Psychologist Salary in Georgia

The psychologist salary in Georgia is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Georgia earned more than $96,060 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 Georgia is 82 percent of the national $55,170, the median 96 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 99 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Georgia, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $83,920, 135 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $102,950 is 107 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $46.18. The 25th percentile wage ranks forty-eighth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twelfth and the mean annual wage twenty-ninth.

The psychologist salary in Georgia 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 Georgia: $97,270 in May 2025, 101 percent of the statewide median.

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC has the lowest, $67,940, 71 percent of the statewide median. Two of the four areas sit above the statewide median of $96,060.

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 770, with a median of $97,090, 101 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 Georgia earned a median annual wage of $99,110 in May 2025, 103 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks tenth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 103 percent of the $96,060 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Georgia.

BLS counted about 1,650 school psychologists and about 1,120 clinical and counseling psychologists in Georgia, 1.5 school psychologists for every one of the others.

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

North Georgia nonmetropolitan area has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Georgia: $106,480, with about 40 employed. Chattanooga, TN-GA has the lowest, $68,060. BLS publishes six such areas in all.

Georgia has 3 ranked PsyD programs, led by Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA (ranked nineteenth of 117), then Mercer University in Atlanta, GA (ranked sixty-fifth of 117) and Brenau University in Gainesville, GA (ranked 106th of 117).

Georgia’s last licensing step is an oral examination before a subcommittee of the Board, built around a work sample from the candidate’s intended area of practice. The licensing board is the Georgia State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Georgia ranks all three 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 Georgia’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Georgia.