Careers and Opportunities
Associate Degree in Psychology
Salary
Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisor, $89,040.95
Marriage and Family Therapist, $44,662.33
Psychiatric Technicians, $69,909.85
Psychologists, All Other, $106,379.70
Psychology Teacher, Postsecondary, $99,925.13
Social and Human Service Assistants, $38,816.57
Social Science Research Assistants, $53,866.68
Source: EMSI, 2021.1 dataset for San Bernardino and Riverside counties
Career Info
An associate in arts in psychology degree can lead to a career working in research, teaching, counseling, human services, marketing, management, emergency services and law, among others. It is also the foundation for four-year college studies in psychology.
Potential Careers
- Psychiatric technician
- Residential treatment aide
- Orderly
- Patient care technician
- Behavioral specialist
- Crisis hotline operator
- Clinical psychologist
- Child psychologist
- Sports psychologist
- Forensic psychologist
- Health psychologist
- Organizational psychologist
- Guidance counselor
- Teacher
- Human resources specialist
- Social worker
- Marriage and family therapist
- Market research analyst
