Oncologist Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly rate, then enter your base pay. Keep 40 hours and 52 weeks to compare a salary with the BLS annual wage.
2. Add your own production incentive, call pay and other bonus figures from your contract. Leave any of them blank.
3. Read your annual gross pay, the pay-period amounts and where your rate sits in the BLS wage table for the BLS group physicians, all other.

What each result tells you:

The first preset is an example, not a typical salary. It shows an oncologist paid $400,000 a year. That is $192.31 an hour over 2,080 hours, about the 79th percentile for the BLS group physicians, all other. BLS publishes no oncologist-only wage figure.

An oncologist salary is the gross pay a cancer physician earns in a year, before tax. A contract can have several parts: a base salary, a production incentive, call pay and one-time bonuses. This tool adds the parts you enter.

BLS does not survey oncologists as a separate occupation. Its classification puts them in code 29-1229, physicians, all other. That code holds all physicians not listed separately. BLS names three examples: gastroenterologist, oncologist and pulmonologist. So the wage table on this page mixes many specialties.

Board certification in medical oncology comes from the American Board of Internal Medicine. The board requires prior certification in internal medicine, accredited fellowship training and a pass in its medical oncology examination. The handbook notes that board certification is not required to practise, but it may improve job prospects.

All facts were read on 2026-10-02. The tool is for fellows and attending physicians checking a contract. It is not a pay quote from any employer.

The calculator turns your pay into a yearly total, then places your straight-time rate in the BLS wage distribution for the BLS group physicians, all other.

1. Convert. An hourly rate is multiplied by regular hours and weeks. A salary is divided by them to get pay per hour.
2. Add the production incentive. Incentive units x pay per unit. BLS counts production bonuses as wages, so this amount joins the comparison.
3. Add call pay. Paid call shifts x pay per shift. The tool treats it as premium pay and leaves it out of the comparison.
4. Add other bonuses. Sign-on, retention and quality bonuses are nonproduction bonuses. BLS excludes them.
5. Find the band. Base pay plus production incentive, per hour, is checked against the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile wages.
6. Interpolate. W1 and W2 are the two BLS wages around your rate. P1 and P2 are their percentiles.
7. Measure the gap. Your rate minus the median, then divided by the median.

The table below is the BLS wage table the tool uses. It covers every physician in the all-other group, not oncologists alone.

Source: BLS OEWS, national estimates, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02. This table covers the whole occupation group. BLS publishes no separate wage figure for oncologists.

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.

An oncologist has a base salary of $350,000. Her contract pays $50 for each work unit above a threshold, and she expects 1,500 paid units. She takes 40 call shifts at $1,000 each and has a $20,000 retention bonus. These are example figures, not typical terms. A second employer offers a flat $400,000.

Her package totals $485,000.00. The flat offer is $50,000.00 above her base salary but $85,000.00 below her full package. Without the incentive her base alone sits at about the 69th percentile of the group. Both percentiles rank her among all physicians in the all-other group, not among oncologists.

How Much of the Package Is Incentive

A production incentive pays a set amount per unit of work. It moves with patient volume. At $50 a unit, 500 more paid units add $25,000 a year. Enter the units you expect, not the best case.

Call Pay

The handbook says many physicians work long shifts, with irregular and overnight hours or time on call. Some contracts pay a stipend per call shift and some pay nothing extra. The tool multiplies your shifts by your stipend.

Hours Behind the Salary

BLS annual wages equal the hourly wage times 2,080 hours. A $400,000 salary is $192.31 an hour at 40 hours a week. At 55 hours a week it is $139.86. Keep 40 hours to compare a salary with the BLS annual figures. Enter real hours to see your pay per hour worked. The salary to hourly calculator does that conversion alone.

A Mixed Group with a Wide Range

The 25th percentile for this group is $49.48 an hour and the median is $127.85. That gap of $78.37 an hour is wide. The straight-line percentile is weakest inside it.

Employee or Contractor

BLS surveys employees only. It leaves out the self-employed and partners in unincorporated firms. A physician paid as an independent contractor also owes self-employment tax. The self-employment tax calculator estimates that tax.

