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BCBA
Chicago Metro, Illinois
Full-Time80k/year - 106k/year
Where you'll be working:
Location(s): Chicago Metro, IL
Setting: Clinic-based
Population Served: Children 2 - 18
Years in Operation: Founded in 1988
What You’ll Actually Be Doing (aka no surprises later):
- Provide individualized, evidence-based ABA services to pediatric clients in a fully clinic-based environment.
- Develop, oversee, and adjust treatment plans based on each child’s clinical needs and progress.
- Supervise and support RBTs while helping ensure high-quality and consistent treatment implementation.
- Collaborate with families and caregivers to support meaningful progress across environments.
- Work closely with an interdisciplinary team that may include occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, counselors, feeding specialists, and diagnostic professionals.
Caseload & Support Transparency (because details matter):
- Caseload size: 8 - 12 clients
- Billable hour expectations: 28 hours per week
- Support Structure:
- Dedicated scheduling team
- Administrative support for phone calls, cancellations, and last-minute schedule changes
- Collaboration with PT, OT, speech, feeding, counseling, and diagnostic professionals
- Clinician-founded organization with practicing clinicians represented in leadership
Compensation & Perks (real ones):
- Base salary: $80,000 - $106,000
- Bonus structure: Up to $12,000 annually
- PTO: 10 days
- Health benefits: 5 sick days
- Paid Holidays: 8.5 days
- CEU support: In House CEUs, $500 yearly CEU credit & 1 CEU day off yearly for your first three years, $750 yearly CEU credit & 2 CEU days off yearly after three years
- Supervision/mentorship provided: New clinical excellence team
- Schedule flexibility / remote options: 1 day per week
- Additional perks:
- Dedicated scheduling and administrative teams
- Access to well-equipped pediatric clinics featuring sensory gyms, rock-climbing walls, crash pads, zip lines, monkey bars, sensory swings, and individual treatment rooms
- Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration within the same clinic
- Growth opportunities across Company's expanding Illinois network
If it’s listed here, it’s real.
✨ Why This Is a Green-Flag Clinic
This organization meets our standards in:
- Ethical leadership
- Transparent pay & expectations
- Realistic caseloads
- Work/life balance
- Clinical support that actually exists
We don’t certify everyone, and we definitely don’t promote clinics we wouldn’t work at ourselves.
✅ You’d Be a Great Fit If You:
- Are a credentialed BCBA
- Care deeply about ethical, high-quality ABA
- Want support, not micromanagement
- Believe burnout is not a badge of honor
- Want to work somewhere that respects your license and your life
