Family Medicine Physicians

At $244,180 — $194,160 a year clear of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — Family Medicine Physicians sits at the top of what BLS publishes. Read the gate before the figure: at this level there is always one, and it is usually measured in years.

National employment is 107,510. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.

These roles suit people who want responsibility for the whole of a patient’s problem rather than a part of it, and who can carry that home without it consuming them.

No verified preparation time is on file for Family Medicine Physicians. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.

At 2.1x, from $162,420 to $334,270, the two halves of Family Medicine Physicians are not really doing the same job. $14,320 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.

Even at the 25th percentile Family Medicine Physicians pays $162,420, $112,400 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.

Avoid it if the length and cost of the training would be unbearable if you changed your mind halfway.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 107,510 figure counts people already working as Family Medicine Physicians, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

At 2.1x the range from $162,420 to $334,270 is doing more explaining than the job title is. Something sorts people across that distance — sector, speciality, or who employs them — and finding out what it is matters more than the $244,180 midpoint.

The middle half of this field earns between $162,420 and $334,270. That is $171,850 of range, with $244,180 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $334,270. Reaching it from the $244,180 midpoint is $90,090 a year; reaching it from the $162,420 that the bottom quarter of Family Medicine Physicians earn is $171,850.

$81,760 down to $162,420, $90,090 up to $334,270: the midpoint of Family Medicine Physicians is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $78.08 at the bottom quarter, $117.39 at the midpoint, $160.70 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.