Speech Language Pathologist Employment Snapshot for the Top 25 U.S. Metro Areas

Speech Language Pathologist Employment Snapshot: Top 25 U.S. Metropolitan Areas

	Metropolitan Area		# Employed	Mean Annual Wage
1	New York-Newark-Jersey City		13,140	$106,030
2	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim		5,140	$100,530
3	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin		6,140	$85,570
4	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington		4,090	$82,840
5	Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land		2,580	$85,900
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria		2,350	$95,910
7	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington		2,980	$90,110
8	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach		1,730	$90,620
9	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta		1,860	$79,050
10	Boston-Cambridge-Newton		3,160	$90,810
11	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler		1,960	$86,010
12	San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley		1,590	$118,260
13	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario		1,580	$97,680
14	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn		1,530	$80,370
15	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue		1,550	$93,260
16	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington		2,410	$80,070
17	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad		1,180	$101,150
18	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater		1,540	$83,840
19	Denver-Aurora-Lakewood		2,210	$93,990
20	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson		1,820	$85,990
21	St. Louis, MO-IL		1,210	$77,870
22	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford		1,010	$81,530
23	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia		1,080	$75,870
24	San Antonio-New Braunfels		1,290	$85,150
25	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro		1,100	$89,320
	National		147,470	$85,820

Report Period:  May 2021
Top 25 U.S. Metro areas from 2020 Census
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Occupational Statistics
Data extracted on May 7, 2022

Homicides accounted for more than 24,500 deaths in the United States in 2020.  The four-state Southwestern region accounted for 3,295 homicide deaths in 2020, which was about 13.4% of the total number of homicide deaths in the U.S. that year.  At 7.7 deaths per 100,000 population, in 2020 the homicide rate in the Southwestern U.S. was slightly higher than the national homicide rate of 7.5 deaths per 100,000 population.  A closer examination of state-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following details about homicide rates in the Southwestern U.S.:

Homicide Rates in the Southwestern U.S.

State	Deaths	Population	Death Rate*
AZ	525	7,421,401	7.1
NM	216	2,106,319	10.3
OK	342	3,980,783	8.6
TX	2,212	29,360,759	7.5
Region	3,295	42,869,262	7.7
U.S.	24,576	329,484,123	7.5

(*) number of homicide deaths per 100,000 population

Report Period: 2020

Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2020 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2021. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on May 4, 2022