850+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Direct local data says the broad occupation group averaged about $31.89 an hour in May 2025, slightly above the local all-occupation average of $30.49. Newer posting-based signals are higher but narrower: Atlanta ads recently centered on about $71k to $89k, the median advertised midpoint was $87,500 across 456 pay-disclosing openings, and some fully licensed clinical social work roles advertised $100,000–$110,000.

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Advertised pay

Across the 492 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $68,640 at the 25th percentile, $87,500 at the median and $94,042 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 25, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

Atlanta is a good but selective market for social services, counseling, and community work over the next 3-6 months. Metro unemployment was 3.2% in July 2026, local employment was up 1.1652% year over year, and the labor force was up 0.9296%. For this occupation family, Georgia employment is up 1.2% year over year, but active postings are down 6.6% statewide, which points to real demand with tighter screening than a year ago. The best openings are clustering in healthcare, hospitals, home health, and licensed behavioral health rather than broad remote generalist work.

Best positioned: Candidates with MSW/LMSW/LCSW or comparable counseling licensure, strong case-management and documentation experience, and openness to on-site or hybrid healthcare settings have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming this is a remote-friendly field in Atlanta; about 85% of sampled postings were on-site and only about 5% were remote.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 881 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Upstream Rehabilitation Inc.: 54 open roles
2. BenchMark PT: 50 open roles
3. Amedisys, Inc.: 30 open roles
4. Emory Healthcare: 24 open roles
5. PT Solutions: 24 open roles
6. Wellstar Health System, Inc.: 23 open roles
7. Physio: 22 open roles
8. Team Rehabilitation Services, LLC: 21 open roles
9. PruittHealth: 20 open roles
10. Physiotherapyassociates: 18 open roles

Where the openings are

• Atlanta: 203
• Marietta: 67
• Lawrenceville: 36
• Decatur: 35
• Kennesaw: 34
• Roswell: 31
• Austell: 27
• Alpharetta: 24

Work arrangement

on-site 774 (90%), hybrid 60 (7%), remote 23 (3%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in healthcare-adjacent social service work. In the local posting sample, about 45% of openings came from healthcare and another about 25% from hospitals and health care, while non-profit accounted for about 5%. That lines up with named active employers such as Piedmont Healthcare, Inc., CenterWell Home Health, Visiting Nurse Health System, Amedisys, Inc., Ennoble Care, and Thriveworks. The good news is that the market is not dominated by a single employer. Hiring is fragmented across employers in the sample, and more than 200 postings were observed across more than 100 companies over the last 90 days. The more specialized pockets are worth attention: licensed outpatient counseling roles, hospice and home-health social work, and oversight roles such as clinical surveyor openings. Community and senior-serving mental health work is also getting a small boost from the TACC-Lutheran Towers partnership in Midtown.

• Hospital and home-health social work (high): Healthcare dominates the local mix, and repeated employer activity from Piedmont Healthcare, Inc., CenterWell Home Health, Visiting Nurse Health System, Amedisys, Inc., and Ennoble Care points to the clearest near-term demand pocket.
• Licensed behavioral health and outpatient counseling (moderate): This lane pays well, but it usually expects full licensure and at least some in-person availability; local examples include fully licensed hybrid counseling roles and six-figure licensed clinical social work ads.
• Community and nonprofit program work (moderate): These roles are real but smaller in share than healthcare-led demand; YMCA Atlanta is a recurring employer, and community mental-health expansion around Lutheran Towers may create targeted openings for senior-serving and underserved-population work.

Where to focus: Start with healthcare-linked case management and social work roles, then layer in outpatient counseling and mission-driven community organizations if your license or population experience makes you credible there.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient navigator / care coordinator: Local demand is heavily healthcare-linked, and the same postings ask for case management, patient assessment, patient education, and advocacy that transfer well into navigator work.
• Behavioral health intake coordinator: Documentation, patient assessment, crisis intervention, and hybrid outpatient workflows overlap strongly with counseling-support work in the current Atlanta market.
• Quality or compliance surveyor in care settings: Recent Atlanta openings included clinical surveyor roles alongside traditional social-work openings, showing a path into oversight and quality work.
• Nonprofit program operations coordinator: YMCA Atlanta is one of the most consistently active local employers, and nonprofits increasingly value outcomes tracking and digital workflow skills alongside people-facing experience.

What postings ask for

• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most common hard skill in the local sample, appearing in about 45% of postings, and it transfers across hospital, home-health, and community roles. Who: Everyone in direct-service, care-coordination, or program roles.
• Clinical documentation (table_stakes | immediate): Clinical documentation showed up in about 20% of local postings, and documentation more broadly appeared in about 15%, which is a strong signal that employers want people who can keep records clean and audit-ready. Who: Entry-level applicants, career switchers, and anyone moving into healthcare settings.
• Georgia clinical licensure (LCSW, LPC, LMFT) or social-work licensure path (premium | immediate): Fully licensed candidates are being pulled into better-paying counseling roles, and one metro outpatient employer explicitly required LCSW, LPC, or LMFT for hybrid work while local job ads also highlighted six-figure licensed clinical social work pay ranges. Who: Mid-career counselors, social workers finishing supervision, and anyone targeting behavioral health.
• CPR certification (differentiator | near-term): CPR certification was the most commonly named certification in the local sample at about 15%, which suggests it helps in medically adjacent and field-based roles. Who: Hospital, home-health, youth-services, and crisis-facing candidates.
• Crisis intervention and patient assessment (differentiator | immediate): Crisis intervention and patient assessment each appeared in about 20% of postings, showing that employers want people who can triage, stabilize, and document decisions quickly. Who: Behavioral-health applicants, intake staff, and community workers moving into acute or high-needs populations.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration and patient advocacy (differentiator | near-term): Interdisciplinary collaboration and patient advocacy each appeared in about 15% of local postings, which matters in hospital discharge planning, home health, and cross-agency service coordination. Who: Mid-career social workers, case managers, and switchers coming from customer-facing or benefits-facing work.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

Direct local data says the broad occupation group averaged about $31.89 an hour in May 2025, slightly above the local all-occupation average of $30.49. Newer posting-based signals are higher but narrower: Atlanta ads recently centered on about $71k to $89k, the median advertised midpoint was $87,500 across 456 pay-disclosing openings, and some fully licensed clinical social work roles advertised $100,000–$110,000. Atlanta can pay well for specialized practitioners, especially because the metro's regional price parity was 100.1, essentially at the national average. But the field's broad local average still looks more like solid middle-income pay than automatic six figures.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in healthcare-adjacent social service work. In the local posting sample, about 45% of openings came from healthcare and another about 25% from hospitals and health care, while non-profit accounted for about 5%. That lines up with named active employers such as Piedmont Healthcare, Inc., CenterWell Home Health, Visiting Nurse Health System, Amedisys, Inc., Ennoble Care, and Thriveworks. The good news is that the market is not dominated by a single employer. Hiring is fragmented across employers in the sample, and more than 200 postings were observed across more than 100 companies over the last 90 days. The more specialized pockets are worth attention: licensed outpatient counseling roles, hospice and home-health social work, and oversight roles such as clinical surveyor openings. Community and senior-serving mental health work is also getting a small boost from the TACC-Lutheran Towers partnership in Midtown.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA?

Recent postings show the most activity from YMCA Atlanta (10 postings), CenterWell Home Health (10 postings), Visiting Nurse Health System (10 postings), Thriveworks (10 postings), Piedmont Healthcare, Inc. (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 10% hybrid, with 85% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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