Healthcare pay, from BLS evidence

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Published pay for physicians, nurses, providers, allied health staff and healthcare leaders. National, state, metro and nonmetro figures come from BLS OEWS May 2025. Read the SOC mapping before treating a figure as pay for your vacancy.

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State pay tables

Choose a state or territory to see published medians for the roles we recruit.

Family editions

The full edition covers every family. Each shorter family PDF has national percentiles, selected metro tables, prior-release medians and pay mix notes.

Primary Care & Hospital-Based Physicians

Medical Specialty Physicians

Surgical Specialty Physicians

Advanced Practice Providers: NP, PA, CRNA

Physician Executives & Medical Directors

Nursing Leadership

Post-Acute, Senior Living & Home-Based Care Leadership

Practice, Ambulatory & Surgery Center Operations

Behavioral Health Leadership & Licensed Clinicians

Revenue Cycle, Reimbursement & HIM

Healthcare IT, Epic & Clinical Informatics

Imaging, Lab, Rehab & Diagnostic Services Leadership

Executive Leadership: C-Suite & VP

Acute & Critical Care Nursing

Perioperative & Procedural Nursing

Specialty, Outpatient & Community Nursing

Medical Imaging & Radiation Therapy

Cardiovascular, Respiratory & Neurodiagnostic Technologists

Pharmacists & Pharmacy Technicians

Behavioral Health & ABA Clinicians

Medical Coding, Billing & Patient Financial Services

Locum Tenens Providers

Metro areas

How do you get the full salary guide?

The full guide as a PDF, plus a personalized hiring market brief for a role and metro. Enter a work email to unlock it. The download uses the same BLS release as these pages, with the same mapping labels, so a figure in the PDF matches the figure on the role page.

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How should a healthcare employer use this salary guide?

Healthcare Headhunters uses BLS OEWS to give employers published occupational wage data, not a promised offer range for every niche title. Start by choosing the role you need to hire. Read its mapping badge and occupation name. A specialty can map to a broader job even when the recruiting work is quite different.

The role selector covers our healthcare taxonomy. A search for a familiar acronym should help you reach the right occupation discussion. If no reasonable mapping exists, the guide does not invent a wage. You can ask us about the search without receiving an unsourced figure disguised as public data.

Choose the work area after checking the occupation. A state estimate and a metro estimate describe different geographies. The guide identifies what was actually published and where a fallback is used. A neighboring city name is not permission to relabel a national or state observation as a local salary.

The tools answer different employer questions. The offer checker compares your figure with published wage points. The vacancy calculator uses your own costs. The comparison tool puts occupations and areas beside each other. The posting tool returns a published band, not a recommended rate your facility must pay.

Screen results do not need an email address. A work email unlocks a saved report or export through the existing intake. Your tool inputs are not submitted merely because you calculate a result. You decide whether to send them with a request for the gated output.

Read the methodology before using a figure in a decision. BLS definitions, suppression, and top-coding affect interpretation. The figures are useful evidence, but they do not describe your whole offer. Your employer still needs to explain schedules, duties, and the pay elements it can actually provide.

Can you read wage results without sending an email?

Yes. Published results and the tools are available on screen. The email gate applies to saved or downloadable outputs. Reading a table is not a request for an automated marketing sequence.

Why can two healthcare titles show the same wages?

They can resolve to the same BLS occupation and area. BLS does not publish a separate distribution for every facility title. We show the mapping rather than inventing a difference between those figures.

Which source should you cite when sharing a figure?

Use the source line on the result, including the BLS reference period, SOC occupation, and area. Do not cite the guide edition as if it were the wage period. The methodology explains the release records.

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