Psychologist Salary in Massachusetts

The psychologist salary in Massachusetts is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Massachusetts earned more than $115,180 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 Massachusetts is 109 percent of the national $55,170, the median 115 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 120 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Massachusetts, the 90th percentile wage is 3.6 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $74,960, 121 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $124,560 is 108 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $55.37. The 25th percentile wage ranks eleventh of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage fourth and the mean annual wage sixth.

The psychologist salary in Massachusetts also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Pittsfield, MA has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Massachusetts: $125,030 in May 2025, 109 percent of the statewide median.

Barnstable Town, MA has the lowest, $80,420, 70 percent of the statewide median. Two of the seven areas sit above the statewide median of $115,180.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 1,920, with a median of $121,270, 105 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 Massachusetts earned a median annual wage of $98,670 in May 2025, 103 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks eleventh of 51 jurisdictions. It is 86 percent of the $115,180 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Massachusetts.

BLS counted about 3,300 school psychologists and about 2,860 clinical and counseling psychologists in Massachusetts, 1.2 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks nineteenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage tenth, and the occupation ranks second by concentration, 0.91 for every 1,000 jobs.

Massachusetts nonmetropolitan area has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Massachusetts: $102,270, with about 60 employed. Pittsfield, MA has the lowest, $89,870. BLS publishes eight such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Massachusetts: a median annual wage of $129,410 in May 2025, with about 500 employed, 112 percent of the $115,180 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.

Massachusetts has 2 ranked PsyD programs, led by William James College in Newton, MA (ranked fifty-eighth of 117), then Springfield College in Springfield, MA (ranked ninety-second of 117).

Massachusetts names racial and ethnic bases of behavior, with a focus on people of color, among the content areas a licensing doctorate must cover. The licensing board is the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Psychologists, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Massachusetts.