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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
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$79,120
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Home health care services
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77,030
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General medical and surgical hospitals
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68,430
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Offices of other health practitioners
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67,910
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Elementary and secondary schools
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58,140
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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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