Of the 39,380 counseling professionals employed in Pennsylvania, 15,610 work in Aston. The number of counseling professionals in Aston has grown by 2% from 2006 to 2010. As the number of counseling professionals in Aston has increased, overall employment in Aston has also increased.

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In Aston, salaries for counseling professionals have increased. Aston counseling professionals made $49,054 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, counseling professionals in Aston made an average salary of $46,987 per year. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Aston.

Counseling professionals in Aston make a median yearly salary of $46,742. The difference in pay between the counseling professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 169%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $27,684 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $74,376 per year.

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

Many of Aston's counseling professionals are graduates of the only accredited counseling school in the city.

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

In 2010 approximately 20 students graduated from counseling courses.