Healthcare Practitioners
Family Medicine Physicians
SOC 29-1215
Care for whole families across decades and coordinate everything else.
The job
Median pay
$244k
$162k to $334k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing
+3.3% projected
Openings a year
3k
BLS projection
Typical education
Doctoral (MD) plus residency
Our model
AI displacement risk
Very low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
34/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
43rd pct
More exposed than 43% of occupations · modeled estimate · 58th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
79/100
Key skills
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Writing
- Speaking
- Active Learning
Pay and jobs by state
BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.
| State | Jobs | Per 1,000 | vs national | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10,840 | 0.6 | 0.9× | $252k~ |
| Florida | 7,310 | 0.7 | 1.1× | $228k~ |
| Texas | 6,190 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $236k |
| Pennsylvania | 4,190 | 0.7 | 1.0× | $306k |
| New York | 4,000 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $211k |
| Michigan | 3,770 | 0.9 | 1.2× | $214k |
| Missouri | 3,740 | 1.3 | 1.8× | $171k |
| Georgia | 3,690 | 0.8 | 1.1× | $259k |
| Massachusetts | 3,540 | 1.0 | 1.4× | $277k |
| New Jersey | 3,050 | 0.7 | 1.0× | $292k |
All 51 states
| State | Jobs | Per 1,000 | vs national | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 2,930 | 0.7 | 1.0× | $223k |
| Colorado | 2,700 | 0.9 | 1.4× | $266k |
| Arizona | 2,620 | 0.8 | 1.2× | $293k |
| Tennessee | 2,260 | 0.7 | 1.0× | $227k |
| Oklahoma | 2,170 | 1.3 | 1.8× | $361k |
| Illinois | 1,960 | 0.3 | 0.5× | $245k |
| Minnesota | 1,820 | 0.6 | 0.9× | $280k |
| Alabama | 1,590 | 0.8 | 1.1× | $135k~ |
| North Carolina | 1,520 | 0.3 | 0.4× | $215k |
| Ohio | 1,490 | 0.3 | 0.4× | $224k |
| Oregon | 1,490 | 0.8 | 1.1× | $293k |
| Wisconsin | 1,470 | 0.5 | 0.7× | $291k |
| Indiana | 1,410 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $262k |
| Washington | 1,270 | 0.4 | 0.5× | $293k |
| South Carolina | 1,200 | 0.5 | 0.8× | $239k |
| Kentucky | 1,170 | 0.6 | 0.8× | $249k |
| Iowa | 1,140 | 0.7 | 1.1× | $265k |
| Louisiana | 1,090 | 0.6 | 0.8× | $255k |
| Maryland | 1,050 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $286k |
| Nebraska | 830 | 0.8 | 1.2× | $229k |
| Connecticut | 790 | 0.5 | 0.7× | $164k |
| Alaska | 760 | 2.3 | 3.4× | $323k |
| Maine | 730 | 1.1 | 1.6× | $240k |
| Idaho | 690 | 0.8 | 1.2× | $347k |
| New Mexico | 650 | 0.7 | 1.1× | $228k |
| Delaware | 640 | 1.3 | 1.9× | $228k |
| Mississippi | 570 | 0.5 | 0.7× | $236k |
| South Dakota | 550 | 1.2 | 1.7× | $240k |
| Utah | 550 | 0.3 | 0.5× | $298k |
| Montana | 460 | 0.9 | 1.3× | $331k |
| New Hampshire | 350 | 0.5 | 0.7× | $269k |
| Nevada | 340 | 0.2 | 0.3× | $252k |
| West Virginia | 320 | 0.5 | 0.7× | $273k |
| Arkansas | 290 | 0.2 | 0.3× | $216k |
| Hawaii | 260 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $218k |
| North Dakota | 260 | 0.6 | 0.9× | $280k |
| Vermont | 240 | 0.8 | 1.1× | $239k |
| Kansas | 210 | 0.1 | 0.2× | $229k |
| Rhode Island | 210 | 0.4 | 0.6× | $467k |
| Washington DC | 150 | 0.2 | 0.3× | $233k |
| Wyoming | 100 | 0.4 | 0.5× | $265k |
Top metro areas
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ4,870 jobs · $249k median
- Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH2,950 jobs · $284k median
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,240 jobs · $259k median
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA2,170 jobs · $305k median
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA2,060 jobs · $259k median
- Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ2,050 jobs · $342k median
- Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI1,940 jobs · $182k median
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,790 jobs · $294k median
Where this ranks
Explore Family Medicine Physicians interactively →Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.