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Marriage and family therapist salary

Open marriage and family therapist jobs post a median of $48.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $34.50–$54: about $100,900 a year full time. Measured from 14 jobs at 10 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$48.50
Median posted /hr
$35–$54
Middle half /hr
$100,900
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$32.18
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Marriage and family therapist jobs · A specialty of mental health therapist pay

What marriage and family therapists 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 14 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $29, the highest $70.

Posted on open jobs

$34.50–$54/hr

Middle half of 11 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $48.50. 20% of the 69 open marriage and family therapist 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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Marriage and family therapist pay by employer

What each employer posts for marriage and family therapists, 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
Izzo Marriage & Family Therapy$40$404
Sharp HealthCare$54.75$45.06–$65.452
Kaiser Permanente$56.75$45.57–$67.961
BetterHelp$56.50$43–$701
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital$51$40.75–$61.121
MultiCare Health System$48.50$39.85–$57.351
University of Rochester Medical Center$35.75$30.33–$40.951
ARC Health Partners$33.50$31–$361
Silver Lake Psychology$33.50$31–$361
Crouse Hospital$32.25$29–$35.501

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.

Marriage and family therapist 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$51$36.75–$54$32.35 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10

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).

Marriage and family therapist 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 5 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $66,500, the middle half $61,700 to $81,500, from $54,000 to $115,000 posted.

Best-paid open marriage and family therapist jobs

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

Every open job: Marriage and family therapist 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
Marriage and Family Therapists (21-1013)$21.47 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)$24.07 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)$32.18 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)$45.12 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)$59.49 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)66,740 (source: BLS OEWS, Marriage and Family Therapists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($48.50) is $16.32 above the BLS median ($32.18 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Marriage and Family Therapists, 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.

Marriage and family therapist salary: common questions

How much does a marriage and family therapist make an hour?

Open marriage and family therapist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $48.50, with the middle half between $34.50–$54 (14 jobs from 10 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 $32.18/hr ($66,940 a year) for marriage and family therapists in May 2025.

How much does a marriage and family therapist make a year?

At the posted median of $48.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $100,900, and the middle half to $71,800 to $112,300. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 5 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $66,500.

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: 14 of 69 open marriage and family therapist jobs (20%) 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: Marriage and Family Therapists (SOC 21-1013), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Marriage and Family Therapists by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Marriage and Family Therapists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Marriage and family therapist salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/marriage-and-family-therapist

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