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Speech-language pathologist salary

Open speech-language pathologist jobs post a median of $53.25 an hour, with the middle half paying $47.25–$60.25: about $110,800 a year full time. Measured from 638 jobs at 220 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$53.25
Median posted /hr
$47–$60
Middle half /hr
$110,800
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$47.05
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Speech-language pathologist jobs

What speech-language pathologists 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 638 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $27.49, the highest $150.

Posted on open jobs

$47.25–$60.25/hr

Middle half of 423 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $53.25. 28% of the 2,304 open speech-language pathologist jobs state an hourly rate. 324 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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Speech-language pathologist pay by employer

What each employer posts for speech-language pathologists, 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
Kaiser Permanente$68.75$54.39–$89.6938
Therapy Spot$56.75$45–$7532
HealthTrust Workforce Solutions$51$35.96–$62.0515
UnitedHealth Group$48.75$32.25–$6315
Genesis HealthCare$66.50$42–$9014
Amedisys$55.75$37.50–$86.5312
Sutter Health$70.75$55.36–$94.1911
Providence$62.25$41.65–$84.9811
PAM Health$60$55–$7011
Riverside Health$59$41–$6311
CommonSpirit Health$56$33.11–$77.4211
Strides Therapy and Educational Services$60$50–$7510
MultiCare Health System$56$44.42–$78.2510
Select Medical$54$45–$73.1310
PACS Group$53.75$38–$6510
Sanford Health$42.25$32.50–$5210
AdventHealth$45.50$31.55–$59.508
Link Rehab and Wellness$65$60–$707
Ascension$45.25$34.76–$59.307
BrightSpring Health Services$58.75$40–$1006
Compassus$56.25$41.65–$72.296
Northwestern Medicine$54$52–$586
Baptist Health South Florida$51$51–$526
PT Solutions$51$45–$606
Advocate Health$47.75$33.05–$57.306
HealthPartners$44.75$36.37–$59.596
Avera Health$40.50$32.25–$51.256
Connect Home Health$77.50$55–$1005
Mount Sinai Health System$70.50$62.21–$78.605
ChristianaCare$59$35.39–$84.755
UPMC$54.25$32.46–$74.975
E-Therapy$49$45–$705
UMass Memorial Health$47.50$32.76–$63.615
Mercyhealth$45.75$35.85–$605
Hospital Sisters Health System$42.75$34.21–$51.315
OSF HealthCare$42.50$39.13–$46.035
NewYork-Presbyterian$73.50$53.45–$73.504
UW Medicine$70$68.71–$71.574
Hackensack Meridian Health$60.25$59.73–$60.264
Cortica$60$55–$654

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.

Speech-language pathologist 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$62.50$58–$69.75$57.20 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)121
Delaware$61.50$58–$66$49.40 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
New Jersey$61.25$56.50–$74.25$48.83 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)29
New York$60$49.25–$73$48.37 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)47
Alaska$59.75$51.75–$63$49.36 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Oregon$58.50$56.25–$59.50$49.35 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)9
Maryland$57.50$47–$62$47.69 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)22
Washington$57$53.25–$63.75$50.74 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)48
Virginia$55$48.75–$65$46.27 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)35
Colorado$55$47.50–$62.50$53.25 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)23
Ohio$55$41.75–$56$44.86 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)17
South Carolina$55$47.50–$60$43.52 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Texas$54.25$48–$57.25$48.03 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)35
Tennessee$52.25$47–$56.50$40.69 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)8
Illinois$52$47.50–$55.75$45.71 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)53
Arizona$52$50.25–$55.25$47.02 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)11
Pennsylvania$49$45–$55$44.69 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)10
Florida$48.75$45.25–$55.25$48.07 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)40
Massachusetts$48.25$46.50–$55$48.71 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)32
Missouri$48$45.50–$52.50$42.92 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)14
Minnesota$46.50$43.75–$49.75$42.97 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)26
Wisconsin$45$43.75–$57$39.90 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13
South Dakota$42.75$42.25–$43$31.58 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians, opens in a new tab)13

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).

Speech-language pathologist 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.

166 open jobs from 70 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $94,600, the middle half $78,800 to $103,800, from $43,630 to $198,765 posted.

Best-paid open speech-language pathologist jobs

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

Every open job: Speech-language pathologist 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
Speech-Language Pathologists (29-1127)$30.24 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)$37.37 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)$47.05 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)$55.08 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)$64.50 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)183,390 (source: BLS OEWS, Speech-Language Pathologists, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($53.25) is $6.20 above the BLS median ($47.05 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Speech-Language Pathologists, 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.

Speech-language pathologist salary: common questions

How much does a speech-language pathologist make an hour?

Open speech-language pathologist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $53.25, with the middle half between $47.25–$60.25 (638 jobs from 220 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 $47.05/hr ($97,870 a year) for Speech-Language pathologists in May 2025.

How much does a speech-language pathologist make a year?

At the posted median of $53.25 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $110,800, and the middle half to $98,300 to $125,300. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 166 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $94,600.

Which states pay speech-language pathologists the most?

By the median hourly rate open jobs post: California ($62.50), Delaware ($61.50) and New Jersey ($61.25). The lowest: South Dakota ($42.75), Wisconsin ($45) and Minnesota ($46.50). Each state's page breaks its pay down by town and employer.

Which employers pay speech-language pathologists the most?

Among employers stating a rate on at least 5 open jobs: Connect Home Health ($77.50), Sutter Health ($70.75) and Mount Sinai Health System ($70.50). 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: 638 of 2,304 open speech-language pathologist jobs (28%) 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: Speech-Language Pathologists (SOC 29-1127), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Speech-Language Pathologists by state, published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Speech-Language Pathologists (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Speech-language pathologist salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/speech-language-pathologist

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