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What guidance counsellors make
School counsellor
$85,000
Entry, outside a school board
$48,000
Top of grid
$111,000
Job Bank's national median is $40.84 an hour, about $85,000 a year full time. That page pools high school guidance counsellors with career advisors at colleges and employment agencies, which is why the low end sits well under a teacher's starting salary. In a public high school you are a teacher on the teacher grid, so you start nearer $60,000.