600+ Social Services & Counseling Jobs in Seattle, WA

The best hard pay anchor is BLS: community and social service occupations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue had a mean annual wage of $75,420 in May 2025, with the 25th percentile at $63,420. More recent posting-based signals are higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $90k to $115k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Washington's mean offered salary on new openings for this field at about $82,040 in August 2026 (n=765).

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Advertised pay

Across the 545 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $79,040 at the 25th percentile, $102,500 at the median and $124,800 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

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

This is a workable market, but not an easy one. Washington's social services, counseling & community postings were up 5.1% year over year in August 2026 and employment in the field was up 1.2%, even as statewide postings across all occupations were down 2.7%. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue also has about 30,490 community and social service workers and a location quotient of 1.7, so this is a real local labor pool rather than a niche market. But the metro unemployment rate was 5.1% in July 2026, about 80% of sampled local postings were on-site, and the mix skewed mid-career.

Best positioned: Candidates with Washington-ready licensure such as LICSW, LMHC, or LMFT plus case management and crisis-intervention experience have the best odds, because those credentials and skills are among the most commonly requested in local postings.

Main caution: The biggest mistake is assuming this is a remote-friendly counseling market; only about 5% of sampled local postings were remote, while about 80% were on-site.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 608 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Amedisys, Inc.: 24 open roles
2. LifeStance Health Inc.: 23 open roles
3. Transformations Care Network: 21 open roles
4. Flagship Therapy: 16 open roles
5. Providence Health & Services, Inc.: 16 open roles
6. Beaconhospice: 13 open roles
7. Providence Holding: 13 open roles
8. Providence Swedish: 13 open roles
9. Associated Recreation Council: 12 open roles
10. AOSW: 11 open roles

Where the openings are

• Seattle: 252
• Federal Way: 38
• Bellevue: 37
• Edmonds: 25
• Renton: 22
• Kirkland: 21
• Redmond: 20
• Issaquah: 19

Work arrangement

on-site 497 (85%), hybrid 51 (9%), remote 38 (6%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is concentrated by setting more than by one dominant employer. Within sampled local postings, healthcare made up about 60% of the category, with hospitals, health care services, and mental health care accounting for much of the rest. The named employer list leans the same way, with LifeStance Health Inc., MultiCare Health System, University of Washington, Connections Health Solutions, DESC, and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington among the most consistently active employers in the past 90 days. A second pocket is publicly funded community response work. King County posted one career service and two term-limited Social Services Specialist openings for its Veterans Program on August 21, 2026, then received a $15 million public safety grant that included $1.2 million for Regional Crisis Response and $850,000 for a Therapeutic Response Unit. School-based youth support is also expanding: the King County School-Based Partnerships Program said 21 new staff were hired into a new support role in Seattle Public Schools buildings during the 2025-2026 year. Because hiring is fragmented across employers rather than concentrated in one system, your search should be organized around settings like hospital care coordination, community behavioral health, county response, and youth support rather than around a single brand.

• Hospital and integrated-care case management (high): This is the clearest concentration point, because healthcare accounts for about 60% of sampled postings and the most-requested skills include case management, discharge planning, psychosocial assessment, care coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• County, veterans, and crisis-response programs (high): King County's Veterans Program hiring and new crisis-response funding show that publicly funded community roles remain active, especially for candidates who can handle complex cases and field-based work.
• School-based youth support (moderate): Recent hiring of 21 new support staff into Seattle Public Schools-linked settings points to growing youth-facing and school-connected support work, though it is still a narrower slice than hospital-linked demand.
• Homelessness and community nonprofit services (moderate): DESC and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington appear among the most active named employers, which keeps housing, shelter, and community-support pathways relevant.

Where to focus: Prioritize healthcare-connected and publicly funded community roles where case management, crisis intervention, documentation, and care coordination overlap.

