Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for January 25, 2019
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January 25, 2019: In the 12 months ending July 2017, approximately 47 million Americans had a massage.[1] That total includes 21% of the nation’s women and 16% of men. A spa was the most likely spot for a massage, but therapists work in a wide variety of settings.
All that activity is enough to make massage therapy a $16 billion industry.
According to the American Massage Therapy Association, 89% of massage therapists are female, and the median age is 46. Most are sole practitioners spending just under 20 hours each week providing massage and earning about $58 an hour.
There are more than 300,000 massage therapists in the nation today, and they received an average of 665 hours of initial training.
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- January 24, 2019 – 58 percent of voters believe regulators don’t understand real-world impact of their work
- January 23, 2019 – 11.8 hours of typical workweek spent in meetings
- January 22, 2019 – 17 percent of U.S. electricity generated by renewable sources
- January 21, 2019 – 90% of Americans have favorable opinion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- January 18, 2019 – 55 years ago today, the Beatles made their first appearance on the Billboard charts
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