A pediatrician salary calculator converts pay between annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly and hourly amounts, then places it in official wage data. Employed general pediatricians in the United States had a median wage of $210,040 a year, or $100.98 an hour, in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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How to Use the Pediatrician Salary Calculator
- Choose annual salary or hourly rate, the way your contract states base pay.
- 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.
- 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:
| Result | What it means |
|---|---|
| Annual gross pay | Base pay for the year plus any other annual pay you entered, before tax. |
| Monthly, biweekly, weekly | Annual gross pay divided by 12, 26 and 52. |
| Hourly | Base pay per paid hour. This is the number compared with BLS. |
| BLS percentile band | The two published BLS percentiles your hourly pay falls between. |
| Approximate hourly percentile | A straight-line estimate between those two percentiles. BLS does not publish it. The verdict uses this number. |
| Annual base pay percentile | The same estimate for your yearly base pay against BLS annual wages, which assume 2,080 hours. |
| Gap to BLS median | Your hourly pay minus the BLS median hourly wage, in dollars and percent. |
| Full-time equivalent | Your hourly pay times 2,080 hours, the work year BLS uses for annual wages. |
| Second offer rows | The second offer as annual and hourly pay, its percentile and the yearly difference. |
The first preset is an example, not a typical wage. It shows a pediatrician on a $220,000 salary at 40 hours a week. That is $105.77 an hour, about the 54th percentile.
What Is a Pediatrician Salary?
A pediatrician salary is the gross pay an employed pediatrician earns in a year, before tax and deductions. BLS counts it under occupation code 29-1221, Pediatricians, General.
BLS describes the work this way: pediatricians provide care for infants, children, teenagers and young adults. Most give vaccinations and treat common illnesses, minor injuries and infectious diseases.
| Fact | Value (BLS) |
|---|---|
| Wage survey jobs, May 2025 | 39,390 employees |
| Jobs in 2025, self-employed included | 42,200 |
| Projected jobs in 2035 | 42,900, a rise of 1% |
| Typical entry education | Bachelor degree, 4 years of medical school, then 3 to 9 years of internship and residency |
| Licence | Required in every state |
| Largest employer | Offices of physicians, with 25,140 jobs |
These facts come from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook and the OEWS wage survey, read on 2026-10-02.
What the Code Covers
The code covers general pediatricians. Pediatric surgeons have their own code, 29-1243. The Handbook describes pediatric cardiologists and pediatric neurologists under cardiologists and neurologists. BLS publishes no separate wage table for a pediatric subspecialty, and this tool does not create one.
Who the Wage Table Leaves Out
The BLS wage survey covers employees only. It does not cover self-employed pediatricians or owners and partners of unincorporated practices. That is one reason the 42,200 job count is larger than the 39,390 in the wage survey.
How Does the Pediatrician Salary Calculator Work?
The calculator converts your pay between time periods, then places your hourly pay in the BLS wage distribution for general pediatricians.
Annual pay = hourly rate x hours per week x weeks per yearApproximate percentile = P1 + (your hourly - W1) / (W2 - W1) x (P2 - P1)- Convert. An hourly rate is multiplied by hours and weeks. A salary is divided by them to get pay per hour.
- Add other pay. Overtime, differentials and bonuses you typed are added to the annual total only.
- Find the band. Your base hourly pay is checked against the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages. Your annual base pay gets the same check against annual wages.
- Interpolate. W1 and W2 are the two BLS wages around your pay. P1 and P2 are their percentiles.
- Measure the gap. Your hourly pay minus the median, then divided by the median.
The table below is the full BLS wage table for general pediatricians that the tool uses.
| Pediatricians, General (SOC 29-1221) | Hourly wage | Annual wage |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $43.98 | $91,470 |
| 25th percentile | $66.49 | $138,290 |
| 50th percentile (median) | $100.98 | $210,040 |
| 75th percentile | $131.59 | $273,700 |
| 90th percentile | $162.74 | $338,500 |
| Mean (average) | $101.98 | $212,110 |
| Employment | 39,390 jobs | |
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 comparison uses hourly pay so that part-time and long-shift schedules are judged fairly.
