Monitor on Psychology - Mounting debt

Monitor on Psychology
Volume 39, No. 10 November 2008

Table of contents

Early career concerns

EARLY CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
Mounting debt
Print version: page 69

Student loans and other debt continue to be a major challenge for early career psychologists. According to the Early Career Psychologists Survey report, PsyDs had almost double the mean debt levels when compared with PhDs and EdDs. Psychologists under age 30 had the most debt. APA members tended to have lower mean debt levels than nonmembers. By subfield, family and clinical neuropsychologists had the highest debt levels.

PsyD
PhD
EdD
Under age 30
Divorced
APA members
Nonmembers
Family psychologists
Clinical neuropsychologists

$102,196
$57,791
$47,333
$95,804
$95,272
$64,750
$78,596
$73,500
$70,000

Source: 2007 APA Early Career Psychologists Survey