Health professionals not elsewhere classified: how to get into this work

Also called: Arts therapist, Chiropractor, Dance and movement therapist, Occupational therapist, Osteopath, Podiatrist, Recreational therapist

This unit group covers health professionals not classified elsewhere in Sub-major Group 22: Health Professionals. For instance, the group includes occupations such as podiatrist, occupational therapist, recreational therapist, chiropractor, osteopath and other professionals providing diagnostic, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services.

Main tasks

• Interviewing patients and conducting diagnostic tests to determine their health status, functional limitations, and the nature of physical or mental disorders, illnesses or other health problems
• Developing and implementing treatment plans for injuries, illnesses and other physical and mental impairments
• Evaluating and documenting patients’ progress through treatment plans, and referring patients and families to medical doctors or other health care providers for specialized, rehabilitative or other care services as needed
• Administering therapeutic care and treatment to patients, including through application of manual and physical chiropractic and osteopathic techniques
• Recommending environmental adaptations in the home, leisure, work and school environments on an individual or group basis to enable individuals with functional limitations to perform their daily activities and occupations
• Planning and implementing therapeutic programmes on an individual and group basis for improving and maintaining physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning, including through the use of arts and crafts, dance and movement, music and other recreational activities
• Identifying and prescribing treatments for conditions affecting the foot, ankle and related structures of the leg due to illness, disease or other physical impairment, and prescribing corrective footwear and advising on foot care to manage foot ailments
• Performing minor surgical procedures such as on the foot and ankles

Ways in

• University: Health & Public Health degrees, Offered by 11 universities in Hong Kong
• Licence or registration: Registering body: Allied Health Professions Council and its boards. Law: Allied Health Professions Ordinance (專職醫療業條例), Cap. 359. Summary by Peernovo; check the body's current rules.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: HK$48,000 a month
• About 1,542,900 people in 2025, and about 1,639,100 projected by 2028. (+6.2%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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• Physiotherapists
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• Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
• Audiologists and speech therapists

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Questions people ask

Health professionals not elsewhere classified: how do I get into this work?

Ways in include: Health & Public Health degrees.

Health professionals not elsewhere classified: do you need a degree for this work?

Usually. 88% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

Health professionals not elsewhere classified: will AI change this work?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Census and Statistics Department (2021 Population Census): 2021 Population Census, Interactive Data Dissemination Service: working population by occupation (38 groups) and sex, age, education, income; median income and field of education (9 groups) (2021 Population Census), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Census and Statistics Department (General Household Survey): Median monthly employment earnings by occupation (9 groups), excluding foreign domestic helpers (Table 210-06317A); employed persons by occupation, age and sex (210-06307A) and by industry (210-06308A) (2025 annual (series to 2026-07)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• Labour and Welfare Bureau; tables published by C&SD: Mid-term Update of Manpower Projection to 2028: supplementary statistical tables (5 occupation groups, 17 selected industries) (2025 to 2028 (published 2026-09)), retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026