Exactly 570 of the 10,250 counseling professionals employed in Minnesota, work in Bemidji. The number of counseling professionals in Bemidji has shrunk by 17% from 2006 to 2010. As the number of counseling professionals in Bemidji has decreased, overall employment in Bemidji has increased.

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In Bemidji, salaries for counseling professionals have increased. In 2010 an average salary of $49,190 per year was earned by counseling professionals in Bemidji. Counseling professionals in Bemidji made a yearly average salary of $44,856, four years earlier in 2006. This growth is slower than the salary trend for all careers in Bemidji.

Counseling professionals make a median salary of $47,532 per year in Bemidji. The difference in pay between the counseling professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 114%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $32,450 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $69,398 per year.

Counseling professional salaries in Bemidji are, on average, lower than salaries earned for professionals in related fields.

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

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

In 2010 approximately 2 students graduated from counseling courses.