SALARY · EDUCATIONAL, GUIDANCE, AND CAREER COUNSELORS AND ADVISORS · ALABAMA

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors salary in Alabama

A job title alone does not tell you what you will earn. Place matters, sometimes by tens of thousands of dollars. In Alabama, educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors sat at a median of $59,570 a year, which is the figure I would use first when you compare offers.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$59,570

$29 per hour at the median · That is $4,760 (7.4 percent) below the national median of $64,330 for this occupation.

$59,540Mean annual salary
$29Mean hourly wage
$4,410People employed in this job in Alabama

Salary range

25th: $45,590Median: $59,57075th: $73,450
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$45,590
Median (50th percentile)$59,570
75th percentile$73,450
Mean$59,540

The middle half of workers earned from $45,590 to $73,450 a year. Employment size matters too. A field with many workers in a state usually means more openings and more room to move employers without moving states. A small field can pay well but offer fewer ways in.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$47,554 a year
$3,963 a month
Federal tax $4,968 · FICA $4,557 · State tax $2,490

Caveat: the Alabama 2026 Form 40 return instruction booklet was not retrieved as a single document. Brackets, standard deduction table and federal tax deduction rest on the 2026 Form 40ES worksheet and statute.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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