Clinical Psychologist Salary in South Carolina: What Clinical and Counseling Psychologists Earn
Clinical and counseling psychologists in South Carolina had a median annual wage of $92,700 in May 2025, 8% below the national median of $100,580.
That ranks 26th of the 48 jurisdictions that publish a median for the occupation.
The workforce count is the missing piece: BLS publishes no employment estimate for the occupation in South Carolina, so this page reads the median only.
The hourly median is $44.57 against $48.36 nationally.
Clinical & counseling psychologists · SOC 19-3033
$92,700/yr
−8% vs. national $100,580
$44.57/hr median
Which psychologists this covers
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 state and national estimates — South Carolina, SOCs 19-3033.
Retrieved 2026-09-24 from the BLS Public Data API.
How to read these figures
South Carolina vs. the national figure
Each occupation is compared with its own national median from the same May 2025 release, and the national clinical psychologist salary page gives the national distribution.
Ranks count only the jurisdictions (states plus DC) where BLS publishes that occupation’s figure.
Differences are whole percentages of the national figure, rounded half away from zero, computed from the figures shown.
A median $7,880 below national
The South Carolina median of $92,700 is $7,880 below the national median of $100,580 for clinical and counseling psychologists, an 8% gap.
The hourly median runs $44.57 against $48.36 nationally, a difference of $3.79.
Among the 48 jurisdictions where BLS publishes a median for this occupation, South Carolina ranks 26th, and the hourly median ranks 26th as well.
What the ranking does not come with is a workforce count: BLS publishes no employment estimate for the occupation in the state.
A median in the middle of the ranking, with no published employment estimate behind it, is why this page reads the median and leaves the percentiles alone.
What the distribution can and cannot say
This page prints the full percentile table for South Carolina, the 10th through the 90th with the national figures beside them, and an amber note flags the missing employment estimate.
The analysis stays at the median because BLS publishes no employment estimate for the state.
At the median, South Carolina sits between the national 25th percentile of $73,210 and the national median of $100,580, and the hourly median shows the same 8% gap: $44.57 against $48.36.
Nationally, the middle half of the occupation spans $73,210 to $135,200, a band of $61,990, and the South Carolina median sits in its lower half.
How South Carolina's own percentiles compare with those national marks is deliberately left unanalyzed; a distribution with no published employment estimate behind it is context on the table, not a floor-and-ceiling map to quote.
What this figure covers: Clinical and counseling psychologists only.
School psychologists and "psychologists, all other" (SOC 19-3039) are separate occupations and are not in this figure.
OEWS counts wage and salary workers, so psychologists in their own private practice are not counted.
⚠️ BLS publishes no employment estimate for this occupation in South Carolina, so the size of the sample behind these percentiles is unknown.
Read the median; treat the tails with caution.
Reading an offer against these figures
Compare an offer with both medians the page prints.
An offer at $92,700 matches the South Carolina median; an offer at $100,580 matches the national median but sits $7,880 above the South Carolina figure.
For an hourly posting, $44.57 is the South Carolina hourly median and $48.36 the national one, so a rate between the two sits above the state middle and below the national middle.
The table prints the state percentiles too, but with no published employment estimate the page does not place a given offer in the South Carolina distribution; read the median as the one state figure BLS publishes rather than a precise predictor for any individual offer.
What this figure does and does not describe
This row is the BLS occupation for clinical and counseling psychologists, not a figure for one South Carolina licence.
Nor is it a count of licence holders: OEWS classifies workers by job duties, not by the credential they hold.
The row is not split by licence stage, and South Carolina's psychology licensing chapter creates no master's-level licence.
South Carolina is a PSYPACT member state; the PSYPACT Commission map, retrieved 2026-09-24, lists its legislation as effective 2023-07-17, and the row says nothing about practice under the compact.
Check which licence a posting asks for before comparing its pay with this row.
The state's licensure pages, linked from this section, own the requirements.
What each licence requires in South Carolina is summarized in psychologist licensure in South Carolina.
Before you weigh an offer, check what licence or certification the posting requires — browse clinical psychologist jobs in South Carolina.
Why this page stops at the median
BLS publishes no employment estimate for clinical and counseling psychologists in South Carolina: the May 2025 row carries a median and percentiles, but the employment cell is unpublished, and the page carries an amber note that the sample size is unknown.
That is why the text analyzes the median only.
The median of $92,700, the hourly median of $44.57 and the 26th-of-48 rank stand as published, and the percentile table still renders, but no sentence builds a floor or ceiling on the 10th, 25th, 75th or 90th percentiles.
Read those tails as context on the table rather than as findings this page stands behind.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much do clinical psychologists make in South Carolina?
BLS reports a May 2025 median annual wage of $92,700 for clinical and counseling psychologists in South Carolina, or $44.57 an hour.
That is 8% below the national median of $100,580 and ranks 26th of the 48 jurisdictions that publish a median for the occupation.
BLS publishes no employment estimate for the occupation in the state, so the page analyzes the median and leaves the percentile tails unanalyzed.
Why does the page not analyze the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles?
Because BLS publishes no employment estimate for clinical and counseling psychologists in South Carolina, and the sample size behind the row is therefore unknown.
The percentiles are printed, but the page treats them as context on the table rather than findings: no sentence builds a floor or ceiling on them.
The median of $92,700, the hourly median of $44.57 and the 26th-of-48 rank stand on their own and are the figures to weigh against the national median of $100,580.
Is psychologist pay in South Carolina above the national figure?
At the median, no: South Carolina's $92,700 is 8% below the national median of $100,580, a gap of $7,880, and the hourly median of $44.57 against $48.36 tells the same story.
That is the only South Carolina-versus-national comparison this page makes; the percentiles stay unanalyzed while the employment estimate is unpublished.
How many clinical and counseling psychologists work in South Carolina?
BLS publishes no employment estimate for the occupation in South Carolina in May 2025, so there is no state headcount to quote.
Where BLS does publish one for this occupation, the count describes people in jobs during the survey period, not open positions.
The median of $92,700 still ranks 26th of the 48 jurisdictions that publish a median.
More South Carolina Clinical Psychologist Resources
Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 state estimates — South Carolina, SOC 19-3033 (BLS Public Data API) (retrieved 2026-09-24)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025 national estimates — SOC 19-3033 (BLS Public Data API) (retrieved 2026-09-24)
Wage figures: BLS OEWS May 2025 state and national estimates, SOCs 19-3033, retrieved 2026-09-24.
Page last updated 2026-09-29.