SALARY EXPLORER · UPDATED 2026

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors Salary in San Francisco

See the latest available wage benchmarks for Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselorss in San Francisco, including the median, mean, employment and published percentile range.

Latest available wage reference: 2025 Page reviewed September 2026 9,520 jobs in this occupation

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San Francisco salary benchmark

Published wage distribution for Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors in San Francisco.

Median annual salary
$68,400
50th percentile
$82,100Mean / average
$6,842Mean per month
$39Mean per hour*
*Annual wage divided by 2,080 hours for a simple hourly equivalent.
U.S. comparison

The San Francisco median is +3% versus the U.S. median of $66,400 for the same occupation.

Salary distribution

The published 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages.

$48,050
10th
$55,190
25th
$68,400
50th
$107,320
75th
$132,510
90th
10th percentile
$48,050
Lower end of the published range
Median
$68,400
50th percentile
90th percentile
$132,510
Upper end of the published range
Employment
9,520
Estimated jobs in the occupation

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Questions people ask

Answers based on the wage figures shown on this page.

What is the median Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors salary in San Francisco?

The published median is $68,400 per year. The median is the 50th percentile: half of workers are below it and half are above it in the published wage distribution.

How much is the 90th percentile for Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselorss in San Francisco?

The 90th percentile is $132,510 per year. The 90th percentile means 90% of workers are at or below that wage estimate in the published distribution.

Does this salary figure include bonus or equity?

These wage estimates represent wages for the occupation and geography. They should not be treated as a complete total-compensation estimate for an individual offer; bonuses, equity and benefits may be reported separately by employers.

Where the numbers come from

This page uses the latest available Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics reference imported into LinkedInSalary. The current wage reference is May 2025.

The dataset publishes employment, mean wages and percentile wage estimates. Percentiles describe the wage distribution; the site does not infer seniority bands, bonuses, growth rates or cost-of-living adjustments from these figures.

Data source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS).

Data reference year: 2025 · Page presentation year: 2026.

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