Minimum education
No statewide minimum hours
Statewide entry-education orientation; pathway details remain in the licensing record.
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Vermont State Guide
Massage Therapy in Vermont
Explore Vermont massage licensing requirements, 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
- Vermont Office of Professional Regulation
- Verified
- Credential
- Massage Therapist, Bodyworker, or Touch Professional Registration
- Verified
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01 · Licensing
Mandatory state registration without competence prerequisites
VerifiedOpen the full record →
Registration does not displace generally applicable local business, zoning, premises, health, or safety requirements.
Renewal
Individual registrations renew every two years.
Renewal cadence only; deadlines, fees, and mechanics are in the state's CE and renewal requirements.
Continuing education
No recurring statewide CE hours
The reviewed licensing record explicitly establishes zero recurring statewide CE hours.
Details worth confirming
1 reviewed licensing detail should be confirmed before applying or renewing in Vermont. Each is summarised from the licensing record, which keeps the full caution and its official context.
Bounded
Vermont's establishment registration begins December 1, 2026
Act 119 requires registration of nonexempt massage establishments beginning December 1, 2026. That future requirement was not yet in force on this guide's July 29 review date; defined solo-practitioner and other locations remain exempt.
Detail worth confirming · Practice or establishment
Entry
Verified not applicable
Examination — No statewide examination requirement
Every applicable structured examination category is explicitly not required statewide.
Verified
Background check — Current chapter 105 and the Office credential-specific authority do not require a routine criminal-history report or fingerprint submission for massage registration.
From the licensing record
Renewal and continuing education
Verified
Required subjects — No recurring CE subject minimum was identified for this registration.
From the licensing record
Verified
Carryover — Because the registration has no recurring CE-hour requirement, no carryover or online-hour limit is represented.
From the licensing record
Verified
Documentation — Submit a completed renewal application and fee through the Office; no recurring CE certificate submission is represented.
From the licensing record
Scope, title and advertising
Verified
Scope of practice — Chapter 105 defines massage and bodywork as structured touch offered for consideration and establishes the registration boundary.
From the licensing record
Verified
Protected titles — An individual may not offer the regulated practice or use the massage therapist, bodyworker, touch professional, or related titles without registration, subject to statutory exemptions.
From the licensing record
Local rules
Verified
Local requirements — The state registration coexists with generally applicable local business, zoning, premises, health, and safety requirements.
From the licensing record
02 · Education
Massage education in Vermont
Bounded
Legal education requirements, official starting points, and selected MassageData program records are distinct.
See the Vermont school records and official lists →No individual program record cleared this review. That is not evidence that Vermont has no massage programs.
Legal entry requirement
No statewide minimum hours
Verified not applicableStatewide entry-education orientation; pathway details remain in the licensing record.
Review the detailed licensing pathway →Official starting point
Vermont massage training and nondegree education starting points
VSAC identifies Vermont massage-training options and general career-training guidance. Vermont OPR does not impose a massage education prerequisite or publish a licensing-approved program roster under the current registration model.
Open official resource ↗Before enrolling
School approval is not the same as massage licensure, accreditation, or a guarantee of outcomes.
03 · Insurance
Insurance considerations
Bounded
No statewide practitioner professional-liability insurance mandate was identified in title 26, chapter 105 or the reviewed general OPR authority.
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
Separate the legal finding from prudent professional risk management; verify covered modalities, exclusions, defense costs, limits, and policy dates.
Premises, property, employment, cyber, vehicle, and other business exposures are distinct from professional liability and require policy-specific review.
- Do not infer a legal insurance mandate from common professional practice.
- Recheck the linked licensing record and the intended practice address.
- Vermont Statutes Title 26, Chapter 105 — Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Touch Professionals Accessed October 6, 2026
- Vermont Statutes Title 3, Chapter 5 — Secretary of State and Professional Regulation Accessed October 6, 2026
Questions for an insurer
- Does the policy satisfy any state or local requirement that applies to this practice?
- Which modalities, locations, entities, and workers are covered?
- Are defense costs inside or outside the stated limits?
04 · Continuing education
Legal orientation and official starting points
Bounded
Legal CE orientation
No recurring statewide CE hours
Verified not applicableThe reviewed licensing record explicitly establishes zero recurring statewide CE hours.
Use official starting points to explore continuing-education resources in Vermont. Legal renewal and continuing-education requirements are on Vermont's CE and renewal page.
See detailed Vermont renewal and CE requirements →Compare Vermont CE and renewal with other states →Official CE starting points
Not yet reviewedNo separate official CE starting point cleared this review. That does not resolve the legal CE requirement.
05 · Workforce
Vermont workforce outlook
Bounded
BLS May 2025 OEWS state employment and wage values for massage therapists in Vermont were unavailable or suppressed; this is not a license count or practitioner census.
Employment
Verified not applicableThe reviewed official series did not publish a usable value for this occupation and geography.
Compensation
Verified not applicableThe reviewed official series did not publish a usable value for this occupation and geography.
Growth and openings
Bounded380
Projection base employment
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- Reported 2024 base employment in the state long-term projection.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
420
Projected employment
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- Reported 2034 employment in the state long-term projection.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
40
Projected numeric change
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported numeric employment change across the 2024–2034 projection period.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
10.2%
Projected percentage change
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported percentage employment change across the 2024–2034 projection period.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
50
Projected annual openings
Definition, limits, and sources
- Definition
- State-reported average annual openings, including growth, exits, and occupational transfers.
- Method
- State-submitted long-term occupation projection distributed through the Projections Managing Partnership system sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Limitation
- Projection employment coverage differs from OEWS. Published endpoints are rounded, so the reported numeric and percentage changes must not be recomputed from rounded endpoint values.
- Comparability
- Compare only within the same state's 2024–2034 projection series and measure; do not equate projection employment with OEWS employment.
- Observed or accessed
- October 5, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections Accessed October 5, 2026
Population universe
OEWS measures wage-and-salary jobs. Projections Central distributes state long-term occupational projections; its base and projected employment universe is not assumed to match OEWS.
Self-employment
BLS OEWS excludes self-employed workers, which is material in massage therapy.
Workforce source set
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API — May 2025 OEWS State Series Accessed October 6, 2026
- BLS OEWS May 2025 Methodology Accessed October 6, 2026
- Projections Central — 2024–2034 Long-Term Occupational Projections 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.
- Verified not applicable
- We checked and there is no such requirement, or the question does not apply in this jurisdiction. This is a complete answer carrying the same weight as a value, not a gap where one is missing.
- 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.
- Not yet reviewed
- Queued, with nothing asserted yet. No value is shown before a record is drafted and sourced, because an empty row is more honest than a guessed one.
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 6, 2026.