Psychotherapist
Conducts structured clinical conversation over months and years. Private practice converts licence into autonomy.
- Pay band (est.)
- $59k–$98k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- desk
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 10/100
- Hours burden
- 50/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play39th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge51th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand93th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay26th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body94th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy71th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit1th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility84th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance87th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Unpaid supervised hours before licence; vicarious trauma.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 50/100 and people intensity 95/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors (21-1018): median $59,190, 90th percentile $98,210. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +18.4%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.