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Counselors, All Other · SOC 21-1019

Counselors, All Other Salary in the Washington Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area

Figures describe the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Washington city limits.

Median annual wage$70,610
Median hourly wage$33.95

Counselors, All Other in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area earned a median of $70,610 per year ($33.95 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $39,740 at the 10th percentile to $136,640 at the 90th. BLS estimates 540 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Counselors, All Other in the Washington metro area earn more than $70,610 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $54,500 and $99,520.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$39,740$54,500$70,610$99,520$136,640
Hourly$19.11$26.20$33.95$47.85$65.69

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

  • Washington metro areathis metro area
    $70,610
  • District of Columbiastate (DC)
    $93,720
  • United Statesnational
    $50,860

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

The median here is −25% vs District of Columbia overall and +39% 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 Washington metro area has the 12th-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$65,270Social and Human Service Assistants$48,370Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$77,420Child, Family, and School Social Workers$75,550Rehabilitation Counselors$48,290Healthcare Social Workers$80,710

Highest-paying metro areas for counselors, all others · Highest-paying occupations in Washington 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.