Psychology

What the occupations pay

Median annual wage across the occupations this field of study leads to, from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024). The middle range is the 25th–75th percentile of those occupation medians — it describes the field, not any one job or graduate.

AI exposure of this field of study

Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across the occupations this field of study leads to it is 45% — 60th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.15 here.

Computed across the 21 of 23 occupations this field leads to that carry a published exposure score.

The most-exposed fields of study lead to knowledge, language and analytical work; the least-exposed lead to physical trades and hands-on production. Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks, not a prediction that these jobs will be automated; high exposure most often means augmentation. Bands are comparable across the cluster, education, job-zone and field-of-study tiers (same two studies, same percentile method).

Where this field of study leads

The largest occupations connected to this field by the CIP–SOC crosswalk, by employment. Wage and employment describe the occupation, not an individual.

Programs in this field

A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 31 programs.

• 42.2814 Applied Behavior Analysis
• 42.2813 Applied Psychology
• 42.2706 Behavioral Neuroscience
• 42.2807 Clinical Child Psychology
• 42.2801 Clinical Psychology
• 42.2899 Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology, Other
• 42.2701 Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics
• 42.2802 Community Psychology
• 42.2702 Comparative Psychology
• 42.2803 Counseling Psychology
• 42.2710 Developmental and Adolescent Psychology
• 42.2703 Developmental and Child Psychology
• 42.2806 Educational Psychology
• 42.2808 Environmental Psychology
• 42.2704 Experimental Psychology
• 42.2811 Family Psychology
• 42.2812 Forensic Psychology
• 42.2809 Geropsychology
• 42.2810 Health/Medical Psychology
• 42.2804 Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• 42.2815 Performance and Sport Psychology
• 42.2705 Personality Psychology
• 42.0101 Psychology, General
• 42.9999 Psychology, Other
• 42.2708 Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
• 42.2709 Psychopharmacology
• 42.2799 Research and Experimental Psychology, Other
• 42.2805 School Psychology
• 42.2707 Social Psychology
• 42.2816 Somatic Psychology

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• CIP-2020 2020 U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
• AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic

Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-psychology,
  title  = {Psychology},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/programs/psychology}
}