Massachusetts / Psychiatric Social Worker
Role across Massachusetts
Psychiatric Social Worker
Assess client needs, develop service plans, and connect people with support resources.
18 people hold the Psychiatric Social Worker role across 1 department in Massachusetts, with a median total compensation of $80,325. Among 5 jurisdictions where this role is reported, Massachusetts ranks #2 by median pay.
- Employees
- 18
- Median pay
- $80,325
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #2 of 5
Compared with the local labor market
Psychiatric Social Worker pay vs. Massachusetts
Across all employers in Massachusetts, the median wage for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers — about 7,440 people — is $62,500. Massachusetts pays a median base salary of $82,170 for this role, 31% above that figure — about the 77th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Massachusetts sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers across every employer in Massachusetts, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Massachusetts’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers — about 132,810 people — is $60,280. Massachusetts’s median base salary is 36% above that national figure, about the 76th 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 Massachusetts range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 15 of 18 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 Massachusetts is $80,325, 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 jurisdictions
Psychiatric Social Worker pay in other jurisdictions
Where Psychiatric Social Workers are paid most
Median total compensation for comparable Psychiatric Social Workerroles in other jurisdictions (highest first). Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not by identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for this role.