Exactly 460 of the 13,630 human services professionals employed in Louisiana, work in Metairie. There has been a 10% decline in the number of human services professionals in Metairie between the years 2006 and 2010. Overall employment in Metairie has increased.

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As the number of human services professionals in Metairie has shrunk, salaries for human services professionals have increased. In 2010 human services professionals in Metairie reportedly earned an average salary of $37,047 per year. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for human services professionals in Metairie was $36,437 per year. The growth in the salary of human services professionals in Metairie is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals in Metairie make a median yearly salary of $36,490. The 10% of human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $20,197 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately $57,097 per year.

On average human services professional salaries in Metairie are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

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

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

Approximately 2 students completed human services courses in 2010.