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Licensed clinical social worker salary

Open licensed clinical social worker jobs post a median of $48.75 an hour, with the middle half paying $42–$55: about $101,400 a year full time. Measured from 91 jobs at 55 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$48.75
Median posted /hr
$42–$55
Middle half /hr
$101,400
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$28.98
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Licensed clinical social worker jobs · A specialty of social worker pay

What licensed clinical social workers 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 91 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $25.01, the highest $83.60.

Posted on open jobs

$42–$55/hr

Middle half of 84 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $48.75. 24% of the 377 open licensed clinical social worker jobs state an hourly rate. 1 more state an "up to" ceiling, a weekly travel rate, a per-visit fee, or a rate far from the rest (a differential read as pay), left out.

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Licensed clinical social worker pay by employer

What each employer posts for licensed clinical social workers, 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
Boston Medical Center$39.50$34.81–$52.708
CommonSpirit Health$46.50$30.10–$70.386
UCSF Health$65.50$45–$83.605
Providence$53.25$33.52–$68.215
Sutter Health$60.50$47.74–$79.494
Legacy Health$50.50$40.06–$61.924
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$54$46.50–$62.053
Kaiser Permanente$52$44.94–$64.243
BetterHelp$59.50$43–$702
Emanate Health$53.25$41.58–$66.342
Scripps Health$52$42.51–$61.622
E-Therapy$48$482
Northwestern Medicine$43.50$34.90–$552
MerrimackHealth$35.25$26.05–$45.622
AW Holdings$72.50$65–$801
Benchmark Human Services-CT$72.50$65–$801
Montage Health$66.25$56.76–$75.921
MarinHealth$58.75$46.92–$70.391
ScionHealth$58.75$51.76–$65.641
BrightSpring Health Services$55$50–$601
Colusa Medical Center$55$45–$651
Eisenhower Health$54.25$43.05–$65.401
Aspen Valley Health$53.25$41.04–$65.671
Columbia Memorial Hospital$52$41.51–$62.661
Community Health Centers of America$50$40–$601
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab$50$501
San Antonio Regional Hospital$48.75$41.30–$56.121
Mason Health$48$39.48–$56.401
Tenet Healthcare$47.25$37.07–$57.461
Beth Israel Lahey Health$47$41–$531
UMass Memorial Health$46$32.87–$59.171
Mayo Clinic$45.75$36.50–$54.771
Fairview Health Services$45$37.37–$52.761
Hunterdon Health Care System$45$451
Riverside Family Physicians$44.50$35.34–$53.561
Richmond University Medical Center$44$39.68–$48.431
Adventist HealthCare$43.25$34.58–$51.871
Valor Healthcare$43$36–$501
Allina Health$42.25$35.61–$48.811
United Health Services (New York)$42$33.63–$50.451

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.

Licensed clinical social worker 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$55$50–$61.25$37.98 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)30
Massachusetts$39.50$39–$46.25$30.05 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)16

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).

Licensed clinical social worker 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.

89 open jobs from 53 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $85,400, the middle half $74,200 to $92,500, from $34,944 to $143,395 posted.

Best-paid open licensed clinical social worker jobs

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

Every open job: Licensed clinical social worker 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
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers (21-1023)$19.11 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$22.63 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$28.98 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$38.33 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)$50.08 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)132,810 (source: BLS OEWS, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($48.75) is $19.77 above the BLS median ($28.98 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers, 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.

Licensed clinical social worker salary: common questions

How much does a licensed clinical social worker make an hour?

Open licensed clinical social worker jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $48.75, with the middle half between $42–$55 (91 jobs from 55 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 $28.98/hr ($60,280 a year) for mental health and substance abuse social workers in May 2025.

How much does a licensed clinical social worker make a year?

At the posted median of $48.75 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $101,400, and the middle half to $87,400 to $114,400. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 89 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $85,400.

Which employers pay licensed clinical social workers the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: UCSF Health ($65.50), Providence ($53.25) and CommonSpirit Health ($46.50). The employer table lists the 40 employers with the most jobs stating pay.

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: 91 of 377 open licensed clinical social worker jobs (24%) 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: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers (SOC 21-1023), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Healthcare Social Workers (SOC 21-1022), published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS OEWS May 2025: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers by state, published May 15, 2026
  5. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026
  6. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Healthcare Social Workers (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Licensed clinical social worker salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/licensed-clinical-social-worker

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