment credential was identified; local business, zoning, and facility requirements were not researched.
Renewal
Licenses renew every four years.
Renewal cadence only; deadlines, fees, and mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Continuing education
24 hours
The 24-hour requirement uses the four-year renewal cycle ending May 15 (2029, 2033), prorated by how long the license has been held.
Compact legal CE orientation only; subjects, documentation, and renewal mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Entry
Verified
Examination — Board-accepted examination
Required examination categories from the canonical licensing record.
Verified
Background check — A criminal background check is required; the reviewed page did not establish a universal fingerprint statement.
From the licensing record
Verified
Additional requirements — Maintain professional liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per claim and $6,000,000 aggregate and satisfy current PLA documentation requirements.
From the licensing record
Renewal and continuing education
Verified
Required subjects — At least 2 hours must address ethics.
From the licensing record
Verified
Carryover — Hours may not be carried into a later renewal period (847 IAC 1-5-1(c)).
From the licensing record
Coming from another state
Verified
Endorsement or reciprocity — Applicants credentialed elsewhere are evaluated under Indiana statute, rule, and PLA instructions rather than automatic reciprocity.
From the licensing record
Scope, title and advertising
Verified
Scope of practice — Indiana defines massage therapy as a health service involving external manipulation or pressure of soft tissue by specified manual methods.
From the licensing record
Verified
Protected titles — A state license is required to practice or use protected massage-therapist representations, subject to statutory exemptions.
From the licensing record
Local rules
Verified
Local requirements — No separate statewide massage-establishment license was identified in the reviewed PLA sources; local requirements remain outside this review.
From the licensing record
02 · Organizations
Professional organizations
Bounded
These are selected governed organizations, not a comprehensive state directory.
State chapter of a national professional association
American Massage Therapy Association — Indiana Chapter
The official AMTA page identifies the Indiana chapter as a professional-association connection for the state's massage community.
Massage therapists and massage-therapy students interested in AMTA membership.
Member support
- State chapter connection
- AMTA — Indiana Chapter Accessed October 6, 2026
Verified October 6, 2026
03 · Insurance
Insurance considerations
Verified
Indiana requires professional-liability insurance of at least $2,000,000 per claim and $6,000,000 aggregate. This does not resolve employers, establishments, leases, schools, events, contracts, or local requirements.
Limits of this finding
A reviewed authority identifies a legal insurance requirement. General information only—not legal, financial, or coverage advice.
Professional risk context
Compare covered modalities, exclusions, defense costs, policy form, prior-acts treatment, occurrence territory, and reporting duties.
General liability addresses premises and other third-party risks that may be distinct from professional services.
- A narrow state-law finding is not a recommendation to practice uninsured.
- Confirm employer, contract, establishment, landlord, event, and local requirements independently.
- Indiana PLA — Massage Therapy Licensing Information Accessed October 6, 2026
- Indiana Code Title 25, Article 21.8 Accessed October 6, 2026
Questions for an insurer
- Which modalities, populations, and locations are covered?
- Are defense costs inside or outside policy limits?
- What incident-reporting deadlines and exclusions apply?
04 · Continuing education
Legal orientation and official starting points
Bounded
Legal CE orientation
24 hours
The 24-hour requirement uses the four-year renewal cycle ending May 15 (2029, 2033), prorated by how long the license has been held.
VerifiedCompact legal CE orientation only; subjects, documentation, and renewal mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Use official starting points to explore continuing-education resources in Indiana. Legal renewal and continuing-education requirements are on Indiana's CE and renewal page.
See detailed Indiana renewal and CE requirements →Compare Indiana CE and renewal with other states →Official CE starting points
Bounded05 · Workforce
Indiana workforce outlook
Bounded
BLS May 2025 OEWS estimated 1,480 wage-and-salary massage therapist jobs in Indiana, with a median hourly wage of $26.72. These are estimates, not license or practitioner counts.
Employment
Bounded1,480
Estimated wage-and-salary jobs
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS estimate of massage therapist jobs in Indiana in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- OEWS excludes self-employed workers and estimates wage-and-salary jobs rather than active licenses or all practitioners.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 8.7 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
Compensation
Bounded$26.72/hr
Median hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS median hourly wage for massage therapists in Indiana in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
$29.27/hr
Mean hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS mean hourly wage for massage therapists in Indiana in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 3 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
$60,880
Annual mean wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS annual mean wage for massage therapists in Indiana in May 2025.
- Method
- BLS OEWS May 2025 state estimate for SOC 31-9011, Massage Therapists, retrieved from the official BLS Public Data API.
- Limitation
- The estimate covers wage-and-salary employment represented in OEWS, excludes self-employed workers, and is not a guaranteed individual wage.
- Comparability
- Comparable only with the same OEWS occupation, measure, geography level, and May 2025 vintage.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Uncertainty
- 3 percent: BLS-reported relative standard error for this estimate.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
Population universe
OEWS measures wage-and-salary jobs by occupation through an employer survey.
Self-employment
OEWS excludes self-employed workers, which is material in massage therapy; national self-employment context must not be presented as a state-specific percentage.
Workforce source set
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 5, 2026
06 · Resources
Official resources
BoundedEvery route leaves MassageData.
A selected official starting set, not a complete source ledger.
07 · Method
How this guide is made
Every field on this page carries a knowledge state, and every state is written as a word before it is drawn as a colour.
- Verified
- We checked the cited source on the stated date and the requirement exists as published. The date is the claim: it says when we looked, not that the rule is permanent.
- Bounded
- We know part of the answer and can say exactly where our knowledge stops. The boundary is stated in words and the fuller source is linked. A bounded finding is the edge of what we know, never an error.
What this guide does not determine
Local business, zoning, facility, and professional rules may apply in addition to statewide requirements. Confirm current requirements with the responsible authority before acting.
Sources and reviewBounded
This guide projects 9 distinct official or first-party source links from the governed records. Reviewed October 6, 2026.