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Psychologist salary

Open psychologist jobs post a median of $64.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $55–$75: about $133,600 a year full time. Measured from 99 jobs at 34 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$64.25
Median posted /hr
$55–$75
Middle half /hr
$133,600
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$48.36
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Psychologist jobs

What psychologists 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 99 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $33.72, the highest $200.

Posted on open jobs

$55–$75/hr

Middle half of 51 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $64.25. 20% of the 496 open psychologist jobs state an hourly rate. 12 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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Psychologist pay by employer

What each employer posts for psychologists, 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
Therapy Spot$57.50$50–$8526
Kaiser Permanente$75.25$63.78–$87.2123
Strides Therapy and Educational Services$77.50$55–$806
Mercyhealth$53.50$42–$65.104
Sharp HealthCare$72.75$57.74–$84.603
E-Therapy$50$46–$533
ARC Health Partners$95$63–$1252
Legacy Health$72$57.75–$86.052
Advocate Health$68.75$54.90–$82.352
Westchester Medical Center Health Network$57.25$50.63–$63.652
University Health System - San Antonio$51.50$39.50–$652
Sinai Chicago$44.25$44.252
Valor Healthcare$187.50$175–$2001
Therapy Smarts$115$80–$1501
El Camino Health$85$73.02–$97.031
Genesis HealthCare$85$851
Maimonides Health$77.25$75.74–$78.951
Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health$75$70–$801
Rochester Regional Health$75$751
Stanford Medicine Children's Health$74$65.75–$82.191
Eisenhower Health$66$52.33–$79.481
Confluence Health$64.25$50.20–$78.521
Essentia Health$64.25$51.44–$77.161
Serve the People$62.50$60–$651
Northwestern Medicine$62.25$51.92–$72.691
Shriners Children's$57.75$46.14–$69.221
Allina Health$57.50$48.29–$66.811
Craig Hospital$57.50$47.13–$67.871
Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare$55$50–$601
Family Care Health Centers$54.25$43.34–$65.021
Southeastern Michigan Health Association$53$44–$621
Pearl Health Clinic$50.50$45.55–$55.551
ADAPT Community Network$49.75$49.651
Astor Services$33.75$33.721

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.

Psychologist 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
New York$75$53.50–$81.25$55 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
California$72.75$65–$75$55.77 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)31
Illinois$54.25$52–$57$40.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11

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).

Psychologist 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 44 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $123,900, the middle half $106,000 to $133,600, from $53,187 to $300,000 posted.

Best-paid open psychologist jobs

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

Every open job: Psychologist 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
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (19-3033)$26.53 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)$35.20 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)$48.36 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)$65.00 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)$87.00 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)75,990 (source: BLS OEWS, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($64.25) is $15.89 above the BLS median ($48.36 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists, 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.

Psychologist salary: common questions

How much does a psychologist make an hour?

Open psychologist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $64.25, with the middle half between $55–$75 (99 jobs from 34 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 $48.36/hr ($100,580 a year) for clinical and counseling psychologists in May 2025.

How much does a psychologist make a year?

At the posted median of $64.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $133,600, and the middle half to $114,400 to $156,000. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 89 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $123,900.

Which states pay psychologists the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: New York ($75), California ($72.75) and Illinois ($54.25). The lowest: Illinois ($54.25), California ($72.75) and New York ($75). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay psychologists the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Strides Therapy and Educational Services ($77.50), Kaiser Permanente ($75.25) and Therapy Spot ($57.50). The employer table lists the 34 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: 99 of 496 open psychologist 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: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (SOC 19-3033), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Psychologists, All Other (SOC 19-3039), published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS OEWS May 2025: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists by state, published May 15, 2026
  5. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026
  6. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Psychologists, All Other (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Psychologist salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/psychologist

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