Pediatrician Salary Example: a Four-Day Week
A pediatrician in a group office works four clinic days, about 32 paid hours a week, for 50 weeks. His salary is $168,000. A sign-on bonus adds $10,000 this year. A second office offers $180,000 for the same schedule.
| Step | Calculation | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours a year | 32 x 50 | 1,600 hours |
| Hourly pay | 168,000 / 1,600 | $105.00 |
| Annual gross pay | 168,000 + 10,000 | $178,000.00 |
| Monthly | 178,000 / 12 | $14,833.33 |
| Biweekly | 178,000 / 26 | $6,846.15 |
| BLS hourly band | 105.00 is between 100.98 and 131.59 | 50th to 75th percentile |
| Approximate hourly percentile | 50 + (105.00 - 100.98) / (131.59 - 100.98) x 25 | About the 53rd |
| Annual base pay percentile | 168,000 against BLS annual wages | About the 35th |
| Gap to median | 105.00 - 100.98 | +$4.02 an hour (+4.0%) |
| Second offer | 180,000 / 1,600 | $112.50 an hour, about the 59th, +$12,000.00 a year |
His salary looks low against annual wages, at about the 35th percentile. That comparison is unfair to him. BLS annual wages assume 2,080 hours, and he works 1,600. Per hour he earns $105.00, about the 53rd percentile and $4.02 above the median. The second offer lifts him to $112.50 an hour.
Factors That Change Pediatrician Pay
Part-Time Schedules
Paid hours change how a pediatrician salary should be read. A $168,000 salary is $80.77 an hour at 2,080 hours and $105.00 at 1,600 hours. Enter your real schedule.
Industry
Offices of physicians employ 63.8% of general pediatricians in the survey. General hospitals employ 24.1%.
| Industry | Jobs | Share of 39,390 jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Offices of Physicians | 25,140 | 63.8% |
| General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | 9,490 | 24.1% |
| Outpatient Care Centers | 2,150 | 5.5% |
| Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools | 1,770 | 4.5% |
| Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals | 540 | 1.4% |
The industries with the highest employment of general pediatricians that BLS lists. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.
The highest mean wages are not all in the largest industries.
| Industry | Annual mean wage | Versus national mean |
|---|---|---|
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | $285,160 | +$73,050 |
| Outpatient Care Centers | $241,990 | +$29,880 |
| Offices of Physicians | $215,790 | +$3,680 |
| Local Government, excluding Schools and Hospitals | $214,480 | +$2,370 |
| Offices of Other Health Practitioners | $209,770 | -$2,340 |
The five industries with the highest annual mean wage for general pediatricians. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.
Management of companies tops the list, but its estimate carries an 11.0% relative standard error. Offices of other health practitioners carry 22.8%.
State
Louisiana has the highest annual mean wage for general pediatricians at $378,020. Its estimate has a 12.0% relative standard error, so read it with care.
| State | Annual mean wage |
|---|---|
| Louisiana | $378,020 |
| South Dakota | $288,400 |
| Montana | $284,770 |
| Alaska | $282,020 |
| Idaho | $273,550 |
The states with the highest annual mean wage for general pediatricians. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.
None of the five is among the five states with the most pediatrician jobs. The largest are California with 6,680, New York with 4,570 and Texas with 2,740.
Bonus and Call Pay
BLS wages include incentive pay and production bonuses. They exclude overtime pay, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. Put a sign-on bonus in the other annual pay field.
Pediatrician Pay vs Other Physicians
General pediatricians have the lowest median wage of the 17 physician occupations that BLS lists. All figures are May 2025 medians from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, read on 2026-10-02.
| Occupation | Median annual wage | Difference from pediatricians |
|---|---|---|
| Pediatric surgeons | $559,030 | +$348,990 |
| Psychiatrists | $281,870 | +$71,830 |
| All physicians and surgeons | $275,930 | +$65,890 |
| General internal medicine physicians | $256,560 | +$46,520 |
| Neurologists | $248,560 | +$38,520 |
| Family medicine physicians | $244,180 | +$34,140 |
| Pediatricians, general (29-1221) | $210,040 | 0 |
The pediatrician median is $65,890 below the median for all physicians and surgeons. It is $34,140 below family medicine, the next lowest.
Pay inside the occupation still varies widely. The 90th percentile, $338,500, is 3.7 times the 10th percentile, $91,470.
When to Use the Pediatrician Salary Calculator
Reading a Part-Time Contract
Enter the salary with the paid hours and weeks. The hourly percentile shows the contract on equal terms with full-time pay.
Comparing an Office and a Hospital Offer
Enter one as base pay and one as the second offer. Use the same hours for both, or run the tool twice.
