Minimum education
625 hours
Statewide entry-education orientation; pathway details remain in the licensing record.
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Nevada State Guide
Massage Therapy in Nevada
Explore Nevada 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
- Nevada State Board of Massage Therapy
- Verified
- Credential
- Licensed Massage Therapist
- Verified
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Local governments may require general business licenses and may impose facility requirements within the statutory framework.
Renewal
Licenses renew every two years.
Renewal cadence only; deadlines, fees, and mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Continuing education
6 hours
The CE requirement applies to the two-year licensing period immediately before each renewal.
Compact legal CE orientation only; subjects, documentation, and renewal mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Entry
Verified
Examination — Board-accepted national examination
Required examination categories from the canonical licensing record.
Verified
Background check — Criminal-history processing is required; the current fee schedule includes an $85 background-investigation charge.
From the licensing record
Verified
Additional requirements — Applicants satisfy current identity, education, examination, criminal-history, disclosure, and Board documentation conditions.
From the licensing record
Coming from another state
Verified
Endorsement or reciprocity — Nevada law provides an out-of-state license path and specified experience alternatives; current statute, NAC, and Board instructions control the individual review.
From the licensing record
Scope, title and advertising
Verified
Scope of practice — NRS 640C.060 defines massage therapy as pressure or manipulation of muscular and soft-tissue systems for therapeutic purposes using listed methods.
From the licensing record
Verified
Protected titles — A current Board license is required for regulated practice and protected massage-therapist representations, subject to statutory exemptions.
From the licensing record
Local rules
Verified
Local requirements — Local governments may require general business licenses and may impose facility requirements within Chapter 640C's allocation of authority.
From the licensing record
02 · Education
Massage education in Nevada
Bounded
Legal education requirements, official starting points, and selected MassageData program records are distinct.
See the Nevada school records and official lists →No individual program record cleared this review. That is not evidence that Nevada has no massage programs.
Legal entry requirement
625 hours
VerifiedStatewide entry-education orientation; pathway details remain in the licensing record.
Review the detailed licensing pathway →Official starting point
Nevada Postsecondary Education Licensure
Official Nevada Commission on Postsecondary Education starting point for private postsecondary-school licensure. School authorization and recognition for massage-license eligibility remain separate checks.
Open official resource ↗Before enrolling
School approval is not the same as massage licensure, accreditation, or a guarantee of outcomes.
03 · 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 — Nevada Chapter
The official AMTA page identifies the Nevada 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 — Nevada Chapter Accessed October 5, 2026
Verified October 5, 2026
04 · Insurance
Insurance considerations
Bounded
The reviewed Nevada statute, NAC, and application page did not identify a general statewide professional-liability insurance minimum for every massage therapist. This does not resolve employers, establishments, leases, schools, events, contracts, or local requirements.
Limits of this finding
The reviewed sources do not support a universal legal conclusion. 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.
- Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 640C Accessed October 5, 2026
- Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 640C Accessed October 5, 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?
05 · Continuing education
Legal orientation and official starting points
Bounded
Legal CE orientation
6 hours
The CE requirement applies to the two-year licensing period immediately before each renewal.
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 Nevada. Legal renewal and continuing-education requirements are on Nevada's CE and renewal page.
See detailed Nevada renewal and CE requirements →Compare Nevada CE and renewal with other states →Official CE starting points
Bounded06 · Workforce
Nevada workforce outlook
Bounded
BLS May 2025 OEWS estimated 1,620 wage-and-salary massage therapist jobs in Nevada, with a median hourly wage of $25.74. These are estimates, not license or practitioner counts.
Employment
Bounded1,620
Estimated wage-and-salary jobs
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS estimate of massage therapist jobs in Nevada 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
- 12.3 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
Compensation
Bounded$25.74/hr
Median hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS median hourly wage for massage therapists in Nevada 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
$28.96/hr
Mean hourly wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS mean hourly wage for massage therapists in Nevada 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
- 4.1 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
$60,240
Annual mean wage
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- BLS OEWS annual mean wage for massage therapists in Nevada 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
- 4.1 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
07 · Resources
Official resources
BoundedEvery route leaves MassageData.
A selected official starting set, not a complete source ledger.
- licensingNevada State Board of Massage TherapyOfficial Nevada entry point for massage therapist applications, renewal, statutes, regulations, CE, establishment certification, and Board notices.
- educationNevada Postsecondary Education LicensureOfficial Nevada Commission on Postsecondary Education starting point for private postsecondary-school licensure. School authorization and recognition for massage-license eligibility remain separate checks.
08 · 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 14 distinct official or first-party source links from the governed records. Reviewed October 5, 2026.