Internal Medicine · total compensation · 2025 income
Internal Medicine physician compensation
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Where does your offer sit?
Your base salary against the federal wage survey for Internal Medicine. Nothing stored — your numbers stay in the address bar.
Productivity terms (optional)
Example · the survey median, until you type your offer
The 2025 federal survey median for Internal Medicine is $256,560; the mean is $267,200. Half of employed physicians in this occupation earn less than the median, a quarter earn less than $124,470, and a quarter earn more than $374,850. Type your base above and this line becomes your offer’s position.
The survey measures total wages of employed physicians in this occupation — base plus most cash compensation — so a base-only offer naturally reads low against it. National figures, not adjusted for region or practice type.
- 10th
- $73,570
- 25th
- $124,470
- Median
- $256,560
- Mean
- $267,200
- 75th
- $374,850
- 90th
- $475,430
Source: BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 29-1216 · 67,150 employed nationally. Public domain. Percentiles verified against BLS 2026-09-11.
Education, not advice. This reads your numbers against public data; it does not tell you what to accept or negotiate. Compensation decisions are yours, ideally with your own attorney or advisor for the contract itself.
Doximity 2026 ↗ · 2025 income
$339,274
nearly 23,000 full-time physicians (≥40 h/wk), self-reported. Prior report $326,116 · +4.0%
Midpoint · our calculation
$323,137
The mean of the two figures, which diverge by 10%. Published only because both report the same specialty for the same year. Not a survey result.
What moves the number
From the Doximity 2026 Physician Compensation Report, every specialty pooled. How setting, metro and year move physician pay in general — none of these is a Internal Medicine figure.
Average compensation by practice setting · all specialties · 2025 income
- Single-specialty group$480,961
- Multi-specialty group$477,033
- Hospital$454,440
- Health system / IDN / ACO$451,233
- Solo practice$440,424
- HMO$419,170
- Industry$413,196
- Academic$389,591
- Hospital / system ambulatory$382,916
- Urgent care center$326,447
- Government$311,502
Year over year
+2.0%
Average physician compensation increased 2% from 2024 to 2025, continuing a period of moderating growth. The prior year was +3.7%.
Gender pay gap
26% · $122,276
The gender pay gap for physicians remained at 26% in 2025, the same percentage it was in 2024 and up from a gap of 23% in 2023.
Highest-paying metros
- 1. Oklahoma City, OK$495,617
- 2. Sacramento, CA$484,817
- 3. Rochester, MN$478,861
- 4. Los Angeles, CA$469,047
- 5. Louisville, KY$465,924
Doximity adjusts metro comparisons with the 2024 regional price parities of metro areas published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Source: Doximity 2026 Physician Compensation Report. Figures reproduced as published.
Data on this page
- Headline figure
- Midpoint of Doximity 2026 and Medscape 2026 · 2025 income · our arithmetic on two published averages
- Survey figures measure
- self-reported total compensation (base plus productivity, quality and other cash pay)
- Doximity 2026
- 2026 report · 2025 income · transcribed 2026-09-07 · last verified 2026-09-07
- Medscape 2026
- 2026 report · 2025 income · transcribed 2026-09-07 · last verified 2026-09-07
- Doximity 2025
- 2025 report · 2024 income · used for the year-over-year change
- Federal wage benchmark
- BLS OEWS May 2025 · SOC 29-1216 (Internal Medicine) · the specialty’s own occupation code · measures wages, not total compensation · top-coded percentiles: none in this release · last verified 2026-09-11
- Physician-contributed benchmark
- Not enough verified data to display — 30 more needed (0 of 30); never blended with the surveys or the federal row
How this number is built
The two surveys, as each describes itself, and the rules this page adds. Nothing here is estimated: a gap in a source is shown as a gap.
| Doximity 2026 ↗ | Medscape 2026 ↗ | |
|---|---|---|
| Income year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Survey window | January–December 2025 | September–December 2025 |
| Respondents | nearly 23,000 in 2025; over 250,000 completed surveys over the last seven years | 5,916 physicians |
| Who counts | full-time U.S. physicians who practice at least 40 hours per week | U.S. physicians, self-reported |
| What is counted | Self-reported annual compensation. The report does not define the term further in its methodology. | Self-reported total annual compensation for the prior year. |
| Geography | 60 of the top-represented metropolitan statistical areas; metro comparisons adjusted with the 2024 regional price parities of metro areas published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. | National |
| Adjustments | multivariate regression with controls for medical specialty, metro area, and gender, plus years in practice and self-reported average hours worked per week | None stated |
The rules this page adds
- Every figure is reproduced as its source published it. Nothing is interpolated, rounded, or filled in.
- The midpoint is our arithmetic: the mean of the two figures, only where both cover the same specialty and the same income year, and only when they sit within 25% of each other. Past that, the disagreement is the finding and no midpoint is shown.
- The year-over-year change is our arithmetic from Doximity’s two tables (Doximity 2026 against Doximity 2025, which reported 2024 income). It matches the growth list Doximity publishes for its top ten.
- Physician-contributed figures follow Doximity’s sampling rule and a stricter display rule: full-time physicians only, NPI-verified, and no number at all for a specialty × geography × setting cell with fewer than 30 contributors. Percentiles are never computed below that floor.