Neurologists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Neurologists offer sit among all 7,700 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 7,700 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. New York is the largest employer at 1,130 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 24.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Vermont, whose location quotient of 4.06 says this work is 4.06 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 $239,200 or more and the mean of $286,310. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 36 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

The state spread for Neurologists runs from the $234,660 median in Massachusetts down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (1,130 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Neurologists stands number 719 by employment and number 8 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 7 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 920 jobs, 11.9% 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, $219,180 a year, against $219,180 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

The median Neurologists paycheck, gross, is $9,200 every two weeks on an annual $239,200 or more, which is $19,933 a month and $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, $140,970, 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

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