Arizona’s speech-language pathologists in the top ten percent earned an average salary of $97,400 as of 2015 according to the state’s Office of Employment & Population Statistics. Earnings on average were $68,790 that year.
Featured Schools:
NYU Steinhardt's online MS in Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Speech@NYU, offers a comprehensive curriculum that combines research and evidence-based clinical practice in a flexible online format. Speech@NYU prepares students across the country to become creative, collaborative, and effective speech-language pathologists. Students of this program will gain the experience needed to provide care to diverse populations across the life span. Request information.
Emerson College offers an online master’s in speech-language pathology with the same curriculum as its top-ranked* on-campus program. Students are prepared to pursue SLP certification in as few as 20 months.
*U.S. News & World Report, 2018
Speech-language pathologists ranked 15th on Arizona’s list of graduate degree occupations ranked by openings, wages, growth, skills, and turnover for the ten-year period ending in 2020. The Arizona Office of Employment & Population Statistics predicts the number of jobs for SLPs will increase by 22.2% during this time frame.
The Speech-Language Pathology Profession Offers Rewarding Careers
In addition to earning high salaries, SLP has been documented to be a rewarding profession. In fact, speech-language pathology made the list of the 25 most meaningful jobs that pay well prepared from a survey of more than two million workers by the compensation specialist company PayScale.
In addition to academic SLP centers and schools that offer a broad array of therapy options, Arizona offers a number of private clinics that specialize in speech-language pathology:
Phoenix:
- A World with Words Speech & Language Therapy
- Bilingual Speech Language Pathology Services
- Kid Talk & Play
- SLP Services, Inc.
- Sonia S. Ackerman
Mesa:
- Darrell L. Jensen, MS
- E.E.K. Arizona
- Teal Door Speech Therapy
Scottsdale:
- Eat, Talk, and Play Therapy LLC
- Foundations Developmental House
Tucson:
- Jenny’s Speech & Learning Clinic
- MICELI Speech Therapy & Stuttering SolutionsTM
- Saguaro Speech & Language
- Speech Center—Southern Arizona
- Therapy Group of Tucson, PLLC
Gilbert:
- Advanced Therapy Solutions
- North Scottsdale Speech
- Suttering and Speech Therapy of Arizona
Chandler:
- Pediatric Speech & Language
- Ridge Zeller Therapy
Tempe:
- Arizona Speech Pathology
Salaries of Speech-Language Pathologists Throughout Arizona
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides detailed salary data for speech-language pathologists in Arizona’s major cities and its nonmetropolitan area as of 2015:
