Psychologist Salary in Hawaii

The psychologist salary in Hawaii is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Hawaii earned more than $117,860 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 Hawaii is 157 percent of the national $55,170, the median 117 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 78 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Hawaii, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $39,330, 63 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $117,510 is 100 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $56.66. The 25th percentile wage ranks third of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage eleventh and the mean annual wage thirteenth.

BLS publishes one metropolitan area for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Hawaii: Urban Honolulu, HI, with a median annual wage of $119,420 in May 2025, 101 percent of the statewide median and about 190 employed.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Hawaii earned a median annual wage of $82,110 in May 2025, 86 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks thirtieth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 70 percent of the $117,860 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Hawaii.

BLS counted about 90 school psychologists and about 250 clinical and counseling psychologists in Hawaii, 0.4 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks seventh of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage forty-seventh, and the occupation ranks fiftieth by concentration, 0.14 for every 1,000 jobs.

BLS publishes one area for school psychologists in Hawaii: Urban Honolulu, HI, with a median annual wage of $82,110 and about 70 employed.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Hawaii: a median annual wage of $135,680 in May 2025, with about 160 employed, 115 percent of the $117,860 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.

Hawaii has 2 ranked PsyD programs, led by Hawaii School of Professional Psychology at Chaminade University of Honolulu in Honolulu, HI (ranked eighty-seventh of 117), then Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, HI (ranked 115th of 117).

Hawaii asks for a 1,900-hour internship and a 1,900-hour postdoctoral year, and since July 1, 2026 a provisional associate psychologist license covers that postdoctoral year. The licensing board is the Hawaii Board of Psychology, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Hawaii 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 Hawaii’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Hawaii.