Exactly 1,090 of the 36,260 social workers employed in Pennsylvania, work in Bloomsburg. There has been a 85% growth in the number of social workers in Bloomsburg between the years 2006 and 2010. Overall employment in Bloomsburg has also increased.

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In Bloomsburg, salaries for social workers have decreased. Bloomsburg social workers made $33,023 per year, on average, in 2010. Four years earlier in 2006, the average salary for social workers in Bloomsburg was $38,000 per year. The decline in the salary of social workers in Bloomsburg is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Social workers in Bloomsburg make a median yearly salary of $31,473. The difference in pay between the social workers in the lowest pay bracket and those in the highest pay bracket is approximately 117%. Those in the lowest 10% of the pay bracket earn less than $21,517 per year, while those in the highest 10% of the pay bracket earn more than $46,587 per year.

On average social workers in Bloomsburg earn salaries that are lower than the salaries earned by other professionals in Bloomsburg.

Many of Bloomsburg's social workers are graduates of the only accredited social work school in the city.

Bloomsburg's social work school offers one social work degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 57 students graduated from social work courses.