Psychologist Salary in Arizona

The psychologist salary in Arizona is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Arizona earned more than $119,010 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 Arizona is 112 percent of the national $55,170, the median 118 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 94 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Arizona, the 90th percentile wage is 2.7 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $72,270, 117 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $115,230 is 97 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $57.22. The 25th percentile wage ranks twenty-sixth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage ninth and the mean annual wage fourteenth.

The psychologist salary in Arizona also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Tucson, AZ has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Arizona: $124,250 in May 2025, 104 percent of the statewide median.

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ has the lowest, $115,570, 97 percent of the statewide median. One of the two areas sits above the statewide median of $119,010.

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 500, with a median of $115,570, 97 percent of the statewide median.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Arizona earned a median annual wage of $92,380 in May 2025, 96 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks seventeenth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 78 percent of the $119,010 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Arizona.

BLS counted about 1,100 school psychologists and about 730 clinical and counseling psychologists in Arizona, 1.5 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks seventeenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage twenty-first, and the occupation ranks twenty-seventh by concentration, 0.34 for every 1,000 jobs.

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Arizona: $93,640, with about 840 employed. Tucson, AZ has the lowest, $87,540. BLS publishes two such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Arizona: a median annual wage of $137,510 in May 2025, with about 240 employed, 116 percent of the $119,010 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.

Arizona has 2 ranked PsyD programs, led by Midwestern University, Glendale in Glendale, AZ (ranked twenty-fifth of 117), then Northern Arizona University in Phoenix, AZ (ranked seventy-third of 117).

Arizona lets as many as half of its 3,000 supervised hours come from practicum before the internship, so a candidate can qualify with no postdoctoral year at all. The licensing board is the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Arizona ranks all two with the state’s licensing rules.

BLS puts the licensing rule this way: “In most states, practicing psychology or using the title of ‘psychologist’ requires licensure.” (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, read October 14, 2026). The steps from a doctorate to a license, with Arizona’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Arizona.