Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other 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 Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $83,350. 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

May 2024 employment stood at 30,870, or 0.02% of the U.S. total. Maryland leads the state table with 6,190 jobs; the top three states sum to 35.1% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Maryland posts a location quotient of 11.25, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $194,000, which is 3.0 times the $65,210 at the 10th, a difference of $128,790 annually. Because the mean wage ($128,680) sits above the median ($113,730), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Maryland first at 6,190 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Maryland would lead at $160,560. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other stands number 477 by employment and number 79 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 16% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 8 of the 47 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $113,730, 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

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV is the largest metro employer with 6,330 jobs, 20.5% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 85 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $91,630 a year, against $159,590 in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

As a household number, $113,730 a year is $9,478 a month gross, $4,374 every two weeks, $2,187 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($83,350) to the 75th ($161,350) is worth $78,000 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $9,478 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.

To place a real offer: a salary of $125,103 would sit between the median ($113,730) and the 75th percentile ($161,350), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $83,350, is $30,380 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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