The top 12 highest paying cities for industrial-organizational psychologists (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of industrial-organizational psychologists in those cities are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with a annual salary of $183,030, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia is the highest paying city for industrial-organizational psychologists. It is followed by Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia (average annual salary $122,430). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of industrial-organizational psychologists in a specific city, use the links in the table.
| Rank | City/Area | Average Salary i | # of Empl. i |
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| 1 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, District of Columbia | $183,030 |
100 | |
| 2 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, West Virginia | $122,430 |
190 | |
| 3 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California | $114,110 |
150 | |
| 4 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California | $112,370 |
n/a | |
| 5 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, Washington | $107,240 |
30 | |
| 6 | Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, Wisconsin | $97,230 |
80 | |
| 7 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts | $75,920 |
110 | |
| 8 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York | $75,630 |
130 | |
| 9 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts | $74,520 |
60 | |
| 10 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, Pennsylvania | $72,730 |
n/a | |
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| 11 | New York-White Plains-Wayne, New York | $72,470 |
120 | |
| 12 | Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina | $51,870 |
40 | |