Psychologist Salary in Minnesota

The psychologist salary in Minnesota is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Minnesota earned more than $107,030 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 Minnesota is 113 percent of the national $55,170, the median 106 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 90 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Minnesota, 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 $50,070, 81 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $110,480 is 103 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $51.46. The 25th percentile wage ranks thirteenth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twentieth and the mean annual wage eighteenth.

The psychologist salary in Minnesota also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Minnesota: $126,960 in May 2025, 119 percent of the statewide median.

Duluth, MN-WI has the lowest, $98,020, 92 percent of the statewide median. Five of the seven areas sit above the statewide median of $107,030.

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 910, with a median of $108,480, 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 Minnesota earned a median annual wage of $85,190 in May 2025, 89 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks twenty-first of 51 jurisdictions. It is 80 percent of the $107,030 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Minnesota.

BLS counted about 1,060 school psychologists and about 1,290 clinical and counseling psychologists in Minnesota, 0.8 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks twenty-ninth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage twenty-seventh, and the occupation ranks twenty-fourth by concentration, 0.36 for every 1,000 jobs.

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Minnesota: $87,510, with about 780 employed. Fargo, ND-MN has the lowest, $63,280. BLS publishes seven such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Minnesota: a median annual wage of $115,650 in May 2025, with about 330 employed, 108 percent of the $107,030 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.

Minnesota has 3 ranked PsyD programs, led by University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN (ranked ninth of 117), then Saint Mary's University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN (ranked seventy-ninth of 117) and Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN (ranked eighty-sixth of 117).

Minnesota’s state exam is the Professional Responsibility Examination, an at-home, open-book test of the rules of conduct, and its postdoctoral year of at least 1,800 hours follows an internship of the same length. The licensing board is the Minnesota Board of Psychology, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Minnesota 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 Minnesota’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Minnesota.