350+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Government data puts the broad Minneapolis community and social service group at a $32.35 mean hourly wage, while the wider SOC 21-0000 family shows a $62,210 median annual wage and a $67,290 mean annual wage for 2025. Separate posting data from the Callings.ai job database shows listed salaries centered on about $68k to $85k, with hourly-paid roles centered on about $26 to $34 / hour.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 307 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $63,440 at the 25th percentile, $83,200 at the median and $97,469 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is still a real market, but not an easy one. The strongest local backdrop is in care-delivery settings: Minneapolis education and health services employment rose 2.8682% year over year in August 2026, and Minnesota employment in this occupation family was up 1.0% year over year in September 2026. At the same time, metro unemployment reached 4.7% in August 2026 and Minnesota active postings for this occupation family were down 9.1% year over year, which suggests more competition per opening than a year ago. The Callings.ai job database still observed more than 125 postings across more than 50 companies over the last 90 days, with demand spread across healthcare, hospitals, mental health care, nonprofits, and education rather than one dominant employer.

Best positioned: Mid-career candidates who can show LICSW or closely related licensure, strong case management and crisis intervention experience, and willingness to work on-site in healthcare or community-based settings have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming this is a remote-friendly or broad public-sector hiring wave; about 70% of sampled roles were on-site, remote roles were about 5%, and Minneapolis was also operating under a hiring freeze with limited exceptions.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 390 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Fairview Health Services: 27 open roles
2. HealthPartners: 14 open roles
3. Allina Health: 12 open roles
4. St. Croix Hospice: 12 open roles
5. Evolve Therapy Services: 10 open roles
6. Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: 10 open roles
7. LifeStance Health Inc.: 10 open roles
8. North Memorial Health: 10 open roles
9. Mt Olivet Rolling Acres: 9 open roles
10. Children: 8 open roles

Where the openings are

• Minneapolis: 88
• Saint Paul: 50
• Burnsville: 19
• Bloomington: 18
• Edina: 12
• Plymouth: 11
• Saint Louis Park: 10
• Maple Grove: 10

Work arrangement

on-site 308 (81%), hybrid 60 (16%), remote 11 (3%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not spread evenly across the metro. In the Callings.ai sample, healthcare accounted for about 35% of local postings and hospitals and health care for about 30%, with mental health care adding about 10%. BLS also shows Minneapolis education and health services employment at 398.1 thousand in August 2026, up 2.8682% year over year, which is the clearest large-sector growth backdrop for this category. That shifts the practical search strategy. Employers most often asked for case management, crisis intervention, documentation, clinical documentation, care coordination, interdisciplinary collaboration, care planning, and treatment planning. The named employers in the sample reinforce that provider-side tilt, with Fairview Health Services, People Incorporated, Gotham Enterprises Ltd, and Summit Home Health Care, Inc. among the most consistently active organizations. Community-facing work is still present, but it shows up more through funding and capacity signals than a single obvious hiring boom. Recent examples include the VA's $187,500 award to Westcare Minnesota Inc., Hennepin County's four-year youth mental-health grant renewal, and the addition of 55 shelter beds in the Twin Cities.

• Healthcare systems and hospitals (high): This is the biggest target zone right now: about 35% of sampled postings came from healthcare and about 30% from hospitals and health care, with Fairview Health Services visible in the mix.
• Community mental health and crisis-response providers (high): Mental health care represented about 10% of sampled postings, and Minneapolis is preparing a behavioral-crisis provider transition under a proposed $5.9 million contract beginning January 1, 2027.
• Shelter, housing, and family-support nonprofits (moderate): Nonprofit organizations were about 5% of sampled postings, but local capacity signals remain active through a four-year youth mental-health grant renewal and 55 added shelter beds.
• Education-linked counseling and support roles (limited): Education represented about 5% of sampled postings, so opportunities exist but are thinner than in healthcare-linked settings.

Where to focus: Prioritize on-site provider-side roles in healthcare, hospitals, community mental health, and shelter-linked services before chasing scarce remote openings or waiting on public-sector hiring to loosen.

