Occupation / job
Marriage and Family Therapists
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
Marriage and Family Therapists pays $66,940 at the midpoint, 34% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
Employment stands at 66,740. Marriage and Family Therapists is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.
This work suits people who can be useful to someone inside a system that is not resourced to fix their situation, and who can measure a good day in something other than resolution.
We carry no verified training length for Marriage and Family Therapists — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter of the field earns under $50,070 and a quarter over $93,840: $43,770 between them, a ratio of 1.9x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.
The 25th percentile is $50,070, $50 above the $50,020 typical American job. A floor above the national midpoint is rare, and it is worth more than an equivalent amount of upside.
Avoid it if you need to fix things. Most of this caseload cannot be fixed by anyone at your desk.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 66,740 figure counts people already working as Marriage and Family Therapists, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 1.9x — $50,070 to $93,840 — is wide enough that specialising inside Marriage and Family Therapists pays measurably. $66,940 is the middle of a range you can move within.
The middle half of this field earns between $50,070 and $93,840. That is $43,770 of range, with $66,940 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Between $50,070 and $93,840 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $66,940. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $26,900; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $43,770.
The distance from the midpoint up to $93,840 is $26,900 — well over the $16,870 down to $50,070. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Marriage and Family Therapists earns, and half the field is in that upper half.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $32.18 at the midpoint for Marriage and Family Therapists, $24.07 at the 25th percentile and $45.11 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Marriage and Family Therapists for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $66,940 describes them.
The hourly number on this page is $66,940 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Marriage and Family Therapists, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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