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Wage figures are survey estimates
Every salary in our tables and calculators is a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) estimate for May 2025. Percentiles come from O*NET OnLine (U.S. Department of Labor), which republishes the BLS figures; means and job counts come from the BLS public data API. The survey covers wage and salary employees. It leaves out self-employed physicians and practice owners, partnership distributions, most bonuses and benefits, and a single state or metro figure can carry a large sampling error.
Specialties BLS does not report
BLS has no separate code for some specialties, such as neurosurgery, plastic surgery or child psychiatry. Where a page discusses one of them, it says which BLS group the specialty falls in. A private survey figure (the Doximity 2026 Physician Compensation Report) is quoted only for specialties BLS does not report (and, for a like-for-like comparison, the same survey's figure for the specialty they are compared with), labeled as a survey with its method, and never used in a BLS table or as a calculator's published pay level.
The $239,200 top-code
Where BLS still prints “equal to or greater than $115.00 per hour or $239,200 per year”, we show “≥ $239,200”. It is a floor, not an estimate, and our calculators label any take-home figure built on it as a minimum.
Take-home pay is an approximation
Take-home results apply the IRS 2026 federal brackets and standard deduction, Social Security (6.2% up to the 2026 wage base), Medicare and the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax to the pay shown, plus the state rate you type in. They ignore credits, itemized deductions, local taxes, insurance premiums, retirement plan rules beyond the percentage you enter, and how your employer actually withholds.
School cost and loan math
The school-cost, loan-repayment and payback calculators do arithmetic on the numbers you enter. They do not model income-driven repayment, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, refinancing, scholarships with service obligations or your admission chances. Federal loan limits and rates change; confirm them with your school's financial aid office and studentaid.gov.
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