Psychologists, All Other salary

SOC 19-3039 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$110,840

per year, nationally

Middle half

$68,850–$147,240

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

18,820

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+4.3%

3,900 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$54,990$168,520

10th: $54,990
25th: $68,850
Median: $110,840
75th: $147,240
90th: $168,520

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Master's degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Internship/residency

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where psychologists, all other earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	California	$157,540	110.7	1,600	0.73×
2	Kentucky	$149,990	90.2	300	1.23×
3	Nevada	$146,850	100.0	100	0.55×
4	Oklahoma	$141,290	87.8	90	0.41×
5	Virginia	$140,640	101.1	510	1.03×
6	Iowa	$138,420	87.8	60	0.32×
7	Tennessee	$138,070	91.9	200	0.51×
8	Arizona	$137,510	100.7	240	0.61×
9	South Carolina	$136,990	93.7	140	0.50×
10	Alabama	$136,070	88.8	110	0.43×
11	Hawaii	$135,680	110.0	160	2.09×
12	Utah	$135,200	98.9	110	0.50×
13	Missouri	$134,890	90.8	250	0.69×
14	Florida	$134,690	103.4	910	0.76×
15	New Jersey	$132,220	108.8	370	0.71×
16	South Dakota	$132,170	88.6	30	0.54×
17	Ohio	$132,060	92.8	410	0.60×
18	Nebraska	$131,640	90.1	50	0.44×
19	Rhode Island	$130,960	102.3	90	1.42×
20	Massachusetts	$129,410	105.8	500	1.13×
21	New York	$128,320	107.9	680	0.58×
22	Washington	$128,230	107.0	370	0.86×
23	Montana	$126,960	94.6	40	0.63×
24	North Carolina	$126,440	94.3	570	0.95×
25	District of Columbia	$125,110	109.9	230	2.68×
26	Connecticut	$125,020	103.6	210	1.03×
27	Indiana	$123,640	93.3	200	0.51×
28	Idaho	$121,140	95.5	70	0.71×
29	New Hampshire	$120,790	104.2	—	—
30	Colorado	$120,660	103.1	380	1.08×
31	Minnesota	$115,650	98.6	330	0.94×
32	Arkansas	$114,340	86.9	120	0.74×
33	Maryland	$109,970	105.0	840	2.52×
34	Louisiana	$104,460	88.2	170	0.72×
35	Mississippi	$103,380	87.0	70	0.46×
36	Pennsylvania	$95,650	97.6	780	1.07×
37	Michigan	$88,510	96.2	410	0.78×
38	Oregon	$86,680	103.4	840	3.52×
39	Wisconsin	$81,860	94.1	1,080	3.02×
40	Vermont	$81,080	98.0	80	2.06×
41	Illinois	$69,810	100.0	1,120	1.51×
42	West Virginia	$46,350	89.5	230	2.71×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where psychologists, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for psychologists, all other

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$185,390	95.4	210	1.59×
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$175,160	110.4	110	0.82×
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$168,040	115.6	300	1.04×
4	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$166,480	106.7	170	1.27×
5	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$153,630	113.6	470	0.61×
6	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$152,980	98.2	30	0.37×
7	Asheville, NC	$152,550	96.5	60	2.56×
8	Richmond, VA	$152,050	97.9	90	1.13×
9	Oklahoma City, OK	$150,400	90.4	40	0.53×
10	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$148,820	111.9	250	1.34×
11	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$148,530	106.4	120	0.55×
12	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$146,850	97.3	90	0.53×
13	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$145,890	114.2	160	0.47×
14	Urban Honolulu, HI	$143,020	111.0	140	2.52×
15	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	$142,960	94.2	40	2.93×
16	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$142,400	100.2	70	0.53×
17	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$139,530	101.1	30	1.62×
18	Cleveland, OH	$139,170	93.9	90	0.71×
19	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$138,300	92.2	40	0.54×
20	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$138,070	96.3	—	—
21	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$137,650	103.3	170	0.61×
22	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$136,160	100.9	60	0.59×
23	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$135,470	97.9	110	1.18×
24	Jacksonville, FL	$134,970	99.5	50	0.53×
25	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$134,580	100.9	270	1.57×
26	Tucson, AZ	$134,430	96.9	50	1.02×
27	Kansas City, MO-KS	$133,950	92.5	110	0.83×
28	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$133,850	92.7	120	2.66×
29	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$133,180	101.6	70	3.89×
30	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$132,750	105.8	110	0.57×
31	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$132,220	112.6	790	0.69×
32	Bloomington, IN	$131,890	95.1	30	3.38×
33	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$131,530	101.4	170	0.97×
34	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$131,290	101.8	90	1.07×
35	Columbia, SC	$130,580	93.7	40	0.77×
36	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$130,400	92.9	60	1.78×
37	Killeen-Temple, TX	$129,960	91.1	50	2.63×
38	Fayetteville, NC	$129,830	92.0	50	3.21×
39	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$129,730	108.9	770	2.02×
40	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$129,420	100.3	80	0.33×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where psychologists, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Similar occupations

Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.

Clinical and Counseling Psychologists$100,580
School Psychologists$95,990
Urban and Regional Planners$89,320
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other$101,110
Economists$124,720
Anthropologists and Archeologists$70,770
Survey Researchers$69,460
Political Scientists$142,080