Healthcare Practitioners

Pediatricians

SOC 29-1221

Provide primary medical care to infants, children, and adolescents.

The job

Median pay

$210k

$138k to $274k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing

+1.5% projected

Openings a year

BLS projection

Typical education

MD plus residency

Our model

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

47/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

75th pct

More exposed than 75% of occupations · modeled estimate · 51st pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

77/100

At a glance

Pay for Pediatricians centers on a $210,040 median, $142,850 above the typical occupation we cover, and more than double the median across Healthcare Practitioners. Modeled AI exposure sits at the 75th percentile, with displacement risk rated low and works-with-AI at 47/100, leaning toward augmentation. The usual entry for Pediatricians is a medical degree plus residency. Projected employment change for 2025 to 2035 is +1.5%, behind the typical occupation we cover. BLS projects about 1,000 openings a year, among the smaller pools in our data. Set against Nurse Anesthetists (+9.7%), the +1.5% projection here is 8.2 points lower.

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Key skills

Speaking
Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Writing
Science

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 50 states and DC. 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	6,680	0.4	1.4×	$214k
New York	4,570	0.5	1.9×	$212k
Texas	2,740	0.2	0.8×	$173k
Massachusetts	2,310	0.6	2.5×	$221k
Ohio	2,110	0.4	1.5×	$218k
Michigan	1,340	0.3	1.2×	$205k
Connecticut	1,310	0.8	3.0×	$217k
New Jersey	1,280	0.3	1.2×	$202k
Arizona	1,230	0.4	1.5×	$234k
Georgia	1,225 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$150k

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Illinois	1,180	0.2	0.8×	$197k
Pennsylvania	1,120	0.2	0.7×	$226k
Indiana	1,080	0.3	1.3×	$177k
Minnesota	890	0.3	1.2×	$227k
Virginia	750	0.2	0.7×	$196k
North Carolina	740	0.1	0.6×	$184k
Tennessee	740	0.2	0.9×	$176k
Florida	700	0.1	0.3×	$182k
Oregon	620	0.3	1.2×	$225k
Alabama	583 (estimated)	0.3 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$209k
Maryland	580	0.2	0.8×	$182k
Colorado	570	0.2	0.8×	$196k
Missouri	500	0.2	0.7×	$224k
Washington	480	0.1	0.5×	$170k
Hawaii	470	0.7	3.0×	$197k
South Carolina	420	0.2	0.7×	$217k
Kentucky	380	0.2	0.8×	$176k
Wisconsin	350	0.1	0.5×	$270k
Utah	310	0.2	0.7×	$210k
Nevada	306 (estimated)	0.2 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$232k (estimated)
Nebraska	290	0.3	1.1×	$176k
Oklahoma	280	0.2	0.7×	$237k
New Mexico	270	0.3	1.2×	$202k
Iowa	230	0.1	0.6×	$262k
New Hampshire	210	0.3	1.2×	$273k
Delaware	180	0.4	1.5×	$219k
Rhode Island	180	0.4	1.4×	$218k
West Virginia	140	0.2	0.8×	$158k
Maine	130	0.2	0.8×	$246k
Vermont	130	0.4	1.7×	$215k
Washington DC	119 (estimated)	0.2 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$79k
Kansas	110	0.1	0.3×	$210k
Arkansas	100	0.1	0.3×	$160k
Wyoming	100	0.4	1.4×	$202k (estimated)
North Dakota	90	0.2	0.8×	$235k
South Dakota	80	0.2	0.7×	$258k
Alaska	60	0.2	0.7×	$267k
Idaho	60	0.1	0.3×	$298k
Montana	50	0.1	0.4×	$273k
Louisiana	40	0.0	0.1×	$503k
Mississippi	40	0.0	0.1×	$184k

Top metro areas

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ4,510 jobs · $216k median
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA3,080 jobs · $177k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,860 jobs · $221k median
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,080 jobs · $234k median
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,040 jobs · $124k median
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN920 jobs · $170k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD870 jobs · $226k median
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN860 jobs · $188k median

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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.