Therapist Salary in Nevada: Counselors, MFTs and Social Workers

The two Nevada medians do not move together.

The counselor median of $57,210 sits $2,140 below the national $59,350, while the social worker median of $62,900 sits $2,620 above the national $60,280 — 4% below and 4% above respectively.

BLS publishes no estimate for Nevada for marriage and family therapists, so the third row is empty here.

The two published occupations also do not stand as close together as they do nationally: the social worker median leads the counselor median by $5,690 in Nevada, against $930 between the two national medians.

And the lead is not distribution-wide: at the 10th percentile the counselor row is the higher one, $4,990 ahead.

The Nevada counselor gap is a middle-of-the-distribution effect.

The median of $57,210 is 4% below the national $59,350, yet every other published percentile keeps pace or leads: the 10th percentile of $42,920 is $3,980 above the national figure, the 25th of $48,170 is $1,070 above, the 75th of $77,120 is $590 above, and the 90th of $98,010 is $420 above the national $97,590.

The middle half of the distribution spans $28,950, close to the national band of $29,430, and the 10th-to-90th span is $55,090 against $58,650.

The hourly median is $27.51 against $28.53 nationally, the same 4% gap as the annual median.

BLS estimates 1,810 counselors employed in Nevada, a large enough count that the page carries no small-sample flag; the employment estimate ranks 43rd of the 50 jurisdictions that publish one, and the median ranks 35th of the 51 that publish a median.

This is a combined occupation, so the figures describe every kind of counselor it pools, not one licence.

Mental health and substance abuse social workers in Nevada have a median of $62,900, $2,620 above the national $60,280 and 15th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, with an hourly median of $30.24 against $28.98.

Outside the middle, the distribution does not follow the median upward: the 10th percentile of $37,930 is $1,810 below the national figure, the 75th of $75,940 is $3,790 below the national $79,730, and the 90th of $98,010 is $6,160 below the national $104,170; only the 25th, at $180 above, keeps pace.

The middle half spans $28,690 against a national band of $32,660.

BLS estimates 1,100 social workers employed in Nevada, ranking 31st of the 50 jurisdictions that publish an employment estimate for this occupation.

Read an offer against the row for the occupation the job would be counted in, never against a single Nevada therapy number, because the state's two rows point in opposite directions against their national figures.

The hourly medians are $27.51 for counselors and $30.24 for mental health and substance abuse social workers, $2.73 apart.

Which occupation leads depends on where in its distribution a figure sits: the counselor 10th percentile of $42,920 is $4,990 above the social worker figure, while the social worker median of $62,900 is $5,690 above the counselor median, and the counselor 75th percentile of $77,120 is $1,180 ahead again.

A percentile is a position in the state distribution, not a pay step, so an offer at the 25th percentile says where a figure sits among Nevada jobs in that occupation, not a judgement about the person hired.

None of the figures on this page is a licence figure.

The counselor row pools Nevada's Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors with substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors, so BLS publishes no median for that licence title alone, and neither published row is split by licence stage.

The social worker row mixes licence levels too: clinical social workers holding the LCSW are counted either here or in healthcare social work, depending on the setting, so the $62,900 median does not describe every LCSW, and pay at the LSW, LMSW and LISW levels is not visible in it either.

Nevada does license marriage and family therapists, as licensed marriage and family therapists with an intern licence for the supervised stage, but BLS publishes no estimate for the occupation in this state, so no figure on this page describes that licence at all.