SLP Career Advice

What to know about SLP jobs and pay

Speech–language pathologists need to understand the real drivers of our pay, what’s legal, and what’s possible in our current SLP job market. These resources help SLPs understand job options better so we can be better prepared to care for ourselves, our clients, and our field.

COMPENSATION (for US-based SLPs)

We highly recommend consuming each of the following articles in the order they are listed, so that you don’t have gaps in your understanding that impact your ability to be fairly paid:

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Pay: The basics

Pay: Choosing a job

Pay: Advanced

What do speech–language pathologists' contracts look like?

You can't understand pay if you don't first understand how you're paid! And compared to other professions, SLP contracts are surprisingly diverse and complicated. But it's a crucial first step when searching for and comparing jobs.

What’s the difference between 1099 and W2 for SLPs?

How you’re classified (or misclassified) impacts both your pay and how you work. We help SLPs understand the difference between 1099 and W2.

Why PPV (pay-per-visit) roles complicate your ability to predict pay

We’ll explain why this is difficult (or impossible) in most jobs databases, plus what question you can ask employers, and how we’ve fixed it at Informed Jobs!

What’s the average pay for a speech–language pathologist?

View our SLP-submitted wage data, so you can be better informed. And share your wages with fellow SLPs, too!

How to avoid inaccurate wage data for SLPs

The internet is often very wrong about SLP pay. We’ll show you which data sources to use, which to avoid, and how to interpret wage norms for SLPs.

What “Informed Pay” means

1099 vs W2, hourly vs salary, benefits vs not…. Many things impact the true value of a job. Informed Pay is our unique metric of hourly value that helps you compare jobs directly to each other. It’s our “we do the math for you” feature!

How to calculate take-home pay as an SLP

Searching for a job not on our website? We built you a pay calculator to help you estimate your pay.

Job Quality

What is SLP "productivity" and how is it measured?

For Med SLPs in particular, productivity will become something that drives how you spend your work hours.

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