Psychologist Salary in Arkansas

The psychologist salary in Arkansas is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Arkansas earned more than $77,520 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 Arkansas is 105 percent of the national $55,170, the median 77 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 62 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Arkansas, the 90th percentile wage is 1.9 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $23,540, 38 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $82,100 is 106 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $37.27. The 25th percentile wage ranks thirty-eighth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage forty-seventh and the mean annual wage forty-seventh.

The psychologist salary in Arkansas also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Arkansas: $78,140 in May 2025, 101 percent of the statewide median.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the lowest, $71,870, 93 percent of the statewide median. One of the three areas sits above the statewide median of $77,520.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 170, with a median of $71,870, 93 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 Arkansas earned a median annual wage of $64,030 in May 2025, 67 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks fiftieth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 83 percent of the $77,520 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Arkansas.

BLS counted about 440 school psychologists and about 370 clinical and counseling psychologists in Arkansas, 1.2 school psychologists for every one of the others.

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

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Arkansas: $84,390, with about 140 employed. Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR has the lowest, $55,740. BLS publishes three such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Arkansas: a median annual wage of $114,340 in May 2025, with about 120 employed, 147 percent of the $77,520 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.