Physicians, All Other
What the pay figures show
- North Dakota comes first for physicians, all other on every measure. $454,550 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $342,470 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For physicians, all other, North Dakota's $454,550 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $342,470. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$265,930
People doing it
342,720
Highest paid
$454,550
ND
Best off, really
$342,470
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$69,170
Highest tenth
$452,360
Lowest, really
$53,869
DC
States with data
50
National average
$262,040
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $53,869 to $342,470.
- About 342,720 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $265,930. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 50 jurisdictions, averaging $265,930 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. North Dakota leads the published set.
- Geographic dispersion in physicians, all other is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $53,869 to $342,470 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- With 342,720 workers, physicians, all other sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- Coverage for physicians, all other runs to 50 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Physicians, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $69,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $265,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $452,360 |
| This salary | $265,930 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Physicians, All Other
The national median for this job
$265,930around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $69,170 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $265,930 |
| Top tenth | $452,360 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Physicians, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | District of Columbia · $77,430 |
|---|---|
| Highest | North Dakota · $454,550 |
| Spread | $377,120 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $269,800 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $277,643 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $454,550 | $303,333 | $342,470 |
| MT | $438,850 | $278,732 | $308,865 |
| WI | $391,740 | $250,868 | $269,469 |
| ME | $419,410 | $261,642 | $269,464 |
| LA | $350,920 | $236,937 | $268,195 |
| IN | $366,190 | $245,872 | $266,718 |
| WY | $342,800 | $241,991 | $266,369 |
| AK | $355,100 | $249,697 | $245,487 |
| KY | $327,390 | $220,996 | $244,280 |
| NH | $361,300 | $253,581 | $240,715 |
| NM | $327,670 | $216,771 | $239,828 |
| TN | $301,290 | $215,985 | $233,459 |
| MN | $367,320 | $227,807 | $231,471 |
| IA | $295,190 | $201,558 | $227,064 |
| VT | $343,050 | $218,474 | $226,082 |
| OH | $297,440 | $206,110 | $224,491 |
| ID | $299,340 | $199,752 | $218,487 |
| NE | $290,470 | $196,693 | $217,639 |
| AZ | $312,490 | $215,592 | $213,236 |
| AL | $272,610 | $187,479 | $208,379 |
| OR | $347,180 | $212,383 | $202,809 |
| WA | $307,170 | $219,669 | $202,344 |
| TX | $269,800 | $196,181 | $201,884 |
| OK | $259,220 | $178,071 | $201,697 |
| SC | $274,480 | $185,854 | $199,463 |
| CO | $298,320 | $201,707 | $198,957 |
| WV | $258,020 | $177,519 | $197,744 |
| DE | $297,470 | $195,190 | $196,659 |
| HI | $339,290 | $212,738 | $195,875 |
| NC | $260,330 | $180,085 | $191,297 |
| NV | $252,120 | $184,574 | $190,321 |
| GA | $266,880 | $181,545 | $187,743 |
| VA | $278,530 | $186,471 | $185,085 |
| FL | $262,180 | $191,178 | $184,799 |
| MS | $228,130 | $159,791 | $183,054 |
| NJ | $285,010 | $189,820 | $174,334 |
| MO | $227,980 | $158,948 | $173,218 |
| KS | $221,540 | $152,425 | $169,427 |
| UT | $228,060 | $158,630 | $166,975 |
| CA | $281,590 | $181,547 | $161,259 |
| PA | $217,310 | $155,004 | $158,979 |
| RI | $228,590 | $159,237 | $157,020 |
| NY | $242,500 | $163,132 | $151,573 |
| MA | $236,580 | $162,863 | $150,467 |
| CT | $214,990 | $148,243 | $142,969 |
| MD | $212,080 | $147,334 | $141,715 |
| MI | $155,480 | $111,179 | $118,045 |
| AR | $136,880 | $100,218 | $115,848 |
| IL | $132,540 | $95,441 | $96,547 |
| DC | $77,430 | $59,689 | $53,869 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for physicians, all other as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $265,930, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for physicians, all other. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, North Dakota keeps the most at $303,333.
- The price adjustment for physicians, all other uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — the District of Columbia anchors the bottom at $53,869. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- These are distribution medians for physicians, all other, with a national value of $265,930. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- The household modeled for physicians, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis North Dakota retains the most, $303,333. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms figures for physicians, all other deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.