Roles worth searching next

• Behavioral health therapist: The same local ecosystem asks for LICSW, LMHC, and LMFT credentials, and Washington telehealth rules support practice once you hold the right state credential, but this path belongs in the healthcare-practitioners track rather than this category.
• Patient navigator or care coordinator: Healthcare is the biggest local setting, and the core overlap is case management, discharge planning, care coordination, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Utilization review or discharge planning coordinator: Local demand is healthcare-heavy, and discharge planning plus psychosocial assessment are already part of the social-services skill base employers want.
• Assistant behavior analyst: Recent Washington behavioral-health workforce reports listed assistant behavior analysts among new Seattle-area providers, showing overlap with the same behavioral-health ecosystem while moving into a more specialized adjacent track.

What postings ask for

• Washington behavioral-health licensure (LICSW, LMHC, LMFT) (premium | immediate): These are among the most commonly requested credentials in local postings, and Washington generally requires the relevant Washington credential for telehealth practice when the patient is in-state. Who: Counselors, social workers, and advanced candidates already on a supervised licensure path.
• Case management (table_stakes | immediate): Case management is the most frequently requested hard skill in sampled local postings, showing up in about 40% of them. Who: Everyone in this category, especially entry-level candidates who need a clear value proposition.
• Crisis intervention (differentiator | immediate): Crisis intervention appears in about 30% of sampled local postings, and local public funding is explicitly flowing into Regional Crisis Response and a Therapeutic Response Unit. Who: Mid-career case managers, community behavioral-health workers, and applicants targeting county or emergency-adjacent roles.
• Psychosocial assessment and discharge planning (differentiator | immediate): Both skills show up in about 15% of sampled postings and map directly to the healthcare-heavy local demand mix. Who: Applicants targeting hospitals, integrated care, rehab, or medically linked social work roles.
• Clinical documentation (table_stakes | near-term): Clinical documentation appears regularly in local postings, and national practice guidance shows AI-supported documentation is becoming a real productivity lever rather than a fringe tool. Who: Anyone applying to healthcare, behavioral-health, or high-volume casework environments.
• Care coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration (differentiator | immediate): These skills are repeatedly requested in local postings and fit the provider-network and hospital settings that dominate this market. Who: Career switchers from healthcare support, public service, or nonprofit operations, plus mid-career applicants moving into more complex systems work.

Questions about this market

What do Social Services, Counseling & Community roles pay in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA?

The best hard pay anchor is BLS: community and social service occupations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue had a mean annual wage of $75,420 in May 2025, with the 25th percentile at $63,420. More recent posting-based signals are higher: local posted salary ranges center on about $90k to $115k, and Revelio Public Labor Statistics puts Washington's mean offered salary on new openings for this field at about $82,040 in August 2026 (n=765). That spread usually means the highest advertised pay is concentrated in licensed, specialized, or healthcare-linked roles rather than the whole field. Seattle's broad-group pay anchor also sits above the national community and social service annual mean of $63,410.

Where is demand for Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA concentrated?

Opportunity is concentrated by setting more than by one dominant employer. Within sampled local postings, healthcare made up about 60% of the category, with hospitals, health care services, and mental health care accounting for much of the rest. The named employer list leans the same way, with LifeStance Health Inc., MultiCare Health System, University of Washington, Connections Health Solutions, DESC, and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington among the most consistently active employers in the past 90 days. A second pocket is publicly funded community response work. King County posted one career service and two term-limited Social Services Specialist openings for its Veterans Program on August 21, 2026, then received a $15 million public safety grant that included $1.2 million for Regional Crisis Response and $850,000 for a Therapeutic Response Unit. School-based youth support is also expanding: the King County School-Based Partnerships Program said 21 new staff were hired into a new support role in Seattle Public Schools buildings during the 2025-2026 year. Because hiring is fragmented across employers rather than concentrated in one system, your search should be organized around settings like hospital care coordination, community behavioral health, county response, and youth support rather than around a single brand.

Which employers are hiring the most Social Services, Counseling & Community talent in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA?

Recent postings show the most activity from LifeStance Health Inc. (10 postings), Preferra Insurance (10 postings), MultiCare Health System (10 postings), DESC (10 postings), Catholic Community Services of Western Washington (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Social Services, Counseling & Community roles in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 15% hybrid, with 80% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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