The highest-paying states for emergency medicine physicians (ranked by average annual salary) are listed in Table 1. The entry level salary (as measured by the salary of the lowest 10% paid earners) and the number of employment of emergency medicine physicians in those states are also shown in the table. As shown in the table, with an annual salary of $232,590, California is the highest paying state for emergency medicine physicians. It is followed by South Dakota (average annual salary $232,430). The salary and employment information is computed from data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in April 2023 [1]. For more salary information of emergency medicine physicians in a specific state, use the links in the table.
| Rank | State | Average Salary i | Entry Level Salary i |
# of Empl. i |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | $232,590 |
$66,990 | 0 |
| 2 | South Dakota | $232,430 |
$196,630 | 80 |
| 3 | South Carolina | $214,960 |
$153,020 | 110 |
| 4 | Missouri | $207,000 |
$189,990 | 180 |
| 5 | Tennessee | $170,020 |
$62,910 | 160 |
Note: some states are missing from this table because the median salary information of emergency medicine physicians in those states is not available at this time.
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