Psychologist Salary in Utah

The psychologist salary in Utah is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Utah earned more than $99,170 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 Utah is 87 percent of the national $55,170, the median 99 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 86 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Utah, the 90th percentile wage is 3.2 times the 10th, against 3.3 times across the country. The band between the 25th and 75th percentile spans $56,010, 90 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $104,390 is 105 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $47.68. The 25th percentile wage ranks eighteenth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage eighteenth and the mean annual wage twenty-sixth.

The psychologist salary in Utah also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Utah: $129,330 in May 2025, 130 percent of the statewide median.

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT has the lowest, $99,160, 100 percent of the statewide median. Two of the three areas sit above the statewide median of $99,170.

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 500, with a median of $99,160, 100 percent of the statewide median.

School psychologists (SOC 19-3034) in Utah earned a median annual wage of $77,820 in May 2025, 81 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks thirty-fourth of 51 jurisdictions. It is 78 percent of the $99,170 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Utah.

BLS counted about 490 school psychologists and about 1,020 clinical and counseling psychologists in Utah, 0.5 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirty-fourth of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage twenty-ninth, and the occupation ranks thirty-ninth by concentration, 0.28 for every 1,000 jobs.

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Utah: $81,480, with about 190 employed. Ogden, UT has the lowest, $66,540. BLS publishes three such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Utah: a median annual wage of $135,200 in May 2025, with about 110 employed, 136 percent of the $99,170 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.

Utah has 1 ranked PsyD program, led by Southern Utah University in Cedar City, UT (ranked fortieth of 117).

Utah sets a single 4,000-hour training total and lets any part of it come from doctoral training, the internship or postdoctoral work. The licensing board is the Behavioral Health Board, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Utah ranks all one 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 Utah’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Utah.