Anesthesiologist Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly rate, to match how your anesthesia contract quotes pay.
2. Enter your base pay, your hours per week and your weeks per year. Add other annual pay or a second offer if you have them.
3. Read your annual gross pay, the pay-period amounts and where your hourly pay sits in the BLS wage table.

What each result tells you:

The first preset is an example, not a typical wage. It shows an anesthesiologist paid $400,000 for 45 hours a week and 48 weeks. That is $185.19 an hour, about the 49th percentile by hourly pay and about the 52nd by annual pay.

The anesthesiologist salary calculator is a gross pay converter tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) wage table for anesthesiologists, occupation code 29-1211. It shows your pay per year, month, pay period, week and hour, and the percentile band that pay falls in.

Anesthesiologists administer anesthetics and analgesics for pain management before, during or after surgery. They adjust the anesthetic during an operation and monitor heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure and breathing. They also provide pain relief in intensive care, in labor and for chronic pain.

Three features of the table stand out. The spread is wide: the 25th percentile is $207,000 and the 75th is $490,530. The mean of $360,570 is $30,920 below the median, because a long low tail pulls the average down. And the occupation is concentrated: offices of physicians hold 74.0 percent of the 38,760 employee jobs.

The code covers physician anesthesiologists only. Nurse anesthetists have their own BLS code, 29-1151, and their wages are not in this table.

BLS publishes one table for the whole specialty. It has no cardiac, pediatric or pain medicine breakdown, so this page has no subspecialty selector.

The calculator converts your pay between time periods, then places your hourly pay in the BLS wage distribution for anesthesiologists.

1. Convert. An hourly rate is multiplied by hours and weeks. A salary is divided by them to get pay per hour.
2. Add other pay. Call pay, year-end bonuses and profit sharing you typed are added to the annual total only.
3. Find the band. Your base hourly pay is checked against the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages. Your base annual pay is checked against the annual wages in the same way.
4. Interpolate. W1 and W2 are the two BLS wages around your pay. P1 and P2 are their percentiles.
5. Measure the gap. Your hourly pay minus the median, then divided by the median.

The table below is the full BLS wage table for anesthesiologists. It is the only table this page uses.

Source: BLS OEWS, national estimates, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

BLS annual wages equal the hourly wage times 2,080 hours. That is 40 hours for 52 weeks. The verdict uses hourly pay so that part-time and long-week schedules are judged fairly. The annual percentile is shown beside it. The two match only on a 2,080-hour year.

An anesthesiologist earns a $420,000 base salary. Operating room days and call average 50 hours a week over 46 worked weeks. Call pay adds $35,000 a year. A second group offers $460,000 for the same workload.

The salary beats the annual median of $391,490, so the annual percentile reads 57th. The hourly rate of $182.61 is below the hourly median of $188.22, so the hourly percentile reads 48th. The gap comes from the 2,300-hour year. The second offer lifts hourly pay to about the 56th percentile. The $35,000 of call pay raises the annual total only.

Industry

Employer type changes the average by more than $113,890 between the top and fifth industry. Outpatient care centers lead, but they employ only 180 anesthesiologists.

The industries BLS lists with the highest annual mean wage for anesthesiologists. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

Where Anesthesiologists Work

The industries BLS lists with the highest employment of anesthesiologists. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

Hospital-employed anesthesiologists average $306,920, which is $70,900 below the mean in offices of physicians.

State

BLS lists the states with the highest mean wage, but for 13 of them it shows only that the mean is at or above $239,200. The first two states in that list with a dollar figure are Washington, at $508,520, and Minnesota, at $449,130. The Washington estimate carries a 12.7 percent relative standard error, so it is imprecise.

Hours and Call

BLS wages are straight-time pay and exclude on-call pay. A salary earned over 2,300 hours is a lower hourly wage than the same salary over 2,080. The salary to hourly calculator converts a salary on any schedule.

Employee or Partner

The survey covers employees. Self-employed anesthesiologists and partners in unincorporated groups are left out, so partner distributions are missing from the table. Independent contractors can size one tax cost with the self-employment tax calculator.

Sample Size

The employment estimate has an 11.0 percent relative standard error and the mean wage 2.8 percent. Treat small gaps to the median with care.

