Obstetricians and Gynecologists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Obstetricians and Gynecologists 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

May 2024 employment stood at 19,900, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 2,990 jobs; the top three states sum to 29.1% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Delaware posts a location quotient of 2.91, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

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 $281,130. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 45 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts New York first at 2,990 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, District of Columbia would lead at $236,610. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Obstetricians and Gynecologists stands number 563 by employment and number 9 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 0.2% 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 2,830 jobs, 14.2% 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, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $253,730 a year, against $267,380 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

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, $188,130, 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.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Hearing Aid Specialists, Dermatologists, Orthotists and Prosthetists, Podiatrists, Acupuncturists, Nurse Midwives. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.