Psychologist Salary in Texas

The psychologist salary in Texas is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Texas earned more than $83,660 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 Texas is 108 percent of the national $55,170, the median 83 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 75 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Texas, the 90th percentile wage is 2.3 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $46,520, 75 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $92,130 is 110 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $40.22. The 25th percentile wage ranks forty-first of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage thirty-eighth and the mean annual wage thirty-ninth.

The psychologist salary in Texas also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Texas: $106,480 in May 2025, 127 percent of the statewide median.

Corpus Christi, TX has the lowest, $62,470, 75 percent of the statewide median. Five of the thirteen areas sit above the statewide median of $83,660.

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 950, with a median of $106,480, 127 percent of the statewide median.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Texas earned a median annual wage of $83,690 in May 2025, 87 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks twenty-sixth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 100 percent of the $83,660 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Texas.

BLS counted about 4,250 school psychologists and about 3,640 clinical and counseling psychologists in Texas, 1.2 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirteenth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage twenty-fifth, and the occupation ranks thirty-fourth by concentration, 0.30 for every 1,000 jobs.

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Texas: $90,310, with about 180 employed. Lubbock, TX has the lowest, $68,370. BLS publishes seventeen such areas in all.

Texas has 5 ranked PsyD programs, led by Baylor University in Waco, TX (ranked second of 117), then University of Houston-Clear Lake in Houston, TX (ranked thirty-ninth of 117) and Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX (ranked fifty-fourth of 117). One of the five is APA-accredited in school psychology, alone or combined with clinical or counseling.

Texas does not require APA accreditation, though graduates of APA-accredited programs can count more of their training hours toward the postdoctoral requirement. The licensing board is the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (licenses issued by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council), read October 14, 2026. PsyD programs in Texas ranks all five 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 Texas’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Texas.