Neurologist Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly rate, whichever your neurology contract states.
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 neurologist paid $260,000 for 45 hours a week and 48 weeks. That is $120.37 an hour, about the 50th percentile by hourly pay and about the 53rd by annual pay.

The neurologist salary calculator is a gross pay converter tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) wage table for neurologists, occupation code 29-1217. It restates your pay per year, month, pay period, week and hour, then ranks it among employed neurologists nationwide.

Neurologists diagnose, manage and treat disorders and diseases of the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves, with a primarily nonsurgical focus. Examples include Alzheimer disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and epilepsy. Some work as pediatric neurologists.

The nonsurgical focus matters for pay data. Neurosurgeons are surgeons, and BLS counts surgeons in separate tables. A neurosurgeon who uses this table compares against the wrong occupation.

Neurology is one of the smallest physician occupations BLS lists, with 10,590 employee jobs. Unlike most physician tables, the mean of $267,630 is above the median of $248,560. A stretch of high wages pulls the average up: the 75th percentile is $357,990 and the 90th is $450,780.

BLS publishes one table for the specialty. It gives no separate wage for stroke, epilepsy, movement disorder or headache practice, 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 neurologists.

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 neurologists. 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 neurologist at a university hospital earns a $215,000 base salary. Clinic, inpatient consults and teaching average 45 hours a week over 48 worked weeks. Call pay adds $12,000 a year. A private group offers $260,000 for the same hours.

The current salary is $33,560 below the annual median. The hourly rate of $99.54 sits at about the 39th percentile. The private offer lifts hourly pay to $120.37, about the 50th percentile, and adds $45,000 a year before tax. It is still just above the hourly median of $119.50, because the year holds 2,160 hours.

Industry

Specialty hospitals pay neurologists a mean of $292,100, and colleges and universities pay $206,840. That is a gap of $85,260 between two employer types.

The industries BLS lists with the highest annual mean wage for neurologists. 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 210 neurologists.

Where Neurologists Work

Offices of physicians hold 61.8 percent of employee jobs and general hospitals 26.7 percent.

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

Hours and Call

BLS wages are straight-time pay and exclude on-call pay. The Occupational Outlook Handbook notes that many physicians work irregular hours or call. Call pay raises annual cash but not the wage BLS measures. Enter call pay in the other annual pay field. The salary to hourly calculator converts any salary and schedule.

Employee or Owner

The survey covers employees. Self-employed neurologists and partners of unincorporated practices are left out. The Occupational Outlook Handbook counts 11,400 neurologist jobs in 2025 with the self-employed included, against 10,590 employee jobs in the wage table.

Sample Size

Neurology has the largest wage error of the occupations on our physician pages. The mean wage has a 6.6 percent relative standard error and employment 9.9 percent. The offices of physicians mean carries an 11.8 percent error. Read small differences with caution.

Neurologists rank 15th by median among the 17 physician and surgeon occupations BLS lists. Only family medicine physicians and general pediatricians have a lower median.

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 neurologist median is $27,370 below the median for all physicians and surgeons. The mean tells a different story. At $267,630, the neurologist mean is above the family medicine mean of $255,820 and close to the general internal medicine mean of $267,200.

Employment is projected to grow faster than for physicians overall. BLS projects neurologist employment to grow 6 percent from 2025 to 2035, against 4 percent for all physicians and surgeons.

Comparing an Academic and a Private Offer

Enter one as base pay and the other as the second offer. Both are ranked against the same BLS table.

Converting an Hourly or Locum Rate

At $140.00 an hour for 36 hours and 46 weeks, annual pay is $231,840.00. The hourly rate is about the 60th percentile, while the annual figure is about the 45th.

Pricing a Call Change

Keep the salary and change the weekly hours. The hourly percentile shows what added call does to the rate per hour.

Planning After Fellowship

Set the monthly gross figure against a loan payment from the student loan payoff calculator. The result is before tax, so read the gross vs net income guide before you budget.

1. Using Neurosurgeon Figures

Neurosurgeons are not in code 29-1217. BLS describes neurologists as primarily nonsurgical and counts surgeons separately.

2. Quoting the Mean as Typical Pay

The mean, $267,630, is $19,070 above the median. Half of employed neurologists earn less than $248,560.

3. Expecting a Subspecialty Wage from BLS

BLS has one neurologist table. It publishes no stroke, epilepsy or neurocritical care wage, and this page adds none.

4. Adding Call Pay to Base Pay

BLS excludes on-call pay. Folding it into base pay overstates your percentile.

5. Over-Reading a Small Gap

With a 6.6 percent error on the mean wage, a gap of a few thousand dollars to the median is not meaningful.

6. Comparing a 2,160-Hour Salary with a 2,080-Hour Table

BLS annual wages assume 2,080 hours. The verdict uses hourly pay so that long weeks are judged fairly.

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 neurologists was $248,560 in May 2025. The mean was $267,630. The middle half earned between $155,990 and $357,990.

The BLS median hourly wage was $119.50 in May 2025. The 25th percentile was $75.00 and the 75th was $172.11.

The 90th percentile annual wage was $450,780 in May 2025, or $216.72 an hour. BLS publishes no figure above the 90th percentile.

By median, yes. Neurologists rank 15th of the 17 physician and surgeon occupations BLS lists. Their median is $27,370 below the median for all physicians and surgeons.

No. Neurosurgeons operate and are counted with surgeons. Code 29-1217 covers neurologists, whom BLS describes as primarily nonsurgical. Use a surgeon table for neurosurgery pay.

Among industries with a dollar figure, specialty hospitals lead at a mean of $292,100. BLS shows outpatient care centers only as at or above $239,200.

Offices of physicians employ 6,540 of the 10,590 neurologists in the wage survey. General hospitals employ 2,830 and colleges and universities 650.

BLS projects 6 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, from 11,400 to 12,100 jobs. The projected rate for all physicians and surgeons is 4 percent.

Less than for larger occupations. The mean wage has a 6.6 percent relative standard error and the employment estimate 9.9 percent, so small differences are within sampling error.

Only those paid as employees. The survey excludes the self-employed and owners or partners of unincorporated firms.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-1217 Neurologists. 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.)