Psychologist Salary in Alabama

The psychologist salary in Alabama is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Alabama earned more than $90,800 a year in May 2025 and half earned less. Percentiles mark places in the pay distribution; they are not experience levels. Set beside the U.S. figures for the same occupation, the 10th percentile wage in Alabama is 104 percent of the national $55,170, the median 90 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 85 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Alabama, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $57,430, 93 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $110,120 is 121 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $43.65. The 25th percentile wage ranks twenty-eighth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-eighth and the mean annual wage nineteenth.

The psychologist salary in Alabama also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Columbus, GA-AL has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Alabama: $97,270 in May 2025, 107 percent of the statewide median.

Tuscaloosa, AL has the lowest, $78,200, 86 percent of the statewide median. One of the three areas sits above the statewide median of $90,800.

Columbus, GA-AL has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 60, with a median of $97,270, 107 percent of the statewide median.

BLS defines a metropolitan area by county, so an area that crosses a state line has one figure for the whole area.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Alabama earned a median annual wage of $75,060 in May 2025, 78 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks fortieth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 83 percent of the $90,800 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Alabama.

BLS counted about 370 school psychologists and about 260 clinical and counseling psychologists in Alabama, 1.4 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks tenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage thirty-fourth, and the occupation ranks forty-ninth by concentration, 0.17 for every 1,000 jobs.

Huntsville, AL has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Alabama: $78,700, with about 50 employed. Northeast Alabama nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $73,820. BLS publishes two such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Alabama: a median annual wage of $136,070 in May 2025, with about 110 employed, 150 percent of the $90,800 median for clinical and counseling psychologists there. The group holds the psychologists BLS does not list separately, so it is not a wage for any one specialty.