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Clinical Psychologists

SOC 19-3031

Assess and treat mental disorders with testing and evidence-based therapy.

The job
Median pay
$101k
$73k to $135k typical range
BLS figure for Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+12% projected
BLS figure for Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
Openings a year
4k
BLS figure for Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
Typical education
Doctoral (PhD/PsyD) plus license
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
37/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
79th pct
More exposed than 79% of occupations · modeled estimate
Future-proof
68/100

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Key skills

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California12,8400.71.4×$116k
New York8,4200.91.8×$114k
Illinois5,8101.01.9×$84k
Texas3,6400.30.5×$84k
Pennsylvania3,1400.51.1×$92k
Florida3,0400.30.6×$86k
Massachusetts2,8600.81.6×$115k
North Carolina2,7700.61.1×$92k
New Jersey2,7000.61.3×$127k
Michigan2,1700.51.0×$85k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Maryland2,1400.81.6×$126k~
Virginia2,1400.51.1×$87k
Ohio2,0800.40.8×$101k
Indiana1,8500.61.2×$85k
Minnesota1,2900.40.9×$107k
Washington1,2700.40.7×$115k
Tennessee1,1800.40.7×$77k
Colorado1,1700.40.8×$113k
Wisconsin1,1500.40.8×$113k
Georgia1,1200.20.5×$96k
Utah1,0200.61.2×$99k
Oklahoma9500.61.1×$80k
West Virginia9201.32.7×$77k
South Carolina8590.40.8×$93k~
Missouri8400.30.6×$99k
Nebraska7700.81.5×$95k
Arizona7300.20.5×$119k
Kentucky7100.40.7×$99k
Nevada6800.40.9×$103k
Connecticut6600.40.8×$120k~
Oregon5400.30.6×$134k
New Mexico5180.61.2×$125k~
Iowa4400.30.6×$92k
Rhode Island4200.81.7×$107k
Kansas4000.30.6×$77k
Arkansas3700.30.6×$78k
New Hampshire3300.51.0×$64k
Louisiana3200.20.3×$71k
Idaho3000.30.7×$98k
Maine2910.50.9×$92k~
Delaware2800.61.2×$113k
Alabama2600.10.3×$91k
Hawaii2500.40.8×$118k
Washington DC2200.30.6×$107k
Mississippi2100.20.4×$76k
Vermont1900.61.3×$83k
North Dakota1700.40.8×$116k
Montana1500.30.6×$68k
South Dakota1200.30.5×$80k
Wyoming500.20.4×$90k
Alaska400.10.3×$124k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ8,170 jobs · $121k median
  2. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN5,030 jobs · $85k median
  3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,790 jobs · $99k median
  4. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,920 jobs · $121k median
  5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,920 jobs · $113k median
  6. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA1,650 jobs · $72k median
  7. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,550 jobs · $102k median
  8. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,540 jobs · $166k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (SOC 19-3033), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.