Dermatologist Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly rate. Then enter the clinic hours you are actually paid for.
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 a dermatologist paid $340,000 for a 32-hour week over 48 weeks. That is $221.35 an hour, about the 76th percentile by hourly pay. The annual figure alone reads about the 52nd.

The dermatologist salary calculator is a gross pay converter tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) wage table for dermatologists, occupation code 29-1213. It turns one pay figure into annual, monthly, biweekly, weekly and hourly amounts, and it places that pay among employed dermatologists nationwide.

Dermatologists diagnose and treat diseases relating to the skin, hair and nails. They treat patients who may have melanoma or other skin cancers, and they may offer both medical and surgical dermatology services.

The wage table has an unusual shape. The 25th percentile is $139,990 and the median is $328,730, a jump of $188,740. The step from the 10th percentile to the 25th is only $37,180. A quarter of employed dermatologists earn less than $67.30 an hour. BLS does not say which jobs those are, and this page does not guess.

BLS publishes one table for the whole specialty. It gives no separate wage for surgical, cosmetic or pediatric dermatology, so this page has no practice-focus selector and applies no premium for any of them.

The table covers 11,370 employee jobs. It is a tool for employed dermatologists checking an offer. It is not a pay quote.

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

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 dermatologists. 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.

A dermatologist earns a $310,000 base salary for 36 clinic hours a week over 47 worked weeks. A year-end bonus adds $25,000. A second practice offers $365,000 for the same schedule.

Here the short year works the other way. The salary is below the annual median of $328,730, so the annual percentile reads 48th. The year holds only 1,692 hours, 388 fewer than the 2,080 behind BLS annual wages, so the hourly rate of $183.22 is above the hourly median and reads 61st. The second offer moves hourly pay to $215.72, about the 74th percentile.

Industry

Offices of physicians dominate the occupation, with 10,170 of 11,370 employee jobs, or 89.4 percent. Their mean wage of $326,720 is close to the national mean of $323,530 for that reason.

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

BLS shows the outpatient care center mean only as at or above $239,200. That industry employs 170 dermatologists. Colleges and universities pay a mean of $181,060, which is $142,470 below the national mean.

Where Dermatologists Work

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

Clinic Hours

A shorter week lowers annual pay but not the hourly rate. At $340,000, a 1,536-hour year is $221.35 an hour and a 2,080-hour year is $163.46. The salary to hourly calculator runs the same conversion for any schedule.

Production Pay

BLS wages include incentive pay and production bonuses. Enter them as part of base pay. Year-end bonuses and profit sharing are excluded, so put those in the other annual pay field.

Employee or Owner

The survey leaves out self-employed dermatologists and owners or partners of unincorporated practices. Owner income is not in the table. Owners can size one tax cost with the self-employment tax calculator.

Sample Size

The employment estimate has a 9.4 percent relative standard error and the mean wage 4.2 percent. Small gaps to the median are within the noise.

Dermatologists rank eighth by median among the 17 physician and surgeon occupations BLS lists. Their median is $52,800 above the median for all physicians and surgeons.

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 upper half of the table is where dermatology stands out. The 90th percentile of $578,560 is above the anesthesiologist 90th percentile of $557,130, although the dermatologist median is $62,760 lower. The lower half is weaker. The dermatologist 25th percentile of $139,990 is below the family medicine 25th percentile of $162,420.

Outlook also differs. BLS projects dermatologist employment to grow 7 percent from 2025 to 2035, against 4 percent for all physicians and surgeons.

Checking an Employed Offer

Enter the guaranteed base and the clinic hours in the contract. The band shows the offer against employed dermatologists nationwide.

Weighing a Four-Day Week

Enter the lower salary with the lower hours. Equal hourly percentiles mean the two schedules pay the same rate.

Converting an Hourly Rate

At $150.00 an hour for 40 hours and 48 weeks, annual pay is $288,000.00. That rate is about the 48th percentile, just under the median of $158.04.

Planning a Budget

The result is gross pay before tax. Read the gross vs net income guide before you budget, and use the salary calculator for a plain conversion without the BLS comparison.

1. Judging a Part-Time Salary by the Annual Table

BLS annual wages assume 2,080 hours. A dermatologist on 1,536 hours looks underpaid on the annual row and well paid on the hourly row. The verdict uses the hourly row.

2. Expecting a Mohs or Cosmetic Figure from BLS

BLS has one dermatologist table. It publishes no wage by practice focus, and this page adds none.

3. Trusting the Interpolated Percentile Between the 25th and 50th

The two points are $188,740 apart. A straight line across a gap that wide is a rough guide, so treat a result in that band as approximate.

4. Counting Owner Profit as Salary

Practice profit is not a wage in the survey. Enter employed base pay only.

5. Reading the Reporting Limit as a Number

The outpatient care center row shows a floor of $239,200, not a mean. The true figure is higher by an unknown amount.

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 dermatologists was $328,730 in May 2025. The mean was $323,530. The middle half earned between $139,990 and $452,450.

The BLS median hourly wage was $158.04 in May 2025. The 75th percentile was $217.52 and the 90th was $278.15.

The 90th percentile annual wage was $578,560 in May 2025. BLS publishes no figure above the 90th percentile, so the tool gives a band but no percentile number above it.

BLS does not explain it. The table shows $139,990 at the 25th percentile and $328,730 at the median. The survey covers all employee jobs in the code and does not separate them by hours or role.

Offices of physicians employ 10,170 of the 11,370 dermatologists in the wage survey, or 89.4 percent. General hospitals employ 650.

More than most. The dermatologist median is $52,800 above the median for all physicians and surgeons, and it ranks eighth of the 17 occupations BLS lists.

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

Yes. BLS projects 7 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, from 12,200 to 13,000 jobs. Only psychiatrists match that rate among the physician occupations BLS lists.

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

No. It shows gross pay only and estimates no tax. Take-home pay depends on filing status, state and deductions.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-1213 Dermatologists. 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.)