Pediatric Surgeons Salary and Pay
How much do Pediatric Surgeons make?
Pediatric Surgeons pay a median of $239,200 or more a year in the BLS May 2024 survey, with a mean of $450,810 across 1,050 counted jobs. Half of all workers in the occupation earn between $239,200 or more and $239,200 or more.
What Pediatric Surgeons actually pay, from the federal wage survey: a $239,200 or more median, the full percentile ladder, every state's table, and the metros where the jobs and the money sit, on one page.
Updated November 5, 2026
Salary converter for this occupation
Every level in the picker is a published BLS figure for Pediatric Surgeons, not a national average. Annual-to-hourly conversions divide by 2,080 hours, the survey's full-time year; top-coded levels use $239,200, the floor BLS prints, so the true figure is higher.
The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)
| Pay level | Annual wage | Hourly wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $189,720 | $91.21 |
| 25th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| Median (50th) | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| 75th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
| 90th percentile | $239,200+ | $115.00+ |
A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Pediatric Surgeons ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $239,200 or more. 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
With 1,050 jobs nationally, Pediatric Surgeons make up 0.00% of U.S. employment as BLS measured it in May 2024. The map is uneven: New York alone holds 140 of those jobs, the top three states hold 19.0%, and the deepest concentration sits in Nebraska (location quotient 4.90, where 1.00 is the national average). A quotient above 2 usually signals a local industry cluster rather than evenly spread demand.
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 $450,810. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 6 states with published estimates.
Pay by state
Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 6 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Illinois at $89,450; the jobs leader is New York:
| State | Employment | Jobs per 1,000 | Location quotient | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 140 | 0.0 | 2.14 | $401,830 | $239,200+ |
| Illinois | 30 | 0.0 | 0.77 | $258,900 | $89,450 |
| Nebraska | 30 | 0.0 | 4.90 | $382,100 | $239,200+ |
| Connecticut | n/p | n/p | n/p | $378,180 | $239,200+ |
| Michigan | n/p | n/p | n/p | $353,700 | $239,200+ |
| Texas | n/p | n/p | n/p | $239,200+ | $239,200+ |
The occupation in context
Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Pediatric Surgeons stands number 819 by employment and number 16 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 0.0% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 1 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 140 jobs, 13.3% 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
| Metropolitan area | Employment | Mean annual | Median annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 140 | $371,890 | $239,200+ |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | 30 | $286,150 | $89,450 |
| Omaha, NE-IA | 30 | n/p | n/p |
What the median pay looks like as a budget
The median Pediatric Surgeons 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, $239,200 or more, 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
Sibling occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations: Nurse Anesthetists, Pediatricians, General, Optometrists, Anesthesiologists, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists, Chiropractors. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.
Frequently asked questions
What is the average salary for Pediatric Surgeons?
BLS publishes both centers: the mean annual wage is $450,810 and the median is $239,200 or more (May 2024). The median is usually the better answer to what a typical worker makes, because the mean is pulled by the highest earners.
Where do Pediatric Surgeons earn the most?
At state level, Illinois posts the highest median at $89,450. At metro level, BLS publishes no metro estimates for this occupation.
How many Pediatric Surgeons jobs are there?
1,050 nationally in May 2024. The biggest metro employer is New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ with 140 jobs.
Is $239,200 or more a good salary for Pediatric Surgeons?
It is the exact middle of the occupation: half of the 1,050 counted workers earn more, half earn less. Against the occupation's own ladder, an offer above $239,200 or more is a top-quartile offer and one below $239,200 or more is a bottom-quartile one.