Of the 12,330 human services professionals employed in Indiana, 600 work in Marion. There has been a 18% growth in the number of human services professionals in Marion between the years 2006 and 2010. Overall employment in Marion has also increased.

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In Marion, salaries for human services professionals have increased. Marion human services professionals made $34,668 per year, on average, in 2010. Human services professionals in Marion made a yearly average salary of $32,630, four years earlier in 2006. The growth in the salary of human services professionals in Marion is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals in Marion earn a median salary of $31,952 per year. The difference in pay between the human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 113%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $22,760 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $48,394 per year.

Human services professional salaries in Marion are, on average, lower than salaries earned for professionals in related fields.

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

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

In 2010 approximately 23 students completed human services courses.