General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given General Internal Medicine Physicians offer sit among all 66,640 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 66,640 people in May 2024, 0.04% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 11,110 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 34.8% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Maryland, whose location quotient of 3.48 says this work is 3.48 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $236,350 and the mean of $262,710. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 49 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

The state spread for General Internal Medicine Physicians runs from the $234,960 median in West Virginia down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (11,110 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, General Internal Medicine Physicians stands number 335 by employment and number 19 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 140% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.7% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 16 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $236,350, 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 10,410 jobs, 15.6% 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, $195,970 a year, against $312,680 in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. 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

The median General Internal Medicine Physicians paycheck, gross, is $9,090 every two weeks on an annual $236,350, which is $19,696 a month and $4,545 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, $135,240, 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.

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