Psychologist Salary in Iowa

The psychologist salary in Iowa is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Iowa earned more than $91,690 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 Iowa is 116 percent of the national $55,170, the median 91 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 93 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Iowa, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $54,980, 89 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $104,130 is 114 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $44.08. The 25th percentile wage ranks nineteenth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-second and the mean annual wage twenty-seventh.

The psychologist salary in Iowa also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Cedar Rapids, IA has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Iowa: $92,580 in May 2025, 101 percent of the statewide median.

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL has the lowest, $73,910, 81 percent of the statewide median. Two of the five areas sit above the statewide median of $91,690.

Omaha, NE-IA has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 450, with a median of $89,700, 98 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 Iowa earned a median annual wage of $74,410 in May 2025, 78 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks forty-first of 51 jurisdictions. It is 81 percent of the $91,690 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Iowa.

BLS counted about 400 school psychologists and about 440 clinical and counseling psychologists in Iowa, 0.9 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks forty-eighth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage forty-third, and the occupation ranks forty-first by concentration, 0.26 for every 1,000 jobs.

Omaha, NE-IA has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Iowa: $89,900, with about 210 employed. Cedar Rapids, IA has the lowest, $49,100. BLS publishes six such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Iowa: a median annual wage of $138,420 in May 2025, with about 60 employed, 151 percent of the $91,690 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.