Roles worth searching next

• Patient navigator or care coordinator: These roles reuse the same documentation, care coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills that show up repeatedly in the local sample, and they fit the metro's healthcare-heavy demand mix.
• Behavioral health intake or admissions coordinator: This path stays close to counseling and behavioral health while leaning more on triage, documentation, and access management than on therapy delivery.
• Benefits or eligibility specialist: Minnesota's shift of Behavioral Health Fund eligibility determinations to the state makes public-program access work a logical neighboring path for people with service-navigation strengths.
• Nonprofit program operations coordinator: Recent local grant and shelter-capacity activity suggests room for people who can support program delivery, reporting, and coordination even if they are not in front-line counseling roles.

What postings ask for

• LICSW (premium | immediate): LICSW appeared among the most commonly required certifications in the local sample, so it can help you clear employer filters for advanced counseling and social-work roles. Who: Mid-career social workers and counselors already on a supervised licensure path.
• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): It was the single most requested hard skill in the local sample, appearing in about 45% of postings. Who: Everyone in direct-service, care-coordination, housing, youth, and behavioral-health tracks.
• Crisis intervention (differentiator | immediate): Crisis intervention showed up in about 30% of sampled postings, and local crisis-response work is also being reshaped by the Minneapolis provider transition. Who: Candidates targeting behavioral health, youth stabilization, shelter, and emergency-response-adjacent roles.
• Clinical documentation (table_stakes | immediate): Documentation appeared in about 25% of sampled postings and clinical documentation in about 20%, making it a core screening skill rather than a back-office extra. Who: Entry-level applicants who need to prove job readiness and mid-career applicants moving across settings.
• Care coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration (differentiator | immediate): Both skills appeared in about 15% of sampled postings and fit the metro's heavy concentration in healthcare and hospital-linked employers. Who: Candidates moving into provider-side roles, patient-facing coordination, or cross-agency service models.
• Trauma-informed care (differentiator | near-term): It is being actively highlighted locally by the University of Minnesota as relevant across social services, healthcare, education, public safety, and nonprofit settings. Who: Career switchers and direct-service workers aiming at youth, family, shelter, school, or crisis settings.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

Government data puts the broad Minneapolis community and social service group at a $32.35 mean hourly wage, while the wider SOC 21-0000 family shows a $62,210 median annual wage and a $67,290 mean annual wage for 2025. Separate posting data from the Callings.ai job database shows listed salaries centered on about $68k to $85k, with hourly-paid roles centered on about $26 to $34 / hour. That is solid middle-income pay for the region, and it sits somewhat above the national SOC 21-0000 family median of $58,300/year and mean of $63,410/year. In practice, Minneapolis-St. Paul looks better for stable earnings than for breakout pay unless you bring specialization, licensure, or hard-to-staff service experience.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not spread evenly across the metro. In the Callings.ai sample, healthcare accounted for about 35% of local postings and hospitals and health care for about 30%, with mental health care adding about 10%. BLS also shows Minneapolis education and health services employment at 398.1 thousand in August 2026, up 2.8682% year over year, which is the clearest large-sector growth backdrop for this category. That shifts the practical search strategy. Employers most often asked for case management, crisis intervention, documentation, clinical documentation, care coordination, interdisciplinary collaboration, care planning, and treatment planning. The named employers in the sample reinforce that provider-side tilt, with Fairview Health Services, People Incorporated, Gotham Enterprises Ltd, and Summit Home Health Care, Inc. among the most consistently active organizations. Community-facing work is still present, but it shows up more through funding and capacity signals than a single obvious hiring boom. Recent examples include the VA's $187,500 award to Westcare Minnesota Inc., Hennepin County's four-year youth mental-health grant renewal, and the addition of 55 shelter beds in the Twin Cities.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?

Recent postings show the most activity from Fairview Health Services (15 postings), People Incorporated (5 postings), Gotham Enterprises Ltd (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 25% hybrid, with 70% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

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