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Speech Language Pathologist Overview - Preparation - Day In The Life - Earnings - Employment - Career Path Forecast - Professional Organizations


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:

Nursing care facilities

$79,120

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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