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Lactation consultant salary

Open lactation consultant jobs post a median of $49 an hour, with the middle half paying $43–$60: about $101,900 a year full time. Measured from 54 jobs at 36 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$49
Median posted /hr
$43–$60
Middle half /hr
$101,900
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$55.39
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Lactation consultant jobs

What lactation consultants are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Posted hourly rates of 54 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $29.81, the highest $126.81.

Posted on open jobs

$43–$60/hr

Middle half of 46 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $49. 36% of the 149 open lactation consultant jobs state an hourly rate.

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Lactation consultant pay by employer

What each employer posts for lactation consultants, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Sutter Health$103.75$56.60–$126.814
CommonSpirit Health$44.50$33.84–$90.424
Providence$72.25$50.80–$1013
Advocate Health$47.75$33.05–$57.303
Atlantic Health$56.75$41.79–$73.562
UChicago Medicine$53.50$53.502
Hackensack Meridian Health$53.25$51.90–$54.622
Inova$51.75$39–$64.252
Luminis Health$51$45–$572
Carilion Clinic$46$36.87–$55.312
Northwestern Medicine$43.75$32–$56.482
GBMC HealthCare$40.75$32.18–$49.462
Catholic Health (Long Island)$77$771
Tenet Healthcare$69.75$53.73–$85.941
Hillsboro Medical Center$60.50$48.14–$72.691
LifePoint Health$60.25$42.14–$78.111
Seattle Children's$60.25$48.13–$72.201
RWJBarnabas Health$59.75$51.88–$67.501
Tufts Medicine$53$37.50–$68.471
AtlantiCare$51.25$42.53–$601
AdventHealth$49$49.081
Legacy Health$48.75$40.06–$57.281
Adventist HealthCare$46$37–$551
Valley Health (Virginia)$45.75$37.24–$54.071
Emory Healthcare$45.25$45.151
MerrimackHealth$45.25$36.27–$54.411
Saint Anthony Hospital$44.50$34.70–$54.111
UPMC$44.50$34.92–$54.161
Mary Washington Healthcare$42.50$34.07–$51.101
Ascension$42.25$33.35–$51.341
VCU Health$41.75$34–$49.501
Baptist Health South Florida$41.50$35.40–$47.771
Carle Health$41.25$30.39–$52.271
Mass General Brigham$38.75$29.81–$47.791
Sanford Health$38$31.50–$44.501
Children's Mercy KC$36$35.901

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

Lactation consultant pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianJobs
California$69.75$68.50–$91$60.36 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025).

Lactation consultant jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

5 open jobs from 4 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $101,700, the middle half $88,600 to $110,800, from $61,802 to $155,126 posted.

Best-paid open lactation consultant jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: Lactation consultant jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other (29-1299)$31.35 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)$40.28 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)$55.39 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)$77.63 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)$93.84 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)28,630 (source: BLS OEWS, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($49) is $6.39 below the BLS median ($55.39 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Lactation consultant salary: common questions

How much does a lactation consultant make an hour?

Open lactation consultant jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $49, with the middle half between $43–$60 (54 jobs from 36 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $55.39/hr ($115,210 a year) for healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other in May 2025.

How much does a lactation consultant make a year?

At the posted median of $49 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $101,900, and the middle half to $89,400 to $124,800. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 5 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $101,700.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 54 of 149 open lactation consultant jobs (36%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other (SOC 29-1299), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Health Education Specialists (SOC 21-1091), published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS OEWS May 2025: Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other by state, published May 15, 2026
  5. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other, published August 27, 2026
  6. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Health Education Specialists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Lactation consultant salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/lactation-consultant

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