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Physicians, All Other

US occupation · SOC 29-1229

Pay and outlook

Median annual wage, May 2025
$265,930
Half earn more, half earn less
Middle half earn
$102,930 – $378,770
25th to 75th percentile
People employed, May 2025
342,720
Wage and salary jobs (OEWS)
Projected change, 2025–35
+3.4%
Growing slower than all jobs (0% to under 3.5%)
Openings a year (projected)
9,400
New jobs plus replacing people who leave
Typical education to enter
Doctoral or professional degree
BLS
  • All figures are for the United States as a whole. Pay varies a lot by state and city.
  • Wages are for everyone working in the occupation in May 2025, at every career stage. They are not starting salaries or figures for new graduates.
  • Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025–35. They are estimates, not promises. Openings include jobs that open up when people retire or change occupation, not just new jobs.

What the work involves

All physicians not listed separately.

More specific O*NET® occupations under this one: Allergists and Immunologists, Hospitalists, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians, Preventive Medicine Physicians, Sports Medicine Physicians, Urologists.

Description and tasks from the O*NET® 31.0 Database.

Getting in

Typical education to enter (BLS)
Doctoral or professional degree
Training once hired: internship/residency

Fields of study that lead here

From the federal CIP–SOC crosswalk, which links 63 programmes to this occupation. A link means the programme prepares people for this kind of work. It doesn't mean the programme is required, or that it's the only route.

Health & Nursing

  • Medicine
  • Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy
  • Pain Management

Find colleges that fit you with our matcher: choose Health & Nursing at the Major step.

Where many students take health & nursing

Ordered by the field's share of degrees awarded times undergraduate enrolment (College Scorecard), among colleges with at least 1,000 undergraduates. Online universities are included. It's a rough measure of how big the programme is. It says nothing about quality. The share counts every programme in the field, not only the ones linked to this career.

Other fields

Our college matcher doesn't offer this field as a major, so we can't suggest colleges for it here.

Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs

  • Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Program, General
  • Family Medicine/Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Combined Specialty Program
  • Family Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Specialty Program
  • Internal Medicine/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program
  • Internal Medicine/Preventive Medicine Combined Specialty Program
  • Medical Genetics and Genomics/Maternal-Fetal Medicine Combined Specialty Program
  • Pediatrics/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program
  • Pediatrics/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Combined Specialty Program
52 more programmes
  • Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility/Medical Genetics and Genomics Combined Specialty Program
  • Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program
  • Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Pain Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Sports Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Telemedicine Fellowship Program
  • Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Women's Health Fellowship Program
  • Multiple-Pathway Medical Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program
  • Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Fellowship Program
  • Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
  • Hematology Fellowship Program
  • Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program
  • Infectious Disease Fellowship Program
  • Nephrology Fellowship Program
  • Medical Oncology Fellowship Program
  • Pulmonary Disease Fellowship Program
  • Rheumatology Fellowship Program
  • Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program
  • Internal Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Clinical Biochemical Genetics Residency Program
  • Clinical Genetics and Genomics Residency Program
  • Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Residency Program
  • Medical Biochemical Genetics Residency Program
  • Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility Fellowship Program
  • Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship Program
  • Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Residency Program
  • Osteopathic Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Otolaryngology Residency Program
  • Neurotology Fellowship Program
  • Otolaryngology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Program
  • Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
  • Aerospace Medicine Residency Program
  • Occupational Medicine Residency Program
  • Preventive Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Radiation Oncology Residency Program
  • Radiation Oncology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
  • Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other

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Sources

This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. CollegeMatcher has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET 31.0 Database · CC BY 4.0

Changes: we show the core tasks in the O*NET database with the highest importance ratings (up to eight, in that order), the top three O*NET interest types by score, and shortened Job Zone names. Titles, descriptions and task text are unchanged.

Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Projections, typical entry education and training: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025–35. Fields of study: NCES and BLS CIP 2020–SOC 2018 Crosswalk. All public domain. OEWS · Employment Projections · CIP–SOC crosswalk