Exactly 180 of Michigan's 12,250 counseling professionals work in Allendale. Between 2006 and 2010, the number of counseling professionals in Allendale has grown by 80%. As the number of counseling professionals in Allendale has increased, overall employment in Allendale has decreased.

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In Allendale, salaries for counseling professionals have decreased. Allendale counseling professionals made $53,940 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, counseling professionals in Allendale made an average salary of $54,740 per year. This decline is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Allendale.

Counseling professionals make a median salary of $56,595 per year in Allendale. The 10% of counseling professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $33,645 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 108% higher salaries.

Allendale counseling professionals have earnings that are higher than the salaries earned by others in related fields, on average.

There is only one accredited counseling school in the city. Many of Allendale's counseling professionals are graduates of this school.

Allendale's counseling school offers one counseling degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 30 students graduated from counseling courses.