SALARY · EDUCATIONAL, GUIDANCE, AND CAREER COUNSELORS AND ADVISORS · WEST VIRGINIA

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors salary in West Virginia

If West Virginia is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors was $55,520. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$55,520

$27 per hour at the median · That is $8,810 (13.7 percent) below the national median of $64,330 for this occupation.

$55,100Mean annual salary
$26Mean hourly wage
$1,260People employed in this job in West Virginia

Salary range

25th: $44,700Median: $55,52075th: $62,220
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$44,700
Median (50th percentile)$55,520
75th percentile$62,220
Mean$55,100

The middle half of workers earned from $44,700 to $62,220 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$46,790 a year
$3,899 a month
Federal tax $4,482 · FICA $4,247

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for West Virginia is not included, because the full 2026 state table for West Virginia has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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