Behavior Technician (BT) — Step Ahead Growth Pathway: Free 40-Hour RBT Training

Step Ahead ABA provides in-home, school, and community ABA therapy for children and teens on the autism spectrum, across Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Virginia.

Step In. Step Up. Step Ahead.

Our clinicians are more than professionals; they are advocates for the people they work with. Our staffing model lets you build a caseload around your own availability, and our RBT leveling system and BCBA supervision pathway make advancement explicit rather than aspirational.

Our core values:
Compassion. Partnership. Accessibility. Evidence-Based Practice. Integrity. Growth.

Step Ahead ABA is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, develop, and retain talent from all backgrounds.

Step Ahead ABA provides the 40-hour RBT training course free of charge, so you can become a Registered Behavior Technician and be hired onto our team at $23/hour or more. No prior ABA experience and no BACB number are needed to start.

The 40 hours is the only real hurdle between you and your RBT certification, and we cover it.

• We give you the 40-hour training course at no cost. Work through it at your own pace, around whatever else you have on.
• When you finish, you register with the BACB and sit the exam. Those registration and exam fees are yours; the course is on us.
• Your certification comes through and you are eligible to take clients with us.
• You join our Fast Track Placement pool, and we place from it as cases open — at $23/hour or more.

You are not on our payroll during the course. Pay starts once you are certified and placed.

Certified RBT pay reaches $23/hour in every state we serve, and $30/hour in Hawaii. The RBT Leveling System raises it further at every level after that. That is the reason the training is worth your time.

We publish the non-billable rate as well as the billable one, because that is the number people get surprised by elsewhere:

• Hawaii: $30/hour billable, $16/hour non-billable
• Indiana: $23/hour billable, $10/hour non-billable
• North Carolina: $23/hour billable, $10/hour non-billable
• Oklahoma: $23/hour billable, $10/hour non-billable
• Virginia: $22-23/hour billable, $10/hour non-billable
• Nebraska: $22-23/hour billable, $16/hour non-billable
• Iowa: $21-23/hour billable, $10/hour non-billable

Cases do not go public first. When a family is ready for an RBT, our placement team works Fast Track Placement before the case is posted anywhere. Once you are certified and in the pool:

• You hear about a case days before it is advertised
• You get first refusal on cases that match your area and your availability
• You are matched on the schedule you already told us you can work
• When several people could take a case, pool members are contacted first

New cases come in every week across all seven states we serve:
Hawaii, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Nebraska and Iowa.

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Reliable transportation for when you are placed
• Able to stay active and engaged in session
• Genuine interest in working with autistic children
• No certification, no BACB number and no prior ABA experience required
• $23/hour and up, rising at every level of the RBT Leveling System
• Paid non-billable time, at the per-state rate listed above
• A BCBA assigned to every case before you start, with a real handoff
• You pick your clients and set your own hours
• A defined career path: RBT to Lead RBT to Trainer to BCaBA
• Capella University partnership: discounted tuition and degree support, plus a BCBA pathway
• Benefits at 40 hours a week

Step Ahead ABA is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or disability status.