Human Services Career Salary Data

Social and Human Service Assistant - $17,400

Social and human service assistants help social workers, health care workers, and other professionals provide services to people. Social and human service assistant is a generic term for workers with a wide array of job titles, including human service worker, case management aide, social work assistant, community support worker, mental health aide, community outreach worker, life skills counselor, or gerontology aide. They usually work under the direction of workers from a variety of fields, such as nursing, psychiatry, psychology, rehabilitative or physical therapy, or social work. The amount of responsibility and supervision they are given varies a great deal. Some have little direct supervision such as running a group home. Others work under close direction.

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Eligibility Interviewer - $26,400

Eligibility interviewers in government programs determine the eligibility of individuals applying to receive government assistance, such as welfare, unemployment benefits, Social Security benefits, and public housing. These interviewers gather the relevant personal and financial information about an applicant and, on the basis of the rules and regulations of the particular government program will grant, modify, deny, or terminate an individual’s eligibility for the program. They also help to detect fraud committed by people who try to obtain benefits that they are not eligible to receive.

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Counselor - $27,240

Counselors assist people with personal, family, educational, mental health, and career problems. Their duties vary greatly depending on their occupational specialty, which is determined by the setting in which they work and the population they serve.