Psychologist Salary in Wisconsin

The psychologist salary in Wisconsin is a range, not one number. Half of the clinical and counseling psychologists BLS counted in Wisconsin earned more than $113,360 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 Wisconsin is 138 percent of the national $55,170, the median 113 percent of $100,580, and the 90th percentile 92 percent of $180,960.

Within the psychologist salary in Wisconsin, 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 $53,290, 86 percent of the $61,990 national band. The mean annual wage of $121,440 is 107 percent of the median, and the hourly median is $54.50. The 25th percentile wage ranks sixth of 48 jurisdictions, the 75th percentile wage tenth and the mean annual wage eleventh.

The psychologist salary in Wisconsin also changes from one metropolitan area to the next. Oshkosh-Neenah, WI has the highest median annual wage among the metropolitan areas BLS publishes for clinical and counseling psychologists (SOC 19-3033) in Wisconsin: $130,870 in May 2025, 115 percent of the statewide median.

Duluth, MN-WI has the lowest, $98,020, 86 percent of the statewide median. Five of the nine areas sit above the statewide median of $113,360.

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI has the most clinical and counseling psychologists of the areas listed, about 910, with a median of $108,480, 96 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 Wisconsin earned a median annual wage of $83,330 in May 2025, 87 percent of the U.S. median of $95,990. That median ranks twenty-seventh of 51 jurisdictions. It is 74 percent of the $113,360 median for clinical and counseling psychologists in Wisconsin.

BLS counted about 1,180 school psychologists and about 1,150 clinical and counseling psychologists in Wisconsin, 1.0 school psychologists for every one of the others.

The school psychologist 10th percentile wage ranks thirty-first of 51 jurisdictions and the 90th percentile wage thirteenth, and the occupation ranks eighteenth by concentration, 0.40 for every 1,000 jobs.

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI has the highest median annual wage among the areas BLS publishes for school psychologists in Wisconsin: $95,090, with about 390 employed. Kenosha, WI has the lowest, $74,860. BLS publishes fifteen such areas in all.

BLS also publishes psychologists, all other (SOC 19-3039) for Wisconsin: a median annual wage of $81,860 in May 2025, with about 1,080 employed, 72 percent of the $113,360 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.

Wisconsin has 1 ranked PsyD program, led by Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology in Milwaukee, WI (ranked seventy-sixth of 117).

Wisconsin lets the second half of its 3,000 supervised hours come from before or after the doctorate is conferred, so a postdoctoral year is one option rather than a requirement. The licensing board is the Psychology Examining Board, read October 21, 2026. PsyD programs in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin’s own rules in a table of every state, are in the licensing guide that covers Wisconsin.