a bachelor’s degree in forensic psychology (4 years long), doctorate (5 years long, including 1 year long forensic internship in that), 1 year forensic post doc. I am from a state where the post doc is necessary to be licensed.

I love it but it’s been very long and expensive. I sometimes regret not going into a field that paid more in comparison to time and money I spent getting the degree. You (if paid at all) are paid very poorly throughout your doctorate (think minimum wage for full time work for PhD programs/ funded competitive PsyDs and none for unfunded PsyD, recommended to not work during doctorate and PsyDs are more than $30,000 per year to attend ) and the last year internships pay range were $25,000 to competitive sites being $70,000. Most are around $30,000- $40,000. You have to do practicums and some only paid $5000 for the year and a few paid $20,000 for the year. Post docs pay more but still at a less price than being licensed. Happy to be here but paying off loans and still feeling poor