Self-employment method
Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists
50,251 people filed as a nonemployer business under this industry code in 2022 — no payroll, no employees, just them. These are gross receipts reported to the IRS, before any expense is taken out.
Median GROSS RECEIPTS for the year — money in, before rent, materials, fuel, insurance or tax. This is not take-home pay.
Share who grossed under $10,000 for the whole year — before expenses.
The middle half, in gross receipts. A quarter of filers took less than the lower figure.
Source: US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
How often it does not work out
Of the 50,251 people who filed under this code in 2022, 21.34% grossed under $10,000 for the entire year — before a single expense was deducted.
That is a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes GROSS RECEIPTS, not net income. Everyone inside that share earned less than the figure suggests once rent, materials, mileage, insurance and self-employment tax came out — and filers who grossed well above the threshold may still have netted nothing. The true share of people who earn nothing meaningful from this is higher than the number above, never lower.
Denominator: establishments_total = 50,251 · US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
Every filer, by what they grossed
The full distribution Census publishes. The median above is interpolated inside the band that holds the 50th percentile.
| Gross receipts for the year | Filers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 5,945 | 11.8% |
| $5,000 to $9,999 | 4,780 | 9.5% |
| $10,000 to $24,999 | 8,324 | 16.6% |
| $25,000 to $49,999 | 8,366 | 16.6% |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 9,880 | 19.7% |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 9,103 | 18.1% |
| $250,000 to $499,999 | 3,004 | 6.0% |
| $500,000 to $999,999 | 786 | 1.6% |
| $1,000,000 to $2,499,999 | 63 | 0.1% |
Who this suits
$43,158 in median gross receipts — $3,596 a month — is a strong figure for this dataset. Revenue at that level survives a normal cost base, which is not true of most codes on this site.
50,251 people filed under this code. That is enough that Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists has a going local rate in most places, and enough that you will be quoted against someone else.
12,964 filers, 25.8% of the total, took $100,000 or more in receipts. Read the size of that group as evidence about turnover in Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists rather than about income: the costs scale with it.
Independent practice here suits clinicians who can also run a small business — credentialing, claims, insurance and payroll are the other half of the job.
There is no qualification, licence or minimum to appear in this data — you file and you are counted. Read the receipts distribution as the price of that: no barrier at the door means no filter before the numbers.
Who should not do this
Bottom quarter under $13,312, top quarter over $106,480: 8.0x, or $7,764 a month. At this stretch the label has stopped describing one occupation, and every summary statistic about it — including the midpoint — should be treated with suspicion.
The bottom quarter of Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists earns under $13,312 — $36,708 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.
Do not start this without malpractice cover and a credentialing plan in place; neither is a thing to arrange after the first patient.
21.3% of the 50,251 filers in 2022 — 10,723 people — took under $10,000 in receipts for the year. Low for this dataset, and still a fifth of everyone who tried it earning almost nothing before costs.
That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.
What the spread tells you
At 8.0x, the gap between $13,312 and $106,480 is the shape of a field with a small, well-paid top. $43,158 is real and it is not a forecast — the people quoting the upper end at you are describing a minority.
The middle half of this field earns between $13,312 and $106,480. That is $93,168 of range, with $43,158 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $106,480, the 75th percentile, is worth $63,322 a year more than the $43,158 midpoint and $93,168 more than the $13,312 a quarter of Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists settle for.
From $43,158 the drop to $13,312 is $29,846 and the climb to $106,480 is $63,322. When the upper half of the range is that much longer, the average is pulled well above the median — which is exactly why this site publishes the median.
Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists takes $20.74 in revenue — $6.40 at the bottom quarter and $51.19 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.
The raw counts, before anyone interprets them: under $5,000, 5,945 filers. $5,000 to $9,999, 4,780. $10,000 to $24,999, 8,324. Over $100,000, 12,956 — and 3,853 over $250,000.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Every figure above is GROSS RECEIPTS, before expenses — money that arrived before rent, materials, fuel, insurance and self-employment tax. The $43,158 midpoint for Offices of Physicians, Mental Health Specialists is not take-home pay and is not comparable to a $43,158 salary.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $43,158 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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