Family Medicine Physicians in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$164,415
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$71,215
30.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$188,350
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$235,630
Kept after tax
$164,415
Worth in national money
$188,350
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Mississippi pays family medicine physicians around $235,630 at the midpoint, 34 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Within Mississippi this is well-paid work. Of 486 occupations with published figures in the state, family medicine physicians ranks 1 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $235,630 you keep $164,415 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $188,350 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $265,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- For family medicine physicians the Mississippi median is $235,630, ranking 34 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Ranked against every occupation Mississippi publishes a median for, family medicine physicians sits 1 of 486 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $164,415 after the full tax stack, from $235,630. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $188,350 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $265,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Family Medicine Physicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $120,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $235,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $422,860 |
| This salary | $235,630 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Mississippi | $164,415 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $173,748 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$9,551 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $221,413 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$14,138 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of family medicine physicians in Mississippi earn under $235,630 and half over. The published range runs $120,170 at the tenth percentile to $422,860 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $164,415 take-home in Mississippi comes from $235,630. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 1 of 486.
- Two cautions on $188,350, the adjusted value of that $235,630 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 1 of 486 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for family medicine physicians in Mississippi, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $120,170 to $422,860; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $164,415, from $235,630, assumes a single Mississippi filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 1 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- This $188,350 adjusted figure, worked from $235,630, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 1 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 1 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $265,510, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $120,170 and the top tenth $422,860 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Mississippi is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $188,350 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Mississippi adds its own income tax on top — which is why $164,415 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Mississippi is $265,510. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($120,170) and the ninetieth ($422,860) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Mississippi's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $188,350 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $164,415 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.