 Employment
and Earnings
Speech-language
pathologists hold about 119,300 jobs in the United States. About half
are employed in educational services, primarily in preschools and
elementary and secondary schools. Others are employed in hospitals;
offices of other health practitioners, including speech-language
pathologists; nursing care facilities; home health care services;
individual and family services; outpatient care centers; and child day
care centers. A few speech-language pathologists are self-employed in
private practice. They contract to provide services in schools, offices
of physicians, hospitals, or nursing care facilities, or work as
consultants to industry.
Median annual earnings of
wage-and-salary speech-language pathologists are about $62,930. The
middle 50 percent earned between $50,330 and $79,620. The lowest 10
percent earned less than $41,240, and the highest 10 percent earned more
than $99,220. Median annual wages in the industries employing the
largest numbers of speech-language pathologists are:
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Nursing care
facilities |
$79,120 |
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Home health
care services |
77,030 |
|
General
medical and surgical hospitals |
68,430 |
|
Offices of
other health practitioners |
67,910 |
|
Elementary
and secondary schools |
58,140 |
Some employers may
reimburse speech-language pathologists for their required continuing
education credits.
Note: Some resources in this section are provided by the US Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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