Occupation / job
Pediatricians, General
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
At $210,040 — $160,020 a year clear of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — Pediatricians, General 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.
39,390 people do this work nationally. That is the size at which Pediatricians, General becomes a career rather than a post — enough employers in a normal city that leaving one of them is a decision rather than a crisis.
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 Pediatricians, General — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $138,290, a quarter over $273,700: $11,284 a month between them at a 2.0x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Pediatricians, General actually earn.
The bottom quarter of this field earns $138,290 — $66.48 an hour, $88,270 above the $50,020 national midpoint. When even the worst-paid quarter of Pediatricians, General is this far ahead, the barrier to entry is doing the work of keeping it there.
Avoid it if you could not carry clinical responsibility for an outcome that goes badly through nobody’s fault.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 39,390 figure counts people already working as Pediatricians, General, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
From $138,290 to $273,700 at 2.0x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Pediatricians, General.
The middle half of this field earns between $138,290 and $273,700. That is $135,410 of range, with $210,040 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $273,700, the 75th percentile, is worth $63,660 a year more than the $210,040 midpoint and $135,410 more than the $138,290 a quarter of Pediatricians, General settle for.
There is $71,750 between $138,290 and $210,040, and $63,660 between $210,040 and $273,700. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Pediatricians, General at the bottom of it.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $100.98 at the midpoint for Pediatricians, General, $66.48 at the 25th percentile and $131.58 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
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 Pediatricians, General for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $210,040 describes them.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Pediatricians, General, the hourly figure is $210,040 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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