Emergency Medicine Physicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Emergency Medicine Physicians 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 33,680 jobs nationally, Emergency Medicine Physicians make up 0.02% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 3,370 of those jobs, the top three states hold 25.1%, and the deepest concentration sits in Georgia (location quotient 3.10, 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 $320,700. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 46 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Kentucky posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $239,100, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Emergency Medicine Physicians stands number 462 by employment and number 7 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 0.4% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 6 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 2,810 jobs, 8.3% of the national total. Below, the biggest employers come first; the pay table after it only counts metros with 500 or more jobs in the occupation, so its leader is a real market and not a statistical artifact.

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, $230,620 a year, against $344,360 in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Anyone relocating for this work should price the destination metro's table row, not the national median, before signing anything.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $19,933 a month before tax, $9,200 biweekly, $4,600 weekly. 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, $181,070, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

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