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Marriage and Family Therapists

United States. Estimated employment 66,740, with pages for 6 metro areas below.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 21-1013
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$66,940 · 50th
$44,65010th
$50,07025th
$66,94050th
$93,84075th
$123,73090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in the US earn more.

Table 1 — By metro area

Where it pays

Every published Marriage and Family Therapists page, by median pay. Employment is the BLS estimate for the metro.

Metro areaMedianEmployment
San Jose, CA$95,1101,180
Vallejo, CA$93,810150
Santa Maria, CA$85,450220
Santa Rosa, CA$84,080290
Sacramento, CA$75,0301,380
Los Angeles, CA$71,11013,200
Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Employment
66,740 employed in this occupation nationally (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 21-1013, Marriage and Family Therapists. Mapped to our taxonomy as marriage-and-family-therapists.

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