Podiatrists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Podiatrists offer sit among all 9,520 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

BLS counted 9,520 Podiatrists jobs in May 2024, which is 0.01% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Delaware, where the location quotient is 2.22, meaning the occupation holds 2.22 times its national share of local jobs. New York employs the most people outright, 1,210 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 31.1% of the national total.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $152,800 and the mean of $163,960. 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

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 42 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is South Dakota at $234,480; the jobs leader is New York:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Podiatrists stands number 693 by employment and number 34 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 55% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 22 of the 39 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $152,800, 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 1,120 jobs, 11.8% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 49 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, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $132,580 a year, against $132,580 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

The median annual wage of $152,800 works out to $12,733 a month before taxes, $5,877 per biweekly paycheck, and $2,938 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($91,130) to the 75th ($217,960) is worth $126,830 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $168,080 would sit between the median ($152,800) and the 75th percentile ($217,960), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $91,130, is $61,670 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

Sibling occupations in Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations: Exercise Physiologists, Neurologists, Dentists, All Other Specialists, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Orthodontists, Medical Dosimetrists. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.