Of the 26,480 human services professionals employed in New Jersey, 5,170 work in South Orange. There has been a 6% growth in the number of human services professionals in South Orange between the years 2006 and 2010. Overall employment in South Orange has also increased.

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In South Orange, salaries for human services professionals have increased. South Orange human services professionals made $48,614 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, human services professionals in South Orange made an average salary of $41,160 per year. The growth in the salary of human services professionals in South Orange is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals make a median salary of $46,558 per year in South Orange. The 10% of human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $31,076 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately $70,542 per year.

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

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

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

Approximately 7 students graduated from human services courses in 2010.