Psychologist Salary in South Carolina

The psychologist salary in South Carolina is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in South Carolina earned more than $92,700 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 South Carolina is 108 percent of the national $55,170, the median 92 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 73 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in South Carolina, the 90th percentile wage is 2.2 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $40,770, 66 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $91,790 is 99 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $44.57. The 25th percentile wage ranks thirty-third of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage thirty-ninth and the mean annual wage fortieth.

The psychologist salary in South Carolina also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in South Carolina: $117,170 in May 2025, 126 percent of the statewide median.

Charleston-North Charleston, SC has the lowest, $65,000, 70 percent of the statewide median. Three of the five areas sit above the statewide median of $92,700.

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 720, with a median of $117,170, 126 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 South Carolina earned a median annual wage of $76,720 in May 2025, 80 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks thirty-seventh of 51 jurisdictions. It is 83 percent of the $92,700 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in South Carolina.

BLS counted about 720 school psychologists in South Carolina.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks forty-fifth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage thirty-fifth, and the occupation ranks thirty-third by concentration, 0.31 for every 1,000 jobs.

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in South Carolina: $89,530, with about 60 employed. Northeastern South Carolina nonmetropolitan area has the lowest, $65,180. BLS publishes eight such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for South Carolina: a median annual wage of $136,990 in May 2025, with about 140 employed, 148 percent of the $92,700 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.