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Rehabilitation Counselors

SOC 21-1015

Help people with disabilities build skills and find employment.

The job
Median pay
$47k
$39k to $59k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+2.2% projected
Openings a year
8k
BLS projection
Typical education
Master's
Our model
AI displacement risk
Moderate
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
5/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
44th pct
More exposed than 44% of occupations · modeled estimate · 76th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
51/100

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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
California13,6900.81.2×$44k
Massachusetts5,7601.62.6×$47k
Washington5,4401.52.5×$58k
Illinois4,1400.71.1×$49k
Pennsylvania4,1300.71.1×$49k
North Carolina3,8200.81.3×$46k
New York3,8100.40.7×$48k
Ohio3,6900.71.1×$43k
Michigan3,3400.81.2×$45k
Maryland3,3001.22.0×$41k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Florida3,1100.30.5×$46k
Minnesota3,0201.01.7×$48k
Virginia2,8900.71.1×$48k
Connecticut2,4101.42.3×$56k
Wisconsin2,3900.81.3×$47k
Iowa2,1701.42.3×$40k
Indiana2,0300.61.0×$44k
Missouri2,0200.71.1×$45k
Texas1,8400.10.2×$50k
Arizona1,7500.50.9×$48k
New Jersey1,6300.40.6×$50k
Oregon1,6300.81.4×$55k
Tennessee1,5900.50.8×$46k
Oklahoma1,5700.91.5×$38k
Kansas1,3701.01.6×$42k
Colorado9800.30.6×$48k
South Carolina9800.40.7×$36k
Idaho8201.01.6×$55k
Kentucky7900.40.7×$59k
Georgia7400.20.3×$55k
Utah6500.40.6×$44k
Arkansas6000.50.8×$35k
Nevada5700.40.6×$40k
Alabama5400.30.4×$54k
Nebraska4800.50.8×$47k
Mississippi4700.40.7×$42k
West Virginia4700.71.1×$48k
New Hampshire4300.61.0×$43k
Rhode Island4200.81.4×$47k
Washington DC4030.60.9×$50k~
South Dakota3700.81.3×$49k
Delaware3400.71.1×$49k
Maine3300.50.8×$51k
Montana3300.61.1×$45k
Vermont3101.01.7×$50k
Louisiana2800.10.2×$48k
New Mexico2100.20.4×$48k
North Dakota2100.50.8×$63k
Hawaii1500.20.4×$49k
Alaska1300.40.7×$62k
Wyoming700.20.4×$68k

Top metro areas

  1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,980 jobs · $43k median
  2. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH3,430 jobs · $47k median
  3. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV2,940 jobs · $48k median
  4. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA2,820 jobs · $59k median
  5. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,800 jobs · $50k median
  6. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,440 jobs · $49k median
  7. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI1,680 jobs · $50k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,620 jobs · $49k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.