Psychologist Salary in Puerto Rico

The psychologist salary in Puerto Rico is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Puerto Rico earned more than $67,660 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 Puerto Rico is 84 percent of the national $55,170, the median 67 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 50 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Puerto Rico, the 90th percentile wage is 2 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $24,990, 40 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $66,470 is 98 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $32.53.

The psychologist salary in Puerto Rico also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Ponce, PR has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Puerto Rico: $76,840 in May 2025, 114 percent of the islandwide median.

San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR has the lowest, $67,660, 100 percent of the islandwide median. One of the two areas sits above the islandwide median of $67,660.

San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 220, with a median of $67,660, 100 percent of the islandwide median.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Puerto Rico earned a median annual wage of $97,210 in May 2025, 101 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. It is 144 percent of the $67,660 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Puerto Rico.

BLS counted about 810 school psychologists and about 330 clinical and counseling psychologists in Puerto Rico, 2.5 school psychologists for every one of the others.

Aguadilla, PR has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Puerto Rico: $97,210, with about 50 employed. San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR has the lowest, $97,210, the same figure. BLS publishes five such areas in all.

Puerto Rico has 4 ranked PsyD programs, led by Carlos Albizu University, San Juan Campus in San Juan, PR (ranked twenty-fourth of 117), then Ponce Health Sciences University in Ponce, PR (ranked thirty-eighth of 117) and Carlos Albizu University, Mayaguez in Mayaguez, PR (ranked eighty-eighth of 117).

Puerto Rico licenses clinical psychologists at the doctoral level and writes an in-person program requirement into its regulation. The licensing board is the Junta Examinadora de Psicólogos de Puerto Rico (JEP), read October 14, 2026. PsyD programs in Puerto Rico ranks all four 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 Puerto Rico’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Puerto Rico.