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Counselors, All Other · SOC 21-1019

Counselors, All Other Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$58,250
Median hourly wage$28.00

Counselors, All Other in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $58,250 per year ($28.00 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $47,770 at the 10th percentile to $196,570 at the 90th. BLS estimates 110 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Counselors, All Other in the Boston metro area earn more than $58,250 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $55,350 and $87,680.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$47,770$55,350$58,250$87,680$196,570
Hourly$22.96$26.61$28.00$42.16$94.50

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $58,250
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $58,240
  • United Statesnational
    $50,860

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs Massachusetts overall and +15% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$34,420$58,723$83,027$107,330Toledo, OH — $34,420Yuba City, CA — $35,640Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $37,390Athens-Clarke County, GA — $39,950Ann Arbor, MI — $40,270Reno, NV — $40,450Duluth, MN-WI — $40,790Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $41,560Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $42,790Boulder, CO — $43,050Pittsburgh, PA — $43,100El Paso, TX — $43,320Tallahassee, FL — $43,720Gainesville, FL — $43,780McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $44,590Charleston, WV — $44,700Jacksonville, FL — $44,940Fresno, CA — $45,180Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $45,210Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $45,440Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $45,870Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $45,880Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $45,970Hammond, LA — $46,000Lake Charles, LA — $46,000Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $46,190Killeen-Temple, TX — $46,460Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $46,640Columbus, OH — $46,930Visalia, CA — $47,280Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $47,340Modesto, CA — $47,360Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $47,920Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $47,920San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $47,970Salinas, CA — $48,200St. Louis, MO-IL — $48,290Baton Rouge, LA — $48,460New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $48,620Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $48,620Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $48,830Alexandria, LA — $49,220Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $49,320Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA — $49,390Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $49,600Monroe, LA — $49,740Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA — $51,200Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $51,260Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $51,540Corpus Christi, TX — $52,090Cleveland, OH — $52,140Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $52,300Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $52,340Jackson, TN — $52,880Johnson City, TN — $52,880Knoxville, TN — $52,880Raleigh-Cary, NC — $52,920Chattanooga, TN-GA — $53,110Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $54,240Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $54,450Lafayette, LA — $54,570Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $54,770San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $54,820Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $55,120Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $55,970Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $56,350Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $56,690Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $57,030Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $57,470Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $58,250San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $59,430Syracuse, NY — $59,990Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $60,010Tyler, TX — $60,180Vallejo, CA — $60,280Lexington Park, MD — $60,350Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $61,620Kansas City, MO-KS — $62,170Midland, TX — $62,990New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $63,300Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $64,280Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $64,500Lubbock, TX — $65,520Columbus, GA-AL — $65,540Portland-South Portland, ME — $66,140Colorado Springs, CO — $66,910Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $69,780Madison, WI — $70,300Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $70,610Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $71,650Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $71,970Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $73,380Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $77,000Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $78,740Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $79,490San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $83,930San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $91,940Ogden, UT — $93,180Richmond, VA — $98,850Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $107,330

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Boston metro area has the 31st-highest published median for this occupation among the 100 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors$62,130Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$80,760Child, Family, and School Social Workers$77,420Social and Human Service Assistants$47,530Healthcare Social Workers$78,410Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers$63,830

Highest-paying metro areas for counselors, all others · Highest-paying occupations in Boston Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.