Psychologist Salary in Rhode Island

The psychologist salary in Rhode Island is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Rhode Island earned more than $107,490 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 Rhode Island is 99 percent of the national $55,170, the median 107 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 80 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Rhode Island, the 90th percentile wage is 2.7 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $48,370, 78 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $104,670 is 97 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $51.68. The 25th percentile wage ranks fourteenth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage twenty-fifth and the mean annual wage twenty-fifth.

BLS publishes one metropolitan area for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Rhode Island: Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, with a median annual wage of $108,940 in May 2025, 101 percent of the statewide median and about 560 employed.

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 Rhode Island earned a median annual wage of $94,900 in May 2025, 99 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks fourteenth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 88 percent of the $107,490 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Rhode Island.

BLS counted about 210 school psychologists and about 420 clinical and counseling psychologists in Rhode Island, 0.5 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirty-fifth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage thirty-first, and the occupation ranks seventeenth by concentration, 0.42 for every 1,000 jobs.

BLS publishes one area for school psychologists in Rhode Island: Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, with a median annual wage of $95,090 and about 370 employed.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Rhode Island: a median annual wage of $130,960 in May 2025, with about 90 employed, 122 percent of the $107,490 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.