Psychologist Salary in Delaware

The psychologist salary in Delaware is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Delaware earned more than $113,050 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 Delaware is 120 percent of the national $55,170, the median 112 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 82 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Delaware, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $30,020, 48 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $114,760 is 102 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $54.35. The 25th percentile wage ranks first of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-third and the mean annual wage fifteenth.

The psychologist salary in Delaware also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Delaware: $112,690 in May 2025, 100 percent of the statewide median.

Dover, DE has the lowest, $111,300, 98 percent of the statewide median. Neither of the two areas sits above the statewide median of $113,050.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 1,920, with a median of $112,690, 100 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 Delaware earned a median annual wage of $95,990 in May 2025, 100 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks twelfth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 85 percent of the $113,050 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Delaware.

BLS counted about 280 school psychologists and about 280 clinical and counseling psychologists in Delaware, 1.0 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks twelfth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage nineteenth, and the occupation ranks sixth by concentration, 0.58 for every 1,000 jobs.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Delaware: $82,190, with about 1,690 employed. Sussex Delaware nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $76,190. BLS publishes three such areas in all.