Surgeons, All Other salary

SOC 29-1249 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$414,010

per year, nationally

Middle half

$134,850–$511,420

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

25,140

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

+3.9%

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.

$80,320$655,320

10th: $80,320
25th: $134,850
Median: $414,010
75th: $511,420
90th: $655,320

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 surgeons, 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	$604,890	89.0	150	2.19×
2	Minnesota	$568,150	98.6	910	1.90×
3	Ohio	$554,220	92.8	980	1.10×
4	Oklahoma	$553,790	87.8	80	0.30×
5	New Hampshire	$534,870	104.2	220	1.98×
6	Georgia	$502,070	96.3	300	0.38×
7	Washington	$479,460	107.0	370	0.65×
8	West Virginia	$468,210	89.5	240	2.11×
9	Indiana	$459,300	93.3	420	0.82×
10	Vermont	$438,530	98.0	160	3.31×
11	Illinois	$438,010	100.0	620	0.63×
12	New Jersey	$437,890	108.8	680	0.98×
13	Florida	$429,990	103.4	2,260	1.41×
14	Wisconsin	$416,000	94.1	550	1.16×
15	Arizona	$415,980	100.7	—	—
16	Michigan	$412,460	96.2	440	0.62×
17	New York	$410,410	107.9	4,540	2.90×
18	North Carolina	$398,410	94.3	480	0.60×
19	Wyoming	$387,880	92.7	60	1.43×
20	Massachusetts	$387,150	105.8	770	1.31×
21	Tennessee	$373,510	91.9	490	0.92×
22	Iowa	$370,390	87.8	110	0.43×
23	New Mexico	$363,940	92.2	150	1.06×
24	Virginia	$360,510	101.1	260	0.40×
25	Nebraska	$341,410	90.1	180	1.09×
26	Maryland	$328,700	105.0	520	1.16×
27	Nevada	$326,520	100.0	—	—
28	Louisiana	$304,830	88.2	140	0.45×
29	Arkansas	$254,940	86.9	280	1.32×
30	Texas	$222,820	97.1	1,710	0.75×
31	Idaho	$211,490	95.5	60	0.45×
32	Rhode Island	$199,990	102.3	—	—
33	Mississippi	$180,420	87.0	120	0.61×
34	Kentucky	$162,160	90.2	440	1.37×
35	Connecticut	$161,680	103.6	440	1.60×
36	California	$131,990	110.7	—	—

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

Best paying metro areas for surgeons, 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	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$762,360	96.9	140	1.05×
2	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$630,540	93.3	70	1.07×
3	Charleston, WV	$619,320	88.7	60	3.57×
4	Toledo, OH	$618,680	91.5	50	1.08×
5	Columbus, OH	$609,450	95.5	180	0.98×
6	Fargo, ND-MN	$604,890	90.9	80	3.20×
7	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$568,150	104.8	330	1.05×
8	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$561,070	100.3	160	0.52×
9	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$535,800	110.5	—	—
10	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$529,100	100.1	90	0.19×
11	Flagstaff, AZ	$520,400	100.3	—	—
12	Worcester, MA	$517,150	102.5	150	2.71×
13	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$504,360	111.1	250	0.73×
14	St. Cloud, MN	$503,740	87.6	40	2.27×
15	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$500,390	100.9	70	0.31×
16	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$494,800	103.1	470	0.72×
17	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	$493,720	88.4	30	1.33×
18	Pittsfield, MA	$476,230	95.1	30	3.30×
19	Boulder, CO	$465,940	105.2	50	1.55×
20	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$462,620	103.6	340	0.46×
21	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$459,300	95.7	360	2.00×
22	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$453,590	100.9	120	6.24×
23	Binghamton, NY	$443,420	92.9	30	1.95×
24	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	$441,180	99.4	—	—
25	Springfield, IL	$438,010	92.7	80	4.94×
26	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$437,390	95.4	150	0.84×
27	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	$425,970	102.3	—	—
28	Port St. Lucie, FL	$419,070	100.2	—	—
29	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$411,410	95.8	150	1.70×
30	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$410,100	103.3	—	—
31	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$399,990	112.6	4,290	2.79×
32	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$391,540	104.5	220	1.02×
33	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$386,300	108.3	520	1.19×
34	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$346,340	101.8	60	0.54×
35	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$326,510	100.2	—	—
36	Tallahassee, FL	$322,350	93.9	40	1.39×
37	Rochester, NY	$321,070	97.0	120	1.45×
38	Salisbury, MD	$310,560	95.6	60	6.87×
39	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$271,390	98.1	—	—
40	Richmond, VA	$259,310	97.9	—	—

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

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Other jobs in the same field, with what each pays nationally.