Psychologist Salary in Pennsylvania

The psychologist salary in Pennsylvania is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Pennsylvania earned more than $91,870 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 Pennsylvania is 111 percent of the national $55,170, the median 91 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 97 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Pennsylvania, the 90th percentile wage is 2.9 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $57,690, 93 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $108,710 is 118 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $44.17. The 25th percentile wage ranks twenty-second of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage nineteenth and the mean annual wage twenty-second.

The psychologist salary in Pennsylvania also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Pennsylvania: $112,690 in May 2025, 123 percent of the statewide median.

State College, PA has the lowest, $80,480, 88 percent of the statewide median. Three of the ten areas sit above the statewide median of $91,870.

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 1,920, with a median of $112,690, 123 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 Pennsylvania earned a median annual wage of $82,190 in May 2025, 86 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks twenty-ninth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 89 percent of the $91,870 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Pennsylvania.

BLS counted about 2,600 school psychologists and about 3,140 clinical and counseling psychologists in Pennsylvania, 0.8 school psychologists for every one of the others.

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

York-Hanover, PA has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Pennsylvania: $99,550, with about 60 employed. Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA has the lowest, $77,160. BLS publishes twelve such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Pennsylvania: a median annual wage of $95,650 in May 2025, with about 780 employed, 104 percent of the $91,870 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.

Pennsylvania has 14 ranked PsyD programs, led by La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA (ranked fourteenth of 117), then Widener University in Chester, PA (ranked thirty-third of 117) and Immaculata University in Immaculata, PA (ranked forty-third of 117). Two of the fourteen are APA-accredited in school psychology, alone or combined with clinical or counseling.

Pennsylvania’s regulation lists APA accreditation first among the program credentials it accepts, and it needs no postdoctoral year. The licensing board is the State Board of Psychology, read October 14, 2026. PsyD programs in Pennsylvania ranks all fourteen 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 Pennsylvania’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Pennsylvania.