Where are the job openings for licensed psychologists?

In 2014, there were 12,362 online job postings for licensed (or license-eligible) psychologists in the United States, according to online labor market data provider Burning Glass Technologies.¹

• Of those postings that specified an industry,² 49 percent were in health care and social assistance, 23 percent were in public administration, 19 percent were in educational services and 9 percent were in other industries.
• New York City (572), Chicago (481), San Francisco (380), Seattle (333), and Los Angeles (290) had the most job postings.
• Cities with the most job postings per 100,000 population³ (see figure) were Fairbanks, Alaska (40); Manhattan, Kansas (38); Mankato, Minnesota (29); St. Cloud, Minnesota (28); and Iowa City, Iowa (26).
  
  
  

—Luona Lin, MPP, M. Cameron Hatcher, Peggy Christidis, PhD, and Karen Stamm, PhD

For more information, contact APA's Center for Workforce Studies.

¹ Burning Glass Technologies. (2015). Labor/Insight. [Online analytic application]. Retrieved from https://laborinsight.burning-glass.com/jobs/us#/opens in new window. Postings were retrieved using O*NET codes and include psychologists, clinical psychologists, counseling psychologists, school psychologists, neuropsychologists, clinical neuropsychologists, and industrial-organizational psychologists. Only postings with keywords “license,” “licensed,” “licensure” or “license-eligible” were included.

²  84 percent of the job postings specified an industry. Industry categorization was based on the North American Industry Classification System.

³ U.S. Census Bureau. (2014). Annual estimates of the resident population: April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2014. Retrieved from www.census.gov/popest/data/metro/totals/2014/CBSA-EST2014-alldata.htmlopens in new window