SALARY · EDUCATIONAL, GUIDANCE, AND CAREER COUNSELORS AND ADVISORS · NORTH CAROLINA

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors salary in North Carolina

If you are weighing a move, or weighing whether to stay, this is the number that matters first. In North Carolina, the middle educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors earned $57,630 a year in the latest BLS release. Half earned more than that and half earned less, so treat it as a realistic middle point, not a promise and not a ceiling.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$57,630

$28 per hour at the median · That is $6,700 (10.4 percent) below the national median of $64,330 for this occupation.

$56,710Mean annual salary

$27Mean hourly wage

$9,430People employed in this job in North Carolina

Salary range

25th: $46,820Median: $57,63075th: $63,460

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$46,820
Median (50th percentile)	$57,630
75th percentile	$63,460
Mean	$56,710

The middle half of workers earned from $46,820 to $63,460 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$46,695 a year

$3,891 a month

Federal tax $4,736 · FICA $4,409 · State tax $1,791

Caveat: the North Carolina rate is from NCDOR, but the $12,750 deduction comes from the statute text, not an NCDOR deduction page.

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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