Converting an Hourly Urgent Care Rate
Choose hourly and set your shifts. At $95 an hour for 32 hours and 50 weeks, the year pays $152,000.00. The salary to hourly calculator does the conversion without the BLS comparison.
Planning Loan Payments
A new pediatrician can test a first salary against a loan balance with the student loan payoff calculator. The result here is gross pay, so read the gross vs net income guide first.
Common Mistakes with Pediatrician Pay Data
1. Judging a Part-Time Salary Against Annual Wages
A $168,000 salary for 1,600 hours is about the 35th percentile by annual pay and about the 53rd by hourly pay. The hourly figure is the fair one.
2. Using the All-Physician Median
The median for all physicians and surgeons is $275,930. The pediatrician median is $210,040. Use the table for your own occupation.
3. Expecting a Subspecialty Figure
BLS has one table for general pediatricians. It has no pediatric cardiology, oncology or endocrinology table.
4. Comparing Practice-Owner Income with Wages
The survey leaves out self-employed pediatricians. An owner can estimate tax on practice profit with the self-employment tax calculator, but that profit is not a wage.
5. Trusting a Single State Mean
The top state mean has a 12.0% relative standard error. A small sample can move it a long way from year to year.
Accuracy and Limitations
The conversion is exact arithmetic. The percentile is an estimate, because BLS publishes only five points of the wage distribution.
What it calculates accurately
- Annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly and hourly gross pay from your own figures.
- The BLS percentile band your hourly pay falls in.
- The dollar and percent gap to the BLS national median.
- The yearly difference between two offers on the same schedule.
- The approximate percentile of your annual base pay against BLS annual wages.
What it does not account for
- Federal, state and local tax, or any payroll deduction.
- Your state, metro area, employer, experience or subspecialty.
- Benefits such as health insurance, retirement match and paid leave.
- Wages after May 2025. BLS updates the survey once a year.
- Income of self-employed pediatricians and practice partners. BLS does not survey them.
- Pediatric subspecialties. BLS reports one wage table for general pediatricians.
BLS wages are straight-time gross pay. They exclude overtime pay, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. Keep those in the other annual pay field so the comparison stays like for like.
How We Calculate Pediatrician Pay and Percentiles
Frequently Asked Questions About Pediatrician Salaries
How much do pediatricians make a year?
Employed general pediatricians had a median annual wage of $210,040 in May 2025, according to BLS. The mean was $212,110. The middle half earned between $138,290 and $273,700.
How much do pediatricians make an hour?
The median hourly wage for general pediatricians was $100.98 in May 2025. The 25th percentile was $66.49 and the 75th was $131.59.
Are pediatricians the lowest-paid physicians?
By BLS median wage, yes. General pediatricians had the lowest median, $210,040, of the 17 physician occupations BLS lists for May 2025. Family medicine physicians were next at $244,180.
What do the top 10 percent of pediatricians earn?
The highest 10 percent of employed general pediatricians earned more than $338,500 a year in May 2025, or $162.74 an hour.
Which state pays pediatricians the most?
Louisiana had the highest annual mean wage, $378,020, in May 2025. South Dakota, Montana, Alaska and Idaho were the next four.
Where do most pediatricians work?
Offices of physicians employ 25,140 of the 39,390 general pediatricians in the wage survey. General medical and surgical hospitals employ 9,490.
Is pediatrics a growing field?
Slowly. BLS projects 1 percent growth for general pediatricians from 2025 to 2035, from 42,200 to 42,900 jobs. BLS says the expected decline in the child population may limit demand.
Does the BLS figure include self-employed pediatricians?
No. The wage survey covers employees. It leaves out the self-employed and owners and partners of unincorporated firms.
How long does it take to become a pediatrician?
BLS says physicians typically need a bachelor degree, 4 years of medical school and 3 to 9 years of internship and residency, depending on specialty. All states require a licence.
Does the calculator estimate take-home pay?
No. Every figure is gross pay before tax and deductions. The tool applies no tax rate.
Is my pay information saved?
No. The calculation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. The Save button stores a result only on your own device.
Sources
- BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-1221 Pediatricians, General. Read 2026-10-02.)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and Surgeons (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Duties, training, median pay by specialty and 2025 to 2035 outlook. 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.)
- BLS OEWS frequently asked questions (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Who the survey covers, and the $239,200 reporting limit and its change in May 2025. Read 2026-10-02.)
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