Healthcare Practitioners

Physicians & Surgeons

SOC 29-1210

Diagnose and treat illness and injury after one of the longest training paths there is.

The job

Median pay

$239k

Estimated

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing

+3.6% projected

Openings a year

21k

BLS projection

Typical education

Doctoral (MD/DO) plus residency

Our model

AI exposure

Not measured

No task data or O*NET work context for this role, so it is not ranked

Future-proof

78/100

At a glance

For Physicians & Surgeons, the typical entry route is a medical degree plus residency. Roughly 20,800 positions open up annually for Physicians & Surgeons, counting growth and replacement. BLS projects employment to grow 3.6% from 2025 to 2035, within a point of typical growth across the occupations we cover. BLS gives no wage for this occupation by itself, so the pay above is borrowed or estimated and the summary does not compare it. Set against Physician Assistants (+21%), the +3.6% projection here is 17 points lower.

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Key skills

Clinical reasoning
Stamina
Communication
Precision
Lifelong learning

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	76,103 (estimated)	4.2 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$386k (estimated)
Texas	61,629 (estimated)	4.4 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$260k (estimated)
Florida	51,317 (estimated)	5.2 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$255k (estimated)
New York	47,450 (estimated)	4.9 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$326k (estimated)
Pennsylvania	33,631 (estimated)	5.5 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$256k (estimated)
Ohio	31,469 (estimated)	5.7 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$253k (estimated)
Illinois	29,109 (estimated)	4.8 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$266k (estimated)
North Carolina	25,162 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$255k (estimated)
Georgia	23,471 (estimated)	4.8 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$262k (estimated)
Michigan	22,658 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$262k (estimated)

All 50 states and DC

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
New Jersey	21,883 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$322k (estimated)
Massachusetts	19,264 (estimated)	5.3 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$314k (estimated)
Virginia	17,716 (estimated)	4.3 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$273k (estimated)
Tennessee	16,761 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$246k (estimated)
Indiana	16,249 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$253k (estimated)
Arizona	16,165 (estimated)	5.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$290k (estimated)
Missouri	15,991 (estimated)	5.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$248k (estimated)
Minnesota	15,095 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$310k (estimated)
Washington	14,787 (estimated)	4.2 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$341k (estimated)
Wisconsin	14,582 (estimated)	5.0 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$269k (estimated)
Maryland	13,239 (estimated)	4.8 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$309k (estimated)
Colorado	11,887 (estimated)	4.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$307k (estimated)
Louisiana	11,348 (estimated)	5.9 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$232k (estimated)
South Carolina	11,226 (estimated)	4.9 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$250k (estimated)
Alabama	11,163 (estimated)	5.3 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$211k (estimated)
Kentucky	10,836 (estimated)	5.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$246k (estimated)
Connecticut	9,121 (estimated)	5.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$313k (estimated)
Oklahoma	8,729 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$246k (estimated)
Oregon	8,314 (estimated)	4.2 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$370k (estimated)
Kansas	7,489 (estimated)	5.2 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$245k (estimated)
Arkansas	7,081 (estimated)	5.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$235k (estimated)
Iowa	7,076 (estimated)	4.5 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$243k (estimated)
Utah	6,732 (estimated)	3.9 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$258k (estimated)
Mississippi	6,614 (estimated)	5.7 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$209k (estimated)
Nevada	5,862 (estimated)	3.8 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$300k (estimated)
Nebraska	5,273 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$257k (estimated)
West Virginia	4,952 (estimated)	7.1 (estimated)	1.4× (estimated)	$240k (estimated)
New Mexico	4,000 (estimated)	4.6 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$271k (estimated)
Idaho	3,957 (estimated)	4.6 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$264k (estimated)
New Hampshire	3,500 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$302k (estimated)
Maine	3,465 (estimated)	5.4 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$273k (estimated)
Delaware	2,781 (estimated)	5.7 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$305k (estimated)
Hawaii	2,753 (estimated)	4.4 (estimated)	0.9× (estimated)	$332k (estimated)
South Dakota	2,724 (estimated)	6.0 (estimated)	1.2× (estimated)	$244k (estimated)
Rhode Island	2,588 (estimated)	5.2 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$304k (estimated)
Montana	2,468 (estimated)	4.8 (estimated)	1.0× (estimated)	$257k (estimated)
North Dakota	2,342 (estimated)	5.5 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$250k (estimated)
Washington DC	2,289 (estimated)	3.3 (estimated)	0.7× (estimated)	$315k (estimated)
Vermont	1,670 (estimated)	5.5 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$274k (estimated)
Alaska	1,652 (estimated)	5.1 (estimated)	1.1× (estimated)	$331k (estimated)
Wyoming	1,138 (estimated)	4.1 (estimated)	0.8× (estimated)	$260k (estimated)

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Outlook from BLS (Employment Projections 2025-2035). BLS publishes no wage for this occupation, so that figure is a Career Atlas estimate. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.