BLS data can compare the all-other physician group with physicians as a whole, but not oncologists with other specialties. The median for the all-other group is $265,930. The Occupational Outlook Handbook gives $275,930 for all physicians and surgeons in May 2025.

Where the Group Works

The five industries that employ the most physicians, all other. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

Where the Group Mean Is Highest

The five industries with the highest annual mean wage for physicians, all other. Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025. Read on 2026-10-02.

Offices of physicians appear in both tables. They hold 150,920 jobs and pay a mean of $303,690, which is $41,650 above the national mean of $262,040.

Base Salary vs Total Package

Two offers with the same base can differ by tens of thousands of dollars once incentive and call pay are added. Compare the annual gross pay line for each offer, not only the base.

Reading a First Contract After Fellowship

Enter the base salary, then the incentive and call terms. The result shows the full package and how much of it is guaranteed.

Comparing a Flat Offer with an Incentive Offer

Put the incentive offer in the main fields and the flat salary in the second offer field. Read the yearly difference against your extras.

Testing a Lower Volume Year

Cut the incentive units by a quarter and read the new total. The base salary row does not move, so you see the downside clearly.

Planning Cash Flow

The result is gross pay before tax. The gross vs net income guide explains the difference. The salary calculator converts a single pay figure without the BLS table.

1. Reading the BLS Figure as an Oncologist Salary

The median of $265,930 covers 342,720 physicians in many specialties. BLS does not split out oncologists.

2. Putting a Sign-On Bonus into Base Pay

A one-time bonus is not part of the wage. Enter it as other annual bonus so the percentile stays honest.

3. Counting the Best-Case Incentive

An incentive is paid on units above a threshold. Enter only the units you expect to be paid for.

4. Changing Hours and Then Reading the Annual Table

The BLS annual wage assumes 2,080 hours. With 55 hours entered, compare the hourly row instead.

5. Trusting Survey Figures the Tool Cannot Show

The old tool on this page quoted subspecialty medians from a paid industry survey and multiplied them by fixed factors. Those figures cannot be checked here, so this page uses none of them.

The conversion is exact arithmetic. The percentile is an estimate, because BLS publishes only five points of the wage distribution and the table covers a broader group than oncologists.

BLS wages are straight-time gross pay. They exclude overtime pay, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. They include incentive pay and production bonuses. This tool follows that split: production incentive is compared, call pay and other bonuses are not.

BLS does not publish a wage for oncologists alone. It counts them in the group physicians, all other. That group had a median wage of $265,930 a year, or $127.85 an hour, in May 2025.

BLS surveys pay by occupation code, and oncologists have no code of their own. The 2018 classification lists an oncologist as an example of code 29-1229, which holds all physicians not listed separately.

Physicians at the 90th percentile of the all-other group earned $452,360 a year in May 2025. Those at the 75th percentile earned $378,770. The mean was $262,040.

Yes. BLS counts incentive pay and production bonuses as wages. It excludes nonproduction bonuses, overtime pay and shift differentials. This tool compares base salary plus production incentive for that reason.

No. This tool treats call pay as premium pay and keeps it out of the percentile. It still adds your call pay to annual gross pay.

Divide the salary by paid hours in the year. A $400,000 salary over 2,080 hours is $192.31 an hour. Over 55 hours a week for 52 weeks it is $139.86.

BLS lists a gynecological oncologist as an example under code 29-1218, obstetricians and gynecologists. That is a different wage table from the one on this page.

BLS says physicians need a bachelor degree, a 4-year medical degree and 3 to 9 years of residency. A subspecialty adds a fellowship of 1 to 3 years.

Offices of physicians employ 150,920 of the 342,720 physicians in the all-other group. General medical and surgical hospitals employ 107,730.

No. The calculation runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server. The Save button stores a result only on your own device.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 national estimates (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Select 29-1229 Physicians, All Other. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS 2018 Standard Occupational Classification definitions (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Lists an oncologist as an example of 29-1229, physicians not listed separately. Read 2026-10-02.)
• BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and Surgeons (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Training, schedules, median pay 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.)
• ABIM: Medical Oncology certification policies (American Board of Internal Medicine. Requirements for certification in medical oncology. Read 2026-10-02.)