SALARY · SUBSTANCE ABUSE, BEHAVIORAL DISORDER, AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS · KENTUCKY

Substance Abuse, Behavioral Disorder, and Mental Health Counselors salary in Kentucky

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors in Kentucky, BLS put the median at $54,190 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$54,190

$26 per hour at the median · That is $5,160 (8.7 percent) below the national median of $59,350 for this occupation.

$57,560Mean annual salary
$28Mean hourly wage
$7,690People employed in this job in Kentucky

Salary range

25th: $41,730Median: $54,19075th: $72,590
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$41,730
Median (50th percentile)$54,190
75th percentile$72,590
Mean$57,560

The middle half of workers earned from $41,730 to $72,590 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

$43,943 a year
$3,662 a month
Federal tax $4,323 · FICA $4,146 · State tax $1,779

Caveat: the Kentucky form was retrieved via a reproduction, not directly from revenue.ky.gov.

Kentucky city and county occupational taxes are separate and are not in this figure.

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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