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In 2011, social workers earned an average of just over $54,000 a year. Because higher salaries paid in psychiatric hospitals, substance abuse settings and other specialized facilities can skew this statistic, median wage is a better predictor of earnings.
The median annual wage for social workers was $46,890 in May 2016. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $28,800, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $78,510. Median annual wages for social workers in May 2016 were as follows: