Speech and Language Pathologist pay range
State of North Carolina · class code 32000681
- Class code
- 32000681
- Pay group
- MH17
- Pay unit
- Year
- State
- North Carolina
- The State of North Carolina published pay range for Speech and Language Pathologist is $66,696 to $110,049 per year.
- North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) keys this classification as class code 32000681.
- This is the range the plan authorises, not the salary of any individual employee.
Class specification
The OSHR class specification for this class is published by North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR). The passages below are quoted from it as published, not paraphrased, and cut to their opening sentences; the full specification is the authority on duties and qualifications. It was last revised 06/2018.
What the state says the job is
This is professional speech and language work in diagnostic evaluations and therapeutic programs serving children and/or adults with speech and/or language communicative disorders. Work involves testing, evaluating, and counseling and instructing to habilitate or rehabilitate the development and disorders of speech, voice, or language for the purpose of identifying, preventing, improving, or modifying such disorders. Work has been identified in outpatient, inpatient, and clinic settings. Work may involve consultation with a variety of clients, clients' parents, families, physicians, and other professional disciplines or agencies.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Working knowledge of the agency, institution goals and treatment programs; of available referral resources. Considerable knowledge of the application of professional speech and language pathology theory, techniques, principles, and procedures; the work unit and the unit policies and procedures; various communicative disorders peculiar to the group of clients served; Ability to administer and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests to determine range, nature and/or degree of communication skills. Ability to formulate, interpret, and implement therapeutic treatment programs applicable to client group served; to express one's self in oral and written form and to maintain client records and chart ...
Minimum qualifications
Licensed by the Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologist. <h2
Quoted from the OSHR class specification, read 2026-10-21.
Where this comes from
North Carolina Office of State Human Resources (OSHR) publishes this figure in OSHR salary schedules, joined to Class Specifications. Every number on this page is read from that document; nothing is estimated, modelled or averaged.
Job titles and their salary grades come from the Class Specifications, joined to the salary schedule.