Therapist / Counselor salary
What a therapist / counselor actually earns, from 112 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-06.
What the number means
A therapist / counselor earns a blended US median near 85,401 dollars, with the typical middle running from 79,703 dollars to 103,278 dollars. Demand is rated moderate, and 20% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is social worker, at 91 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open therapist / counselor roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
- LCSW Clinical Supervisor - Remote at AthenaUnited States · RemoteTodayApply
Licensed Mental Health Therapist - LCSW - LPC - LMFT at HeadlightUnited States · Remote2d agoApply
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Texas) at Tuesday HealthUnited States · Remote2d agoApply- Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor at Veterans Health AdministrationMultiple Locations$69k–$113k2d agoApply
Maternal Mental Health Therapist at Foresight Mental HealthCanada · Remote$80k–$90k3d agoApply- Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor-Substance Use Disorder (SUD) at Veterans Health AdministrationWinter Park, Florida$90k–$116k3d agoApply
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'122/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 26 Juristen, Sozialwissenschaftler und Kulturberufe: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 109'464 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a therapist / counselor profile already covers.
- 118 open pharmacist roles$153,453 median · +$68,052 · 57% readiness
- Perfusionist pay$142,269 median · +$56,868 · 34% readiness
- 600 open nurse practitioner roles$136,275 median · +$50,874 · 47% readiness
- 152 open psychologist roles$119,550 median · +$34,149 · 74% readiness
Every measured move out of this role, ranked by readiness: alternative careers for a therapist / counselor.
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- Social Worker salary$94,642 median
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Quick answers
How much does a therapist / counselor make?
The blended US median is about 85,401 dollars, with a typical range from 79,703 dollars to 103,278 dollars.
Is therapist / counselor a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated moderate in our July 2026 corpus, with 20% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a therapist / counselor move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is social worker, at 91 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 21-1014. Live corpus 112 observations, 2026-09-06. Definitions in the glossary.