High paying social service jobs in Nebraska

Every social service occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in Nebraska. 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 Nebraska run 9.9% below the national average (2024), so a Nebraska salary is worth about 1.11× 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 Nebraska.

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

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OccupationMedian, Nebraska · Employed

1Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$63,770
Master's degree
$42,400 – $109,6102,170
2Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists$63,460
Bachelor's degree
$42,540 – $81,370560
3Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$62,500
Master's degree
$45,050 – $100,1602,190
4Healthcare Social Workers$62,420
Master's degree
$46,040 – $82,780980
5Child, Family, and School Social Workers$47,770
Bachelor's degree
$41,620 – $64,7504,830
6Rehabilitation Counselors$47,050
Master's degree
$37,040 – $68,040480
7Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers$43,240
Master's degree
$35,760 – $59,160900
8Social and Human Service Assistants$38,940
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,010 – $46,6401,460

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

#	Occupation	MedianNebraska	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health CounselorsMaster's degree	$63,770	$42,400 – $109,610	2,170
2	Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment SpecialistsBachelor's degree	$63,460	$42,540 – $81,370	560
3	Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and AdvisorsMaster's degree	$62,500	$45,050 – $100,160	2,190
4	Healthcare Social WorkersMaster's degree	$62,420	$46,040 – $82,780	980
5	Child, Family, and School Social WorkersBachelor's degree	$47,770	$41,620 – $64,750	4,830
6	Rehabilitation CounselorsMaster's degree	$47,050	$37,040 – $68,040	480
7	Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social WorkersMaster's degree	$43,240	$35,760 – $59,160	900
8	Social and Human Service AssistantsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,940	$31,010 – $46,640	1,460

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Nebraska. 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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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in Nebraska to rank honestly.

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