Doctor Salaries is an independent reference site for people weighing a career in medicine: premed and medical students, residents comparing specialties, and physicians, PAs, optometrists and chiropractors checking an offer. We publish official BLS pay by specialty, state and metro, and the training years and loan math that come before the first attending paycheck.
What we do
- Official wage data by specialty, state and metro. Every salary is a BLS OEWS May 2025 estimate (mean, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentile) for 17 physician and surgeon occupations plus physician assistants, optometrists, chiropractors and podiatrists, for the nation, every state and each metro area BLS publishes.
- Honest about the top-code. Where BLS prints only “$239,200 or more”, we say so instead of inventing a number.
- Calculators you can check. The salary, take-home, comparison, school-cost, loan-repayment and payback tools show their inputs and formulas; the 2026 tax and loan math is covered by automated tests.
- Residency debt, year by year. Our signature calculator follows a medical school loan through three to seven years of residency at the 2026–27 federal rate, using ACGME program lengths and AAMC resident stipends, and shows the payment on the salary of the specialty you train for.
- Nothing to sell you. We do not recruit for employers, place residents, refer you to lenders or refinancing companies, or take payment from schools, hospitals or staffing firms for a listing.
Who we are
Doctor Salaries is written and maintained by a small independent editorial team based in Türkiye. We are not physicians or financial advisers; every figure is traced to a published primary source, and each page lists its sources with dates. We are not affiliated with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, the AAMC, NRMP, ACGME, the American Board of Radiology, PAEA, the U.S. Department of Education, any medical, PA, optometry, chiropractic or podiatry school, hospital, employer, recruiter or lender.
How the site is funded
The site is free and is supported by display advertising from Google AdSense. Advertisers, schools and employers have no say over which specialties we cover, which numbers we show or how we describe them, and ads are kept apart from tables and calculators.
How we pick and check sources is in our editorial policy; what the numbers can and cannot tell you is in the disclaimer; what the calculators keep is in the privacy policy. Found a figure that looks wrong? Use the contact page.