Psychologist Salary in Louisiana

The psychologist salary in Louisiana is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Louisiana earned more than $71,330 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 Louisiana is 84 percent of the national $55,170, the median 71 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 67 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Louisiana, the 90th percentile wage is 2.6 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $13,620, 22 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $79,510 is 111 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $34.29. The 25th percentile wage ranks twenty-ninth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage forty-eighth and the mean annual wage forty-eighth.

The psychologist salary in Louisiana also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Baton Rouge, LA has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Louisiana: $75,900 in May 2025, 106 percent of the statewide median.

New Orleans-Metairie, LA has the lowest, $56,580, 79 percent of the statewide median. One of the three areas sits above the statewide median of $71,330.

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 170, with a median of $71,330, 100 percent of the statewide median.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Louisiana earned a median annual wage of $69,020 in May 2025, 72 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks forty-seventh of 51 jurisdictions. It is 97 percent of the $71,330 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Louisiana.

BLS counted about 670 school psychologists and about 320 clinical and counseling psychologists in Louisiana, 2.1 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirty-ninth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage forty-first, and the occupation ranks twenty-sixth by concentration, 0.35 for every 1,000 jobs.

New Orleans-Metairie, LA has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Louisiana: $86,630, with about 130 employed. Shreveport-Bossier City, LA has the lowest, $62,000. BLS publishes seven such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Louisiana: a median annual wage of $104,460 in May 2025, with about 170 employed, 146 percent of the $71,330 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.