Podiatrists salary

SOC 29-1081 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$160,300

per year, nationally

Middle half

$103,730–$225,910

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

9,680

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+1.8%

300 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$66,010$309,670

10th: $66,010
25th: $103,730
Median: $160,300
75th: $225,910
90th: $309,670

Getting in

Typical education to enter: Doctoral or professional degree
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Internship/residency

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where podiatrists earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	District of Columbia	$265,740	109.9	—	—
2	Minnesota	$261,180	98.6	130	0.73×
3	Oklahoma	$253,380	87.8	60	0.53×
4	New Hampshire	$250,070	104.2	70	1.58×
5	Washington	$232,970	107.0	140	0.62×
6	Massachusetts	$217,700	105.8	170	0.76×
7	North Carolina	$215,420	94.3	240	0.78×
8	Connecticut	$212,760	103.6	170	1.63×
9	Tennessee	$212,470	91.9	70	0.36×
10	Oregon	$207,430	103.4	170	1.39×
11	West Virginia	$207,000	89.5	50	1.05×
12	Nevada	$204,990	100.0	70	0.68×
13	New Mexico	$202,690	92.2	60	1.05×
14	Maryland	$201,940	105.0	330	1.92×
15	California	$201,300	110.7	1,000	0.88×
16	Kentucky	$201,260	90.2	80	0.61×
17	Maine	$200,850	97.0	40	0.97×
18	Louisiana	$197,480	88.2	50	0.46×
19	Wisconsin	$185,100	94.1	120	0.66×
20	Texas	$175,520	97.1	500	0.57×
21	Delaware	$170,560	99.8	60	2.01×
22	Illinois	$167,400	100.0	—	—
23	South Carolina	$167,110	93.7	70	0.50×
24	Mississippi	$164,410	87.0	30	0.45×
25	Michigan	$162,140	96.2	350	1.29×
26	Alabama	$161,820	88.8	90	0.71×
27	New Jersey	$160,300	108.8	260	0.96×
28	Rhode Island	$159,760	102.3	50	1.65×
29	Pennsylvania	$155,050	97.6	390	1.04×
30	Colorado	$142,620	103.1	150	0.81×
31	Florida	$138,340	103.4	870	1.41×
32	Iowa	$134,830	87.8	100	1.00×
33	Virginia	$133,640	101.1	260	1.02×
34	Arizona	$133,190	100.7	270	1.32×
35	Indiana	$132,930	93.3	260	1.29×
36	Georgia	$132,630	96.3	190	0.62×
37	Missouri	$129,950	90.8	160	0.87×
38	Ohio	$129,380	92.8	350	1.01×
39	Idaho	$124,610	95.5	30	0.64×
40	New York	$108,460	107.9	1,520	2.52×
41	Utah	$93,270	98.9	120	1.15×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where podiatrists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for podiatrists

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$287,400	104.8	90	0.70×
2	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$254,570	97.3	—	—
3	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$239,990	108.3	150	0.88×
4	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$235,390	111.9	60	0.66×
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$232,970	111.1	90	0.69×
6	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$229,020	106.9	30	1.37×
7	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$228,380	105.4	110	1.46×
8	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$227,140	104.5	110	1.35×
9	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$222,530	105.7	—	—
10	New Haven, CT	$220,060	104.6	40	2.12×
11	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	$207,560	100.0	30	2.19×
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$206,200	106.7	50	0.68×
13	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$205,010	100.2	50	0.73×
14	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$204,980	95.4	50	0.71×
15	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$204,350	115.6	140	0.96×
16	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$202,930	94.7	40	0.63×
17	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$201,360	110.4	50	0.70×
18	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$199,990	113.6	350	0.89×
19	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$196,500	106.4	100	0.92×
20	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$194,670	102.3	40	2.30×
21	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$187,790	102.7	40	1.09×
22	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$185,800	98.2	60	1.36×
23	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$184,090	100.4	—	—
24	Syracuse, NY	$182,830	95.7	40	1.90×
25	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$177,830	109.4	30	2.04×
26	Birmingham, AL	$169,780	91.6	50	1.39×
27	Jacksonville, FL	$169,520	99.5	50	1.11×
28	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$168,940	100.3	220	1.90×
29	Richmond, VA	$168,600	97.9	40	1.09×
30	Pittsburgh, PA	$168,110	94.7	60	0.91×
31	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$167,140	103.6	—	—
32	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$165,280	100.9	150	1.63×
33	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$163,120	100.9	40	0.68×
34	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$159,790	101.8	50	1.18×
35	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$158,070	102.6	240	1.32×
36	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$158,060	103.1	160	0.65×
37	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$157,500	108.9	300	1.53×
38	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$155,960	101.4	110	1.23×
39	Kansas City, MO-KS	$153,510	92.5	40	0.61×
40	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$150,700	95.7	120	1.76×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where podiatrists wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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