what is a psychologist salary
National Salary. The national mean annual salary for psychiatrists was $174,170 as of May 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By comparison, clinical, counseling and school psychologists earned mean annual salaries of $73,090, and industrial-organizational psychologists earned $124,160 per year. A psychiatrist's average hourly wage was $83.73, compared to $35.14 for clinical, counseling and school psychologists and $59.69 for industrial-organizational psychologists.