Emergency Medicine Physicians salary

SOC 29-1214 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$335,550

per year, nationally

Middle half

$184,830–$418,890

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

32,880

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+2.7%

1,000 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.

$103,610$495,910

10th: $103,610
25th: $184,830
Median: $335,550
75th: $418,890
90th: $495,910

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 emergency medicine physicians 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	Rhode Island	$512,730	102.3	290	2.74×
2	West Virginia	$491,230	89.5	300	2.04×
3	Missouri	$456,280	90.8	—	—
4	Alaska	$452,620	102.4	190	2.76×
5	Maryland	$451,620	105.0	550	0.95×
6	Vermont	$430,820	98.0	130	1.95×
7	Iowa	$429,050	87.8	290	0.89×
8	Connecticut	$418,940	103.6	470	1.30×
9	Michigan	$417,760	96.2	910	0.98×
10	New Mexico	$405,130	92.2	340	1.85×
11	South Dakota	$393,870	88.6	170	1.71×
12	North Dakota	$392,890	89.0	150	1.62×
13	Minnesota	$390,940	98.6	990	1.59×
14	Washington	$380,870	107.0	—	—
15	Ohio	$377,480	92.8	1,170	0.99×
16	Nebraska	$371,880	90.1	390	1.79×
17	Massachusetts	$356,230	105.8	890	1.15×
18	Oklahoma	$348,540	87.8	60	0.16×
19	Indiana	$347,060	93.3	1,170	1.73×
20	South Carolina	$341,960	93.7	80	0.16×
21	North Carolina	$339,350	94.3	710	0.68×
22	District of Columbia	$318,200	109.9	120	0.80×
23	Texas	$316,830	97.1	780	0.26×
24	New Jersey	$315,340	108.8	500	0.56×
25	New York	$301,690	107.9	3,980	1.94×
26	Mississippi	$252,960	87.0	450	1.83×
27	Idaho	$221,430	95.5	380	2.09×
28	Georgia	$219,010	96.3	—	—
29	Florida	$204,990	103.4	2,060	0.98×
30	Kentucky	$169,390	90.2	620	1.48×
31	Utah	$140,370	98.9	140	0.38×

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 emergency medicine physicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for emergency medicine physicians

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	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	$531,340	88.4	40	1.32×
2	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$476,890	101.8	300	2.00×
3	Anchorage, AK	$472,140	105.4	70	1.74×
4	Rochester, MN	$462,850	90.8	140	5.39×
5	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$454,760	92.7	200	2.55×
6	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$449,910	100.9	—	—
7	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$448,470	100.4	80	2.91×
8	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$447,750	100.3	520	1.28×
9	Rochester, NY	$440,340	97.0	180	1.74×
10	Duluth, MN-WI	$434,190	88.8	50	2.01×
11	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$426,310	91.7	50	0.57×
12	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$418,940	102.7	250	2.00×
13	Albuquerque, NM	$405,130	95.5	180	2.06×
14	Athens-Clarke County, GA	$388,370	93.3	—	—
15	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$380,870	111.1	—	—
16	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$380,800	102.6	310	0.50×
17	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$367,120	104.8	550	1.33×
18	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$356,230	108.3	620	1.09×
19	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$344,170	104.5	240	0.84×
20	Madison, WI	$340,150	97.3	170	1.98×
21	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$338,990	115.6	370	0.73×
22	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$336,290	92.6	140	1.44×
23	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$333,290	95.4	240	1.03×
24	Columbus, OH	$331,600	95.5	—	—
25	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$324,210	103.1	310	0.36×
26	Worcester, MA	$319,420	102.5	170	2.26×
27	Winston-Salem, NC	$319,170	92.0	—	—
28	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$316,830	94.7	110	0.47×
29	Boise City, ID	$316,000	98.4	—	—
30	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$313,350	101.6	90	2.62×
31	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$306,610	100.0	110	1.33×
32	Omaha, NE-IA	$306,350	91.9	200	1.89×
33	Akron, OH	$305,960	93.4	80	1.25×
34	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$303,190	95.8	210	1.87×
35	Jackson, MS	$297,790	89.0	80	1.40×
36	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$289,440	112.6	3,070	1.53×
37	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$284,930	95.7	490	2.08×
38	St. Cloud, MN	$276,550	87.6	—	—
39	St. Louis, MO-IL	$276,550	95.1	120	0.43×
40	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$263,810	100.1	—	—

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 emergency medicine physicians wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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