High paying social service jobs in Alabama

Every social service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Alabama. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single social service job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in Alabama run 11.2% below the national average (2024), so a Alabama salary is worth about 1.13× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order. To see where a job pays a real premium, use jobs that pay more in Alabama.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Alabama · Employed

1Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists$61,050
Bachelor's degree
$42,300 – $84,2701,080
2Healthcare Social Workers$60,000
Master's degree
$40,020 – $74,4402,850
3Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$59,570
Master's degree
$37,670 – $78,5704,410
4Clergy$50,180
Bachelor's degree
$38,480 – $71,650850
5Child, Family, and School Social Workers$46,660
Bachelor's degree
$37,780 – $72,4904,220
6Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers$41,500
Master's degree
$29,370 – $64,750740
7Social and Human Service Assistants$35,830
High school diploma or equivalent
$24,170 – $52,1003,370

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianAlabama	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment SpecialistsBachelor's degree	$61,050	$42,300 – $84,270	1,080
2	Healthcare Social WorkersMaster's degree	$60,000	$40,020 – $74,440	2,850
3	Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and AdvisorsMaster's degree	$59,570	$37,670 – $78,570	4,410
4	ClergyBachelor's degree	$50,180	$38,480 – $71,650	850
5	Child, Family, and School Social WorkersBachelor's degree	$46,660	$37,780 – $72,490	4,220
6	Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social WorkersMaster's degree	$41,500	$29,370 – $64,750	740
7	Social and Human Service AssistantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,830	$24,170 – $52,100	3,370

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Alabama. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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Pay varies more between metros than between states — the spread inside one state is often wider than the gap between two.

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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in Alabama to rank honestly.

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