Psychologist Salary in New York

The psychologist salary in New York is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in New York earned more than $114,400 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 York is 118 percent of the national $55,170, the median 114 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 113 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in New York, 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 $48,980, 79 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $124,380 is 109 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $55.00. The 25th percentile wage ranks ninth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage fourteenth and the mean annual wage seventh.

The psychologist salary in New York also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in New York: $120,510 in May 2025, 105 percent of the statewide median.

Elmira, NY has the lowest, $67,690, 59 percent of the statewide median. Three of the twelve areas sit above the statewide median of $114,400.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 8,170, with a median of $120,510, 105 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 York earned a median annual wage of $106,550 in May 2025, 111 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks seventh of 51 jurisdictions. It is 93 percent of the $114,400 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in New York.

BLS counted about 9,070 school psychologists and about 8,420 clinical and counseling psychologists in New York, 1.1 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks fourteenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage fifth, and the occupation ranks first by concentration, 0.94 for every 1,000 jobs.

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in New York: $117,540, with about 7,890 employed. Rochester, NY has the lowest, $73,050. BLS publishes fifteen such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for New York: a median annual wage of $128,320 in May 2025, with about 680 employed, 112 percent of the $114,400 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 York has 10 ranked PsyD programs, led by Yeshiva University in Bronx, NY (ranked eleventh of 117), then Yeshiva University in Bronx, NY (ranked twenty-first of 117) and University at Albany in Albany, NY (ranked twenty-eighth of 117). Seven of the ten are APA-accredited in school psychology, alone or combined with clinical or counseling.

New York gives three routes to the degree test, and an APA-accredited doctorate is one of them. The licensing board is the New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions (State Board for Psychology), read October 14, 2026. PsyD programs in New York ranks all ten 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 York’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers New York.