Psychiatrist Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

BehavioralHires had 727 open psychiatrist listings from 30 employers on October 28, 2026.

58 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 227 in the previous 30 days.

At least 6.2% of psychiatrist listings were part-time on October 28, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

23.8% of psychiatrist listings were marked fully remote and 50.6% hybrid on October 28, 2026.

Listings that say nothing about location count as on-site, so these shares are floors.

For remote and hybrid shares across every role, see our remote behavioral health jobs data release.

The benefit psychiatrist listings named most often on October 28, 2026 was 401k Match, in 57.8% of listings, followed by health Insurance (53.5%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all psychiatrist listings.

The median annual wage for psychiatrists was $281,870 in May 2025, and the middle half earned $154,150 to $362,740 (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1223).

Too few psychiatrist listings state pay, or one employer posts most of those that do, to publish a market figure for advertised pay on October 28, 2026.

For the full federal pay breakdown and what it can and cannot tell you, see the psychiatrist salary guide.

For how many listings state pay at all, including pay written only in the description, see our pay transparency data release.

Pennsylvania had the most open psychiatrist listings on October 28, 2026, with 110 (15.1% of the national total).

California followed with 64 (8.8%).

To browse the openings in one state, start with psychiatrist openings in Pennsylvania.

30 employers had open psychiatrist listings on BehavioralHires on October 28, 2026, and the five largest posted 82.8% of them.

7 employers (23.3%) had exactly one open psychiatrist listing.

The largest single employer, LifeStance Health, posted 38.5% of all psychiatrist listings, so this sample leans toward large behavioral health groups.

BLS counted 27,980 employed psychiatrists in the United States in May 2025; the survey covers employees, so self-employed psychiatrists are not in that count (BLS OEWS, SOC 29-1223).

BLS projects psychiatrist employment to grow 7.2% from 2025 to 2035, against 3.5% for all occupations (BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35).

Only 4,470 psychiatrists worked in offices of mental health practitioners, outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers or residential facilities in May 2025; BLS files psychiatrists' own practices under offices of physicians (BLS OEWS industry tables).

For what the shortage projections and hiring data mean for employers, see our behavioral health hiring market guide.

For how to enter the field, see the psychiatrist career guide.

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid psychiatrist listing on BehavioralHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all psychiatrist jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than two thirds of them.

Third-party figures are quoted as published, with the source and year in each sentence.

Where BLS has no occupation for a job title, federal pay is given separately for each occupation the title falls under, never averaged into one number.