Clinical and Counseling Psychologists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,685
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$15,975
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$69,652
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$83,660
Kept after tax
$67,685
Worth in national money
$69,652
State rank
37
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $83,660, ranking 37 of 48 states — about 16.82% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 99 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $83,660 the take-home is $67,685, which is worth about $69,652 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $92,130, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 37 of 48 for clinical and counseling psychologists, with a median of $83,660 — about 16.82% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Within Texas, clinical and counseling psychologists ranks 99 of 493 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for clinical and counseling psychologists on its $83,660 median: $67,685 retained after tax becomes $69,652 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $92,130 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $136,360 |
| This salary | $83,660 |
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 Texas | $67,685 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $67,685 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,226 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $83,660 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,215 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $83,660 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,490 and the ninetieth is $136,360 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $67,685 take-home in Texas comes from $83,660. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 99 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $69,652, the adjusted value of that $83,660 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 99 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $83,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,490 to $136,360. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $67,685, from $83,660, assumes a single Texas filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 99 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $69,652 — the adjusted value of that $83,660 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 99 of 493 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 $92,130, 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 $59,490, the highest tenth $136,360, 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 $69,652.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $67,685 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Texas is $92,130. 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 ($59,490) and the ninetieth ($136,360) 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?
Texas'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 $69,652 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $67,685 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.