Therapist Salary in Wyoming: Counselors, MFTs and Social Workers

Set against their own national figures, the two published Wyoming medians move apart.

The counselor median of $62,980 is $3,630 above the national $59,350, a 6% difference, while the social worker median of $59,310 is $970 below the national $60,280, a 2% difference.

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

The two occupations also swap places between the state and the nation: nationally the social worker median of $60,280 leads the counselor median of $59,350 by $930, while in Wyoming counselors lead social workers by $3,670.

The hourly medians run $30.28 for counselors, above their national $28.53, and $28.51 for social workers, just under the national $28.98.

The Wyoming counselor distribution tilts upward.

The floor sits below the national one: the 10th percentile of $36,960 is 5% below the national figure, and the 25th percentile of $46,300 is 2% below.

From the median up the row moves ahead: the median of $62,980 is $3,630, or 6%, above the national $59,350 and ranks 12th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish one; the 75th percentile of $80,310 is 5% above, and the 90th percentile of $103,150 is 6% above the national $97,590.

The spread widens accordingly: the middle half spans $34,010 against the national band of $29,430, and the 10th-to-90th span reaches $66,190 against $58,650.

The hourly median is $30.28 against $28.53 nationally.

BLS estimates 910 counselors employed in Wyoming, ranking 50th of the 50 jurisdictions that publish an employment estimate.

For someone weighing a counselor offer, a figure near the floor sits below the corresponding national one; from the middle up it sits above.

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 Wyoming have a median of $59,310, $970 below the national median of $60,280, a difference of 2%.

The hourly median is $28.51 against $28.98 nationally, $0.47 below.

By median, Wyoming ranks 22nd of the 51 jurisdictions that publish one for this occupation.

This is the row to read with the most caution: BLS estimates only 200 social workers employed in the state, which ranks 50th of the 50 jurisdictions that publish an employment estimate, and on a count of that size the percentile table can move sharply between releases.

So this page quotes only the row's median, hourly median and employment estimate, and the full percentile table below carries the amber caveat.

OEWS does not say why the median sits where it does, and this page does not guess.

Read an offer against the row for the occupation the job would be counted in, never against a single Wyoming therapy number, because the page has none.

The two hourly medians are $30.28 for counselors and $28.51 for mental health and substance abuse social workers, $1.77 apart.

An annual figure at the counselor median of $62,980 sits $3,630 above its national counterpart of $59,350, while a figure at the social worker median of $59,310 sits $970 below the national social worker median of $60,280 and $3,670 below the state's counselor median.

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 Wyoming jobs in that occupation.

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

The counselor row pools Wyoming's LPCs, including counselors on the provisional licence, the PPC, with substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors, so BLS publishes no LPC-only median for the state.

The social worker row mixes licence levels as well: clinical social workers holding the LCSW are counted either in this row or in healthcare social work, depending on the setting, so the $59,310 median does not describe every LCSW, and pay at the CSW level is not visible in it.

Wyoming does license marriage and family therapists, as the LMFT with a provisional licence below it, but BLS publishes no estimate for the occupation in this state, so no figure on this page describes an LMFT at all.

The counselor row rests on an employment estimate of 910, above the count this page uses to flag a row small-sample, so its full percentile spread is quotable and carries no amber note.

The mental health and substance abuse social worker row is the opposite: its employment estimate is 200, below that threshold, so the row is flagged small-sample and this page quotes only its median, hourly median and employment count in prose.

Both of Wyoming's employment estimates rank 50th of the 50 jurisdictions that publish one for their occupations.

A rank by median is a property of the state's distribution, not of any single job in it.