Exactly 270 of the 13,630 human services professionals employed in Louisiana, work in Hammond. Between 2006 and 2010, in Hammond, there has been a 59% growth in the number of human services professionals. As the number of human services professionals in Hammond has increased, overall employment in Hammond has also increased.

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As the number of human services professionals in Hammond has grown, salaries for human services professionals have also increased. Hammond human services professionals made $41,573 per year, on average, in 2010. Human services professionals in Hammond made a yearly average salary of $30,100, four years earlier in 2006. The growth in the salary of human services professionals in Hammond is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals in Hammond make a median yearly salary of $42,173. The 10% of human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $24,153 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately $58,193 per year.

On average human services professionals in Hammond earn salaries that are lower than the salaries earned by other professionals in Hammond.

Many of Hammond's human services professionals are graduates of the only accredited human services school in the city.

Hammond's human services school offers one human services degree and certificate program.

Approximately 38 students graduated from human services courses in 2010.