Psychologist Salary in Mississippi

The psychologist salary in Mississippi is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Mississippi earned more than $76,000 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 Mississippi is 87 percent of the national $55,170, the median 76 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 59 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Mississippi, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $38,100, 61 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $83,860 is 110 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $36.54. The 25th percentile wage ranks forty-second of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage forty-sixth and the mean annual wage forty-sixth.

The psychologist salary in Mississippi also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Jackson, MS has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Mississippi: $74,460 in May 2025, 98 percent of the statewide median.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the lowest, $71,870, 95 percent of the statewide median. Neither of the two areas sits above the statewide median of $76,000.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 170, with a median of $71,870, 95 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 Mississippi earned a median annual wage of $61,070 in May 2025, 64 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks fifty-first of 51 jurisdictions. It is 80 percent of the $76,000 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Mississippi.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks forty-seventh of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage fifty-first.

Memphis, TN-MS-AR has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Mississippi: $84,390, with about 140 employed. Upper East Mississippi nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $58,360. BLS publishes six such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Mississippi: a median annual wage of $103,380 in May 2025, with about 70 employed, 136 percent of the $76,000 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.