Clinical and Counseling Psychologists in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,371
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$28,659
26.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,632
Minnesota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Minnesota — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$107,030
Kept after tax
$78,371
Worth in national money
$79,632
State rank
16
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Minnesota's middle earner gets $107,030, putting the state 16 of 48 — about 6.41% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Minnesota. It ranks 50 out of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $107,030, tax leaves $78,371, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,632 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $110,480, since top earners drag the number up.
- For clinical and counseling psychologists, Minnesota sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $107,030, ranking 16 of 48 and running about 6.41% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Minnesota, clinical and counseling psychologists ranks 50 of 490 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Minnesota sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for clinical and counseling psychologists — median $107,030 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $78,371 retained, $79,632 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $110,480 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $163,610 |
| This salary | $107,030 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Minnesota | $78,371 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,126 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,940 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $98,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,586 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Minnesota earn less than $107,030. The published range is $62,290 up to $163,610, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $78,371, from $107,030, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 50 of 490 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $79,632, the adjusted value of that $107,030 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Minnesota. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 50 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for clinical and counseling psychologists in Minnesota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $62,290 to $163,610. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $78,371 from $107,030. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 50 of 490 locally.
- This $79,632 adjusted figure, worked from $107,030, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 50 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 50 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $110,480, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $62,290, the highest tenth $163,610, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $79,632.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Minnesota's own levy, $78,371 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Minnesota is $110,480. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($62,290) and the ninetieth ($163,610) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Minnesota's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $79,632 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $78,371 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Minnesota income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.