Psychologist Salary in Montana

The psychologist salary in Montana is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Montana earned more than $68,160 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 Montana is 90 percent of the national $55,170, the median 68 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 79 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Montana, the band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $50,220, 81 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $106,980 is 157 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $32.77. The 25th percentile wage ranks forty-fourth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage thirty-seventh and the mean annual wage twenty-third.

BLS publishes one metropolitan area for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Montana: Bozeman, MT, with a median annual wage of $98,460 in May 2025, 144 percent of the statewide median and about 30 employed.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Montana earned a median annual wage of $80,010 in May 2025, 83 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks thirty-second of 51 jurisdictions. It is 117 percent of the $68,160 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Montana.

BLS counted about 170 school psychologists and about 150 clinical and counseling psychologists in Montana, 1.1 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirty-sixth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage thirty-ninth, and the occupation ranks thirty-first by concentration, 0.32 for every 1,000 jobs.

Billings, MT has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Montana: $93,890, with about 30 employed. East-Central Montana nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $80,010. BLS publishes two such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Montana: a median annual wage of $126,960 in May 2025, with about 40 employed, 186 percent of the $68,160 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.