Dermatologists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Dermatologists worker at that point in the distribution, so $239,200 or more at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

With 10,080 jobs nationally, Dermatologists make up 0.01% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 1,400 of those jobs, the top three states hold 23.7%, and the deepest concentration sits in New York (location quotient 2.25, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $239,200 or more and the mean of $347,810. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 35 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 1,400 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, West Virginia would lead at $215,740. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Dermatologists stands number 685 by employment and number 6 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, the group median wage is $98,340 across 71 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 143% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 3 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $239,200 or more, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 1,250 jobs, 12.4% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $311,490 a year, against $311,490 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $239,200 or more a year is $19,933 a month gross, $9,200 every two weeks, $4,600 a week. The top of this ladder is top-coded by BLS (shown as $239,200+), so the full experience premium cannot be printed from the published table; the 25th percentile, $172,510, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $19,933 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Pharmacy Technicians, Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians, Pharmacists, Physicians, All Other. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.