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Clinical and counseling psychologists: pay by state and city

What clinical and counseling psychologists — the main job for this pathway — earn across the U.S., from the latest BLS wage survey (May 2025).

U.S. median$100,580
BLS OEWS · May 2025
Occupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Period
May 2025
SOC
19-3033 Clinical and counseling psychologists
File
oe.data.0.Current (download.bls.gov)
View official data
U.S. average (mean)$112,750
Jobs in the survey75,990
Most jobsCalifornia12,840 jobs · median $116,000

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United States

Clinical and counseling psychologists · annual wages, May 2025
BLS OEWS · May 2025
Occupational Employment and Wage StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Period
May 2025
SOC
19-3033 Clinical and counseling psychologists
File
oe.data.0.Current (download.bls.gov)
View official data
Lowest 10% below
$55,170
25th percentile
$73,210
Median
$100,580
75th percentile
$135,200
Top 10% above
$180,960
Middle half of workersMedianMean $112,750Jobs 75,990

BLS publishes this occupation for 51 state-level areas (50 states, DC and territories where available) and 276 metro and nonmetro areas. Places it does not publish are not estimated here.

Where the jobs are, and where pay is highest

Median annual pay, May 2025. Highest-pay lists only include places with at least 500 jobs. BLS wages are not adjusted for living costs, which are usually higher where pay is higher.

States with the most jobs

  1. California12,840 jobs$116,000
  2. New York8,420 jobs$114,400
  3. Illinois5,810 jobs$83,750
  4. Texas3,640 jobs$83,660
  5. Pennsylvania3,140 jobs$91,870

Highest-paying states

  1. Oregon540 jobs$134,350
  2. New Jersey2,700 jobs$127,090
  3. Arizona730 jobs$119,010
  4. California12,840 jobs$116,000
  5. Washington1,270 jobs$115,240

Metro areas with the most jobs

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ8,170 jobs$120,510
  2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN5,030 jobs$85,390
  3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,790 jobs$99,250
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,920 jobs$121,270
  5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,920 jobs$112,690

Highest-paying metro areas

  1. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,540 jobs$166,400
  2. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA630 jobs$153,050
  3. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,920 jobs$121,270
  4. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ8,170 jobs$120,510
  5. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC720 jobs$117,170
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Every job in this pathway

National figures. A field of study leads to several occupations, each with its own pay.

OccupationLowest 10%MedianTop 10%Jobs
Psychologists —$99,110——
Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors —$59,350——

"Jobs" counts wage-and-salary jobs in the OEWS survey; it differs from the employment totals in BLS projections. "—": BLS publishes this group as separate occupations; the median shown is the group figure from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Median pay by specialty · psychologists

  • Industrial-organizational psychologists$193,950
  • Psychologists, all other$110,840
  • Clinical and counseling psychologists$100,580
  • School psychologists$95,990
Data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national, state, metro and nonmetro estimates). How Margdarshan sources its data → · Back to Psychology