Psychologist Salary in Nebraska

The psychologist salary in Nebraska is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Nebraska earned more than $94,540 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 Nebraska is 82 percent of the national $55,170, the median 94 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 79 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Nebraska, the 90th percentile wage is 3.2 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $60,420, 97 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $99,180 is 105 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $45.45. The 25th percentile wage ranks fortieth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage thirty-third and the mean annual wage thirty-third.

The psychologist salary in Nebraska also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Lincoln, NE has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Nebraska: $120,000 in May 2025, 127 percent of the statewide median.

Omaha, NE-IA has the lowest, $89,700, 95 percent of the statewide median. One of the two areas sits above the statewide median of $94,540.

Omaha, NE-IA has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 450, with a median of $89,700, 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 Nebraska earned a median annual wage of $88,980 in May 2025, 93 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks nineteenth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 94 percent of the $94,540 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Nebraska.

BLS counted about 440 school psychologists and about 770 clinical and counseling psychologists in Nebraska, 0.6 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks eighteenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage eighteenth, and the occupation ranks sixteenth by concentration, 0.43 for every 1,000 jobs.

Lincoln, NE has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Nebraska: $99,000, with about 50 employed. Northeast Nebraska nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $79,910. BLS publishes four such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Nebraska: a median annual wage of $131,640 in May 2025, with about 50 employed, 139 percent of the $94,540 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.