Psychologist Salary Calculator 2026
Select your state, specialization, experience level and work setting to get a personalized salary estimate. Based on BLS OEWS May 2025 data and industry surveys.
The baseline is SOC 19-3033 (Clinical and Counseling Psychologists): a $100,580 national median and a $112,750 national mean. That is a different code from the broad Psychologists group (SOC 19-3030, $99,110 median) quoted on the home page, which BLS publishes nationally only and therefore cannot drive a state calculator.
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Methodology and Data Sources
Base salary estimates start from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 data for psychologist occupational categories (SOC 19-3030, 19-3032, 19-3033, 19-3034, 19-3039). State multipliers are computed at build time as each state's May 2025 mean wage for clinical and counseling psychologists divided by the $112,750 national mean for the same code. They are not typed in by hand.
BLS publishes no May 2025 clinical wage for Connecticut, Maine and Maryland. Selecting one of those states applies no state adjustment and the calculator says so on the result. We do not substitute a regional proxy or an older release.
Specialty adjustments use BLS specialty-level data where a code exists (I-O, clinical, school). Forensic psychology and neuropsychology have no BLS code; those two bases are our own estimates inside the SOC 19-3039 range and are labelled as such, not as BLS figures. The I-O base uses the BLS mean ($170,230) rather than the median ($193,950) because the I-O survey sample is tiny (790 jobs) and its estimates swing hard year to year.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 19-3033. Snapshot taken 6 September 2026. Public domain; Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
This calculator provides salary estimates for informational purposes only. Actual compensation depends on many factors including employer, negotiation, benefits, and local market conditions. The estimates represent typical ranges, not guarantees.