School District of Philadelphia / Office of Specialized Services / School Psychologist
Job-title file
School Psychologist
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
17 employees hold this title in Office of Specialized Services. Median total compensation for the role is $139,122, above the department median of $130,302.
- Employees
- 17
- Total payroll
- $2.4M
- Role median
- $139,122
- Agency median
- $130,302
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 17 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
School Psychologist pay vs. the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area
Across all employers in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, the median wage for School Psychologists — about 1,690 people — is $82,190. Office of Specialized Services pays a median base salary of $139,122 for this role, 69% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Office of Specialized Services sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for School Psychologists across every employer in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Office of Specialized Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for School Psychologists — about 63,940 people — is $95,990. Office of Specialized Services’s median base salary is 45% above that national figure, about the 88th 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Office of Specialized Services is $139,122, 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
This role across School District of Philadelphia
School Psychologist is held in 2 School District of Philadelphia departments. In Office of Specialized Services, the median of $139,122 ranks #1 of 2.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the School Psychologist role in other School District of Philadelphiadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
School Psychologist beyond School District of Philadelphia
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In School District of Philadelphia, the median of $116,256 ranks #3 of 6. See School Psychologist across all of School District of Philadelphia →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable School Psychologistroles 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.
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