Radiologists Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Radiologists ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $204,330. 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

The occupation employed 26,290 people in May 2024, 0.02% of every job BLS counted. Washington is the largest employer at 2,260 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 24.2% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Washington, whose location quotient of 3.75 says this work is 3.75 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 $359,820. 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

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Washington first at 2,260 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New York would lead at $216,420. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Radiologists stands number 502 by employment and number 12 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 0.3% of the group's 9,592,720 jobs. In 0 of the 2 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 1,870 jobs, 7.1% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 56 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, Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $286,780 a year, against $376,100 in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD. 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 Radiologists 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, $204,330, 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Therapists, All Other, Radiation Therapists, Cardiologists, Nuclear Medicine Technologists, Recreational Therapists, Audiologists. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.