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title: "Highest-Paying Jobs in Psychology"
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# Highest-Paying Jobs in Psychology

The occupations whose standard entry route is a psychology or counselling degree: the four BLS psychologist occupations, the postsecondary psychology teacher and the five counselling occupations, ranked by national median wage. Psychiatry (a medical degree) and social work (an MSW) are not counted.

10 occupations, in the ranked order the career bank computed. Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth figures are BLS Employment Projections and education is the BLS "typical education needed for entry".

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected growth | Typical education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Industrial-Organizational Psychologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-organizational-psychologist) | $193,950 | +6.3% | Master's |
| 2 | [Neuropsychologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/neuropsychologist) | $110,840 | +4.3% | Master's |
| 3 | [Clinical Psychologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-psychologist) | $100,580 | +11.2% | Doctorate |
| 4 | [School Psychologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/school-psychologist) | $95,990 | +0.7% | Master's |
| 5 | [Psychology Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychology-teacher-postsecondary) | $80,340 | +3.6% | Doctorate |
| 6 | [Marriage and Family Therapist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marriage-and-family-therapist) | $66,940 | +12.6% | Master's |
| 7 | [Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselor and Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/educational-guidance-and-career-counselor-and-advisor) | $64,330 | +3.5% | Master's |
| 8 | [Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/substance-abuse-and-behavioral-disorder-counselor) | $60,320 | +10.4% | Not published by BLS |
| 9 | [Mental Health Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mental-health-counselor) | $60,320 | +10.4% | Not published by BLS |
| 10 | [Rehabilitation Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/rehabilitation-counselor) | $46,850 | +1.4% | Master's |

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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