Psychologist Salary in New Hampshire

The psychologist salary in New Hampshire is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in New Hampshire earned more than $64,270 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 New Hampshire is 81 percent of the national $55,170, the median 64 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 107 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in New Hampshire, the 90th percentile wage is 4.4 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $75,110, 121 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $98,030 is 153 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $30.90. The 25th percentile wage ranks forty-sixth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-fourth and the mean annual wage thirty-fifth.

The psychologist salary in New Hampshire also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in New Hampshire: $121,270 in May 2025, 189 percent of the statewide median.

Manchester-Nashua, NH has the lowest, $59,480, 93 percent of the statewide median. One of the two areas sits above the statewide median of $64,270.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 1,920, with a median of $121,270, 189 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 New Hampshire earned a median annual wage of $73,490 in May 2025, 77 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks forty-second of 51 jurisdictions. It is 114 percent of the $64,270 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in New Hampshire.

BLS counted about 360 school psychologists and about 330 clinical and counseling psychologists in New Hampshire, 1.1 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks fiftieth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage forty-fifth, and the occupation ranks ninth by concentration, 0.53 for every 1,000 jobs.

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in New Hampshire: $98,670, with about 2,340 employed. Central New Hampshire nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $80,060. BLS publishes four such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for New Hampshire: a median annual wage of $120,790 in May 2025, 188 percent of the $64,270 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.

New Hampshire has 2 ranked PsyD programs, led by Antioch University New England in Keene, NH (ranked fifty-seventh of 117), then Rivier University in Nashua, NH (ranked 111th of 117). One of the two is APA-accredited in school psychology, alone or combined with clinical or counseling.

New Hampshire takes an APA-accredited doctorate as it is, asks any other program to prove in-person residence and coursework, and never lets practicum hours count toward the two supervised years. The licensing board is the New Hampshire Board of Psychologists, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers New Hampshire.