Pediatric Surgeons

$559,030 puts Pediatric Surgeons among the highest medians BLS publishes, roughly 1018% above the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Pay at this level always has a gate in front of it: a residency, a bar exam, a clearance, or a decade.

National employment of 1,190 makes Pediatric Surgeons a rare job rather than an uncommon one. Expect to move for the first post and to move again for the second, because waiting for a local vacancy can mean waiting years.

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 Pediatric Surgeons — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

A quarter of the field earns under $336,380 and a quarter over $583,200: $246,820 between them, a ratio of 1.7x. Wide enough that the first offer you get tells you more about your prospects than the median does.

The bottom quarter of this field earns $336,380 — $161.72 an hour, $286,360 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Pediatric Surgeons is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.

Avoid it if you cannot do nights, cannot carry medico-legal exposure, or need to be finished thinking about work when the shift ends.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 1,190 figure counts people already working as Pediatric Surgeons, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

From $336,380 to $583,200 at a ratio of 1.7x is wide enough that two people with the same job title have materially different jobs. $559,030 sits in the middle of that and describes neither of them especially well.

The middle half of this field earns between $336,380 and $583,200. That is $246,820 of range, with $559,030 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $336,380 and $583,200 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $559,030. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $24,170; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $246,820.

The midpoint sits high inside its own range: $222,650 above the $336,380 bottom quarter but only $24,170 below the $583,200 top quarter. Most of the distance in Pediatric Surgeons is spent climbing out of the bottom, and once you are past the middle there is not much further to go.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $161.72 at the bottom quarter, $268.76 at the midpoint, $280.38 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.