Psychologist Salary in Missouri

The psychologist salary in Missouri is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Missouri earned more than $99,410 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 Missouri is 83 percent of the national $55,170, the median 99 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 78 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Missouri, the 90th percentile wage is 3.1 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $56,010, 90 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $99,190 is 100 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $47.79. The 25th percentile wage ranks thirty-second of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage thirty-second and the mean annual wage thirty-second.

The psychologist salary in Missouri also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Jefferson City, MO has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Missouri: $116,670 in May 2025, 117 percent of the statewide median.

Springfield, MO has the lowest, $77,860, 78 percent of the statewide median. Two of the five areas sit above the statewide median of $99,410.

St. Louis, MO-IL has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 410, with a median of $101,250, 102 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 Missouri earned a median annual wage of $70,290 in May 2025, 73 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks forty-sixth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 71 percent of the $99,410 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Missouri.

BLS counted about 520 school psychologists and about 840 clinical and counseling psychologists in Missouri, 0.6 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks forty-first of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage forty-second, and the occupation ranks forty-eighth by concentration, 0.18 for every 1,000 jobs.

Kansas City, MO-KS has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Missouri: $78,090, with about 350 employed. Springfield, MO has the lowest, $74,470. BLS publishes three such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Missouri: a median annual wage of $134,890 in May 2025, with about 250 employed, 136 percent of the $99,410 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.

Missouri has 2 ranked PsyD programs, led by Kansas City University in Kansas City, MO (ranked ninety-fifth of 117), then Ponce Health Sciences University, St. Louis in St. Louis, MO (ranked 101th of 117).

Missouri puts an oral examination after the EPPP and its jurisprudence test, and its statute lets the 2,000 hours beyond the internship come before or after the doctorate. The licensing board is the Missouri State Committee of Psychologists, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Missouri 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 Missouri’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Missouri.