Physicians, All Other salary

SOC 29-1229 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$265,930

per year, nationally

Middle half

$102,930–$378,770

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

342,720

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+2.5%

9,600 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.

$69,170$452,360

10th: $69,170
25th: $102,930
Median: $265,930
75th: $378,770
90th: $452,360

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 physicians, all other 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	North Dakota	$454,550	89.0	740	0.78×
2	Montana	$438,850	94.6	580	0.52×
3	Maine	$419,410	97.0	1,340	0.95×
4	Wisconsin	$391,740	94.1	6,350	0.98×
5	Minnesota	$367,320	98.6	5,350	0.82×
6	Indiana	$366,190	93.3	6,760	0.96×
7	New Hampshire	$361,300	104.2	1,000	0.66×
8	Alaska	$355,100	102.4	270	0.37×
9	Louisiana	$350,920	88.2	4,740	1.11×
10	Oregon	$347,180	103.4	4,130	0.95×
11	Vermont	$343,050	98.0	440	0.66×
12	Wyoming	$342,800	92.7	440	0.71×
13	Hawaii	$339,290	110.0	1,830	1.32×
14	New Mexico	$327,670	92.2	1,930	1.01×
15	Kentucky	$327,390	90.2	3,340	0.76×
16	Arizona	$312,490	100.7	6,800	0.95×
17	Washington	$307,170	107.0	6,300	0.81×
18	Tennessee	$301,290	91.9	5,340	0.74×
19	Idaho	$299,340	95.5	1,700	0.90×
20	Colorado	$298,320	103.1	1,990	0.31×
21	Delaware	$297,470	99.8	1,370	1.28×
22	Ohio	$297,440	92.8	21,160	1.73×
23	Iowa	$295,190	87.8	1,440	0.42×
24	Nebraska	$290,470	90.1	1,170	0.52×
25	New Jersey	$285,010	108.8	9,730	1.03×
26	California	$281,590	110.7	25,530	0.64×
27	Virginia	$278,530	101.1	8,480	0.94×
28	South Carolina	$274,480	93.7	4,510	0.89×
29	Alabama	$272,610	88.8	3,980	0.85×
30	Texas	$269,800	97.1	30,720	0.99×
31	Georgia	$266,880	96.3	8,580	0.80×
32	Florida	$262,180	103.4	23,390	1.07×
33	North Carolina	$260,330	94.3	14,080	1.29×
34	Oklahoma	$259,220	87.8	2,520	0.67×
35	West Virginia	$258,020	89.5	1,980	1.28×
36	Nevada	$252,120	100.0	2,400	0.70×
37	New York	$242,500	107.9	16,600	0.78×
38	Massachusetts	$236,580	105.8	8,210	1.02×
39	Rhode Island	$228,590	102.3	1,180	1.06×
40	Mississippi	$228,130	87.0	—	—
41	Utah	$228,060	98.9	3,510	0.92×
42	Missouri	$227,980	90.8	3,990	0.62×
43	Kansas	$221,540	90.1	5,230	1.65×
44	Pennsylvania	$217,310	97.6	23,800	1.78×
45	Connecticut	$214,990	103.6	4,700	1.26×
46	Maryland	$212,080	105.0	10,340	1.70×
47	Michigan	$155,480	96.2	13,150	1.36×
48	Arkansas	$136,880	86.9	4,290	1.49×
49	Illinois	$132,540	100.0	20,790	1.55×
50	District of Columbia	$77,430	109.9	1,960	1.26×

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 physicians, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for physicians, all other

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	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$517,900	100.9	150	0.58×
2	Texarkana, TX-AR	$516,930	84.0	90	0.71×
3	Mansfield, OH	$478,020	88.9	170	1.56×
4	Grants Pass, OR	$460,430	97.8	40	0.64×
5	Bismarck, ND	$454,550	91.0	120	0.77×
6	Boulder, CO	$453,460	105.2	110	0.25×
7	Topeka, KS	$451,910	88.8	500	1.96×
8	Portland-South Portland, ME	$442,790	101.9	690	1.08×
9	Muncie, IN	$436,300	88.1	90	0.88×
10	Green Bay, WI	$435,420	93.1	430	1.13×
11	Lawrence, KS	$432,860	90.2	80	0.66×
12	Chattanooga, TN-GA	$429,900	91.5	330	0.56×
13	Decatur, IL	$429,340	88.4	—	—
14	Champaign-Urbana, IL	$423,260	92.7	480	2.07×
15	Mankato, MN	$421,630	91.0	80	0.63×
16	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$421,490	107.8	270	0.61×
17	Fargo, ND-MN	$418,980	90.9	330	1.01×
18	Eau Claire, WI	$418,650	92.8	200	1.07×
19	Midland, TX	$417,970	95.8	160	0.61×
20	Baton Rouge, LA	$413,620	90.8	1,060	1.17×
21	Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC	$412,490	98.0	110	0.59×
22	Coeur d'Alene, ID	$411,670	98.3	—	—
23	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$411,200	96.9	2,390	1.32×
24	Bowling Green, KY	$407,570	90.2	110	0.61×
25	Appleton, WI	$406,080	92.4	160	0.59×
26	Sheboygan, WI	$403,750	94.0	70	0.51×
27	Salisbury, MD	$402,980	95.6	160	1.36×
28	Owensboro, KY	$401,180	88.6	140	1.24×
29	Kankakee, IL	$400,280	96.4	200	2.18×
30	Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA	$394,170	92.7	340	1.57×
31	St. Cloud, MN	$391,660	87.6	180	0.80×
32	Bangor, ME	$389,240	96.5	110	0.67×
33	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$388,960	92.2	950	0.71×
34	Fort Wayne, IN	$388,320	92.6	710	1.42×
35	Las Cruces, NM	$387,450	90.2	170	0.97×
36	Salinas, CA	$384,990	109.0	250	0.61×
37	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	$383,720	90.3	100	0.35×
38	Paducah, KY-IL	$378,880	86.1	80	0.75×
39	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$378,730	104.8	3,690	0.86×
40	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$377,580	100.4	130	0.48×

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 physicians, all other wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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