Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric offer sit among all 14,160 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

May 2024 employment stood at 14,160, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. California leads the state table with 2,560 jobs; the top three states sum to 35.0% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: South Dakota posts a location quotient of 3.56, 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 $365,060. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 42 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts California first at 2,560 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Ohio would lead at $220,390. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric stands number 626 by employment and number 15 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 4 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 1,520 jobs, 10.7% 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, $283,960 a year, against $283,960 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

As a household number, $239,200 or more a year is $19,933 a month gross, $9,200 every two weeks, $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, $209,730, is the firmest anchor for an early-career offer. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $19,933 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.

Related occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Cardiologists, Nuclear Medicine Technologists, Recreational Therapists, Audiologists, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric, Physicians, Pathologists. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.