City of Boston / Special Education / Speech & Language Pathologist
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
182 employees hold this title in Special Education. Median total compensation for the role is $122,697, above the department median of $67,307.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 182 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, the median wage for Speech-Language Pathologists — about 3,720 people — is $102,810. Special Education pays a median base salary of $120,715 for this role, 17% above that figure — about the 75th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Speech-Language Pathologists across every employer in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Special Education’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Speech-Language Pathologists — about 183,390 people — is $97,870. Special Education’s median base salary is 23% above that national figure, about the 80th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 166 of 182 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Special Education is $122,697, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Speech & Language Pathologist is held in 3 City of Boston departments. In Special Education, the median of $122,697 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Speech & Language Pathologist role in other City of Bostondepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In City of Boston, the median of $123,192 ranks #2 of 6. See Speech Language Pathologist across all of City of Boston →
Median total compensation for comparable Speech Language Pathologistroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Speech & Language Pathologist/Special Education
Source-specific fields
At Special Education, Robin Cole serves as a Speech & Language Pathologist. Their 2024 pay totaled $12,527.
Speech & Language Pathologist/Special Education
Source-specific fields
Patricia Brunner works as a Speech & Language Pathologist for Special Education. Patricia earned $10,666 in 2024.