Bachelor's · earnings grade

Is a Clinical, Counseling degree worth it?

Graduates earn a median $32,925 two years after finishing, more than 24% of bachelor's majors. Measured across 233 US programmes by the Department of Education — real graduate pay, not survey answers.

D

The verdict on the money

Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.

Median earnings $32,925 2 years after finishing · per graduate
Typical range $28,417–$36,077 middle half of US programmes
Over no degree — vs $39,520 high-school median
Graduates a year 4,401 233 programmes

Where a Clinical, Counseling degree pays best US programmes ranked on their own graduates' median earnings two years out.

#University1 yr out2 yrs out3 yrs outGraduates/yr
1 Palo Alto University not published $66,171 $73,302 6
2 Bryant University cost & debt at this university → not published $47,260 not published 2
3 Boston College $41,046 $42,433 $50,512 133
4 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach $40,234 $41,937 $59,418 19
5 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott $40,234 $41,937 $59,418 13
6 Arizona State University Digital Immersion cost & debt at this university → not published $41,565 not published 9
7 Arizona State University Campus Immersion not published $41,565 not published 24
8 Emmanuel College cost & debt at this university → $34,393 $40,945 $45,584 34
9 Albright College cost & debt at this university → $34,365 $38,289 $41,662 14
10 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College $47,197 $38,289 not published 22
11 Thomas Jefferson University cost & debt at this university → $40,935 $37,208 not published 11
12 Florida Institute of Technology cost & debt at this university → $24,787 $37,208 $33,335 24

What this figure does and does not tell you

Two medians are worth separating. $32,925 is what the typical graduate earns — each programme counted in proportion to how many students it graduates. $31,314 is what the typical programme reports, counting a class of twenty the same as a class of two thousand. The weighted figure is higher here, which means the larger programmes in this field are the better-paying ones.

It is the median of what real graduates of this exact major earned, taken from tax records two years after they completed. It is not a starting salary, not an average of job adverts, and not a projection. The median bachelor's major in this dataset reports $36,497, so Clinical, Counseling sits below the middle by $3,572.

Two years is early in a career. Fields with long training pipelines — medicine, law, research — look weaker at this point than they will at ten, while trades and applied technical fields peak sooner. Read a low figure in a long-pipeline subject as "slow start", not "bad degree".

There is no debt figure here on purpose. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not borrowing, so nobody can honestly tell you the debt of a specific major. Debt is published per institution — that is where our university cost pages carry it.

Clinical, Counseling at other levels

Master's — $44,468 (D)

Majors that pay more at this level Closest first — useful if you are still choosing.

Natural Resources and Conservation — $31,364 Parks, Recreation — $31,366 Behavioral Sciences — $31,432 Sociology — $31,443 Foods, Nutrition — $31,468 Health Services — $31,594

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Clinical, Counseling: the questions people ask

How much do Clinical, Counseling graduates earn?
The median bachelor's graduate earns $32,925 two years after finishing (weighting each programme by how many students it graduates), across 53 US programmes that publish the figure. One year out it is $31,357.
Is a Clinical, Counseling degree worth it?
Financially it is a slower start than most majors at this level — worth planning your borrowing around.
What is the salary range for Clinical, Counseling?
Half of US programmes report medians between $28,417 and $36,077. Where you study moves this figure more than most applicants expect.
How many people graduate in Clinical, Counseling each year?
About 4,401 students complete a bachelor's in this field each year across 233 US programmes.
Does this include student debt?
No — and deliberately. The Department of Education publishes earnings by field of study but not debt, so any "debt by major" figure you see elsewhere is an estimate. Debt is published per institution, which is why our university pages carry it and this page does not.
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Classified by the Department of Education as Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (CIP 4228). Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard, field-of-study earnings (median earnings of graduates who received federal financial aid, measured 1–3 years after completion). Figures are per major and credential level, pooled across US programmes. Information only, not financial advice.