The annual salary statistics of speech-language pathologists in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California is shown in Table 1. The wage information of speech-language pathologists in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2022 and published in April 2023 [1].
| Percentile Bracket | Average Annual Salary |
|---|---|
| 10th Percentile Wage | $75,990 |
| 25th Percentile Wage | $84,140 |
| 50th Percentile Wage | $104,450 |
| 75th Percentile Wage | $126,810 |
| 90th Percentile Wage | $132,000 |
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for speech-language pathologists in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 90th percentile (the top 10 percent of the highest paid) is $132,000. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $104,450. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent earners is $75,990.
The table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of speech-language pathologists from 2012 to 2022.
| Year | Median Salary | Yearly Growth | 10-Year Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $104,450 | 3.69% | 15.80% |
| 2021 | $100,600 | 8.63% | - |
| 2020 | $91,920 | 1.78% | - |
| 2019 | $90,280 | 1.09% | - |
| 2018 | $89,300 | -6.02% | - |
| 2017 | $94,680 | 7.11% | - |
| 2016 | $87,950 | 1.77% | - |
| 2015 | $86,390 | -1.81% | - |
| 2012 | $87,950 | - | - |
From Table 3 we note that the median annual salary of $104,450 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is in the middle of salary range for speech-language pathologists in state of California. In comparison, the annual salary of speech-language pathologists in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 15.0 percent (15.0%) lower than that in the highest paying San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont and 26.7 percent (26.7%) higher than that in the lowest paying Mother Lode Region of California nonmetropolitan area.