Occupation / job
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $292,910 midpoint is $20,240 a month above the $50,020 typical American job, which puts Obstetricians and Gynecologists near the ceiling of published federal wage data. Everything at this level is gated, and the gate is usually years long.
With 21,260 employed as Obstetricians and Gynecologists, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.
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.
We carry no verified training length for Obstetricians and Gynecologists — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $179,810, a quarter over $369,390: $15,798 a month between them at a 2.1x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Obstetricians and Gynecologists actually earn.
Even at the 25th percentile Obstetricians and Gynecologists pays $179,810, $129,790 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 you cannot do nights, cannot carry medico-legal exposure, or need to be finished thinking about work when the shift ends.
There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 21,260 people employed as Obstetricians and Gynecologists; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.
What the spread tells you
A 2.1x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $179,810 and $369,390, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
Put in money rather than ratios: $179,810 at the 25th percentile, $292,910 at the midpoint, $369,390 at the 75th. $189,580 separates the quarter of Obstetricians and Gynecologists at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
Getting to $369,390, the 75th percentile, is worth $76,480 a year more than the $292,910 midpoint and $189,580 more than the $179,810 a quarter of Obstetricians and Gynecologists settle for.
The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $113,100 above the $179,810 bottom quarter but only $76,480 below the $369,390 top quarter. Most of the distance in Obstetricians and Gynecologists is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Obstetricians and Gynecologists is $140.82 an hour. The quarters sit at $86.44 and $177.59, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $292,910 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the hourly figure is $292,910 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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