Social Workers, All Other Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Social Workers, All Other offer sit among all 64,940 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 64,940 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. Minnesota is the largest employer at 7,240 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 27.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Minnesota, whose location quotient of 5.89 says this work is 5.89 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $68,210 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($112,740) is 2.5 times the 10th percentile ($44,530), a gap of $68,210 a year. The mean of $74,680 sitting above the median of $69,480 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Social Workers, All Other runs from the $109,220 median in Nevada down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Minnesota (7,240 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Social Workers, All Other stands number 340 by employment and number 289 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Community and Social Service Occupations, the group median wage is $59,190 across 17 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 17% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.5% of the group's 2,569,640 jobs. In 27 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $69,480, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is the largest metro employer with 4,690 jobs, 7.2% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Memphis, TN-MS-AR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $57,610 a year, against $96,390 in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Social Workers, All Other paycheck, gross, is $2,672 every two weeks on an annual $69,480, which is $5,790 a month and $1,336 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($52,010) to the 75th ($95,390) is worth $43,380 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $76,428 would sit between the median ($69,480) and the 75th percentile ($95,390), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $52,010, is $17,470 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Community and Social Service Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Health Education Specialists, Community Health Workers, Clergy, Counselors, All Other, Directors, Religious Activities and Education, Religious Workers, All Other. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.