Family Medicine Physicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Family Medicine Physicians ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $167,580. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

With 107,950 jobs nationally, Family Medicine Physicians make up 0.07% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: California alone holds 18,640 of those jobs, the top three states hold 30.3%, and the deepest concentration sits in Alaska (location quotient 2.90, 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 $238,380 and the mean of $256,830. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 51 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is New Hampshire at $238,370; the jobs leader is California:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Family Medicine Physicians stands number 257 by employment and number 18 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 142% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.1% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 25 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $238,380, 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 6,590 jobs, 6.1% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $82,090 a year, against $360,320 in Boise City, ID. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Family Medicine Physicians paycheck, gross, is $9,168 every two weeks on an annual $238,380, which is $19,865 a month and $4,584 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, $167,580, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Sibling occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations: Surgical Technologists, Dentists, General, Paramedics, Diagnostic Medical Sonographers, Veterinarians, Opticians, Dispensing. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.