Radiologist Salary Calculator

1. Choose annual salary or hourly wage. Enter your gross pay before tax.
2. Enter your paid hours per week and paid weeks per year. Leave 40 and 52 for a full-time, year-round job.
3. Read the pay conversion and the BLS comparison. Add a second offer to see both against the same table.

The tool does not estimate tax. For a plain pay conversion without the BLS comparison, use the salary calculator.

The radiologist salary calculator is a gross pay converter tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage table for radiologists. It shows your pay per year, month, pay period, week and hour, and the percentile band that pay falls in.

Radiologists are physicians who review and interpret x rays and other medical images, such as ultrasounds, to diagnose injuries or diseases. Diagnostic radiologists read images and recommend treatment or more testing. Interventional radiologists also treat patients with minimally invasive techniques.

The table is occupation code 29-1224. Two features stand out. First, the spread is wide: the 25th percentile is $216,800 and the 75th is $506,010. Second, the mean of $381,530 is $39,330 below the median. A long low tail, with a 10th percentile of $89,010, pulls the average down. BLS does not say which jobs make up that tail, and this page does not guess.

The BLS Reporting Limit

Older releases did not print radiologist wages as numbers. BLS showed them as equal to or greater than $115.00 per hour or $239,200 per year. BLS states that, beginning with the May 2025 estimates, it publishes specific figures for many of those percentiles. All five radiologist percentiles are dollar figures in the profile read on 2026-10-02. The tool is built for either case. Where BLS shows only a limit, the result reads at or above the BLS reporting limit, and no percentile is estimated above it.

The calculator converts your pay to one year, then finds its place between two published BLS percentiles. BLS publishes five percentile wages per occupation. The tool draws a straight line between the two nearest ones.

1. Annual pay: an hourly wage is multiplied by your hours and weeks. A salary is used as entered.
2. Hourly pay: annual pay is divided by hours per week times weeks per year.
3. Band: the tool finds the two BLS percentiles on each side of your pay.
4. Approximate percentile: for $450,000 the nearest points are the median ($420,860) and the 75th percentile ($506,010). 50 + (450,000 - 420,860) / (506,010 - 420,860) x 25 = 58.6, shown as about the 59th.
5. Gap: annual pay minus the BLS median of $420,860.

Pay below the 10th percentile or above the 90th gets no number, because BLS publishes no points beyond them. A wage that BLS shows only as at or above its reporting limit is never replaced with a guess. BLS annual wages equal the hourly wage times 2,080 hours. A part-time schedule lowers annual pay but not the hourly rate, so the tool also places your hourly rate. To convert a salary on other schedules, try the salary to hourly calculator.

A radiologist earns a $450,000 salary for an average 45-hour week and 48 worked weeks. A second group offers $495,000 for the same workload.

1. Hours per year: 45 x 48 = 2,160.
2. Hourly pay: 450,000 / 2,160 = $208.33.
3. Monthly pay: 450,000 / 12 = $37,500.00. Biweekly pay: $17,307.69.
4. Annual percentile: $450,000 sits between $420,860 and $506,010, at about the 59th percentile.
5. Hourly percentile: $208.33 sits between $202.34 and $243.27, at about the 54th percentile.
6. Gap to the median: 450,000 - 420,860 = +$29,140.00, or +6.9%.
7. Second offer: $495,000 is +$45,000.00 (+10.0%) and sits at about the 72nd percentile.

This radiologist works 2,160 hours a year, 80 more than the 2,080 behind BLS annual wages. The longer year makes the annual percentile look better than the hourly one. The second offer moves annual pay close to the 75th percentile of $506,010.

Industry

Offices of physicians employ 14,970 of the 26,770 radiologists in the survey, or 55.9 percent. General hospitals employ 6,060, medical and diagnostic laboratories 3,520, and colleges and universities 1,220.

Outpatient care centers top the list but employ only 310 radiologists, and the estimate carries a large error.

Partnership

The wage survey covers employees. It does not cover the self-employed or owners and partners of unincorporated firms. Partner distributions from a private group may be missing from the table.