Anesthesiologists have the fifth-highest median of the 17 physician and surgeon occupations BLS lists. Pediatric surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists and surgeons, all other rank higher.

Medians and job counts: BLS OEWS, May 2025. The all physicians and surgeons median is from the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Read on 2026-10-02.

The anesthesiologist median is 1.42 times the median for all physicians and surgeons. It is $29,370 below the radiologist median and $147,310 above the family medicine median.

Benchmarking an Employed Contract

Enter the base salary and your real weekly hours. The band shows the contract against employed anesthesiologists nationwide.

Converting an Hourly or Locum Rate

Enter the hourly rate with the weeks you expect to work. At $200.00 an hour for 40 hours and 44 weeks, annual pay is $352,000.00. The hourly rate sits near the 56th percentile, while the annual figure sits near the 45th.

Weighing a Call Schedule

Keep the salary and raise the hours. The hourly percentile shows what extra call costs per hour worked.

Planning After Residency

Set a first attending salary against a loan balance with the student loan payoff calculator. The figure here is gross pay, so read the gross vs net income guide before you budget.

1. Using the Mean as the Typical Wage

For anesthesiologists the mean, $360,570, is below the median, $391,490. Half of employed anesthesiologists earn more than the median.

2. Quoting the Old $239,200 Figure

Older releases showed anesthesiologist wages only as equal to or greater than $239,200. That was a reporting limit. The May 2025 table prints real percentiles above it.

3. Mixing Anesthesiologist and Nurse Anesthetist Data

The two occupations have separate BLS codes and separate wage tables. A figure for one says nothing about the other.

4. Folding Call Pay into Base Pay

BLS excludes on-call pay. Adding it to base pay inflates your percentile. Put it in the other annual pay field.

5. Annualising a Locum Rate at 2,080 Hours

Contract work rarely fills 52 weeks of 40 hours. Enter the weeks you will be paid for.

6. Trusting the Top Industry Row

The $420,810 outpatient mean rests on 180 jobs. It is a weak guide to a single offer.

The conversion is exact arithmetic. The percentile is an estimate, because BLS publishes only five points of the wage distribution.

BLS wages are straight-time gross pay. They include production bonuses and incentive pay. They exclude overtime pay, on-call pay, shift differentials, profit sharing and year-end bonuses. Keep the excluded items in the other annual pay field so the comparison stays like for like.

The BLS median annual wage for anesthesiologists was $391,490 in May 2025. The mean was $360,570. The middle half earned between $207,000 and $490,530.

The BLS median hourly wage was $188.22 in May 2025. The 75th percentile was $235.83 and the 90th was $267.85.

The 90th percentile annual wage was $557,130 in May 2025. One employed anesthesiologist in ten earned more than that. BLS publishes no figure above the 90th percentile.

Outpatient care centers have the highest mean, at $420,810 a year, across only 180 jobs. Offices of physicians average $377,820 across 28,700 jobs.

Offices of physicians employ 28,700 of the 38,760 anesthesiologists in the wage survey. General medical and surgical hospitals employ 8,010.

Yes. Their median ranks fifth of the 17 physician and surgeon occupations BLS lists. It is $115,560 above the median for all physicians and surgeons.

No. Code 29-1211 covers physician anesthesiologists only. Nurse anesthetists are code 29-1151 and have a separate wage table that this page does not use.

No. The survey covers employees and excludes the self-employed and owners or partners of unincorporated firms. Partner income is missing from the table.

BLS projects 4 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, from 41,500 to 43,000 jobs. Those counts include the self-employed, so they exceed the 38,760 employee jobs in the wage table.

Physicians typically need a bachelor degree, 4 years of medical school and 3 to 9 years of internship and residency, according to BLS. A fellowship adds 1 to 3 years. All states require a licence.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-1211 Anesthesiologists. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and Surgeons (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Duties, education, 2025 median pay by specialty and the 2025 to 2035 outlook. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS OEWS frequently asked questions (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Who the survey covers, the self-employed exclusion and the wage reporting limit. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS technical notes for the May 2025 OEWS estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Defines the wage: straight-time gross pay, 2,080-hour year. Read 2026-10-02.)