Workload

BLS wages are straight-time pay and exclude premium pay. The Handbook notes that many physicians work long shifts, with irregular and overnight hours or call. Enter your real hours so the hourly figure is honest.

Sample Size

Radiology is a small occupation. The employment estimate has a 7.3 percent relative standard error and the mean wage 2.6 percent. Treat small gaps to the median with care.

Radiologists have the third-highest median among the physician occupations that BLS lists. All figures are May 2025 medians from the Occupational Outlook Handbook, read on 2026-10-02.

The radiologist median is 1.53 times the median for all physicians and surgeons.

Benchmarking an Employed Contract

Enter the base salary plus incentive pay you reliably receive. The band shows the contract against employed radiologists nationwide.

Converting an Hourly or Shift Rate

Enter the hourly rate with real hours and weeks. A high hourly rate over 36 hours and 46 weeks can still fall below the annual median.

Planning After Residency

Physicians finishing training can set a first salary against their loan balance with the student loan payoff calculator.

1. Using the Mean as the Typical Wage

For radiologists the mean, $381,530, is below the median, $420,860. Half of employed radiologists earn more than the median.

2. Quoting the Old $239,200 Figure

That number was a reporting limit, not a wage. The May 2025 table prints real percentiles above it.

3. Comparing Partner Income with Employee Wages

Partnership profit is not a wage in the survey. A partner comparing against this table compares unlike things.

4. Annualising a Shift Rate at 2,080 Hours

Contract and part-time work rarely fills 52 weeks of 40 hours. Enter the schedule you actually work.

5. Trusting the Top Industry Figure

The $263.92 outpatient mean rests on 310 jobs and a 15.9 percent error. It is a weak guide to a single offer.

Radiologists need a medical degree and a residency. Physicians typically complete a bachelor degree, then 4 years of medical school, then 3 to 9 years of internship and residency, depending on specialty. A subspecialty fellowship adds 1 to 3 years.

BLS projects radiologist employment to grow 3 percent from 2025 to 2035, from 28,700 jobs to 29,600. Employment of all physicians and surgeons is projected to grow 4 percent. The 28,700 count includes the self-employed and is larger than the 26,770 employee jobs in the wage table.

The pay conversion is exact arithmetic. The percentile is an estimate, because BLS publishes only five points of the wage distribution for radiologists. The result is an estimate from survey data. It is not a pay offer and not a prediction of your pay.

The BLS median annual wage for radiologists was $420,860 in May 2025. The mean was $381,530. The middle half earned between $216,800 and $506,010.

The BLS median hourly wage was $202.34 in May 2025. The 75th percentile was $243.27 and the 90th was $285.78.

Older releases could not estimate wages inside the top open-ended interval, so BLS printed a limit of $115.00 per hour or $239,200 per year. Beginning with May 2025, BLS publishes specific figures for many of those percentiles.

It means BLS published a floor instead of a number for that percentile. The tool then reports the band it can prove and gives no percentile above it. No figure is filled in.

The low end of the distribution is far below the middle. The 10th percentile is $89,010 and the 25th is $216,800, which pulls the average under the median of $420,860.

Offices of physicians employ 14,970 radiologists, more than half of the 26,770 in the wage survey. General medical and surgical hospitals employ 6,060.

Yes. Among the physician occupations BLS lists, only pediatric surgeons ($559,030) and cardiologists ($496,010) had a higher median in May 2025.

BLS projects 3 percent growth from 2025 to 2035, from 28,700 to 29,600 jobs. That equals the 3 percent projected for all occupations.

No. It uses the gross pay you enter and estimates no tax. BLS wage data exclude owners and partners of unincorporated firms.

It is approximate. The tool interpolates between five published points, and the radiologist estimates carry more sampling error than those of larger occupations.

• BLS OEWS Profiles, May 2025 (US Bureau of Labor Statistics data tool; select 29-1224 Radiologists. Read 2026-10-02.)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Physicians and Surgeons (US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Duties, education, pay and 2025 to 2035 outlook. Read 2026-10-02.)
• OEWS frequently asked questions (US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Who is covered, how wages are defined, the 2,080 hour rule and the reporting limit.)
• OEWS data tables, May 2025 release (US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Full national, state and area files.)