Pulmonology · total compensation · 2025 income
Pulmonology physician compensation
Doximity 2026 ↗ · 2025 income
$441,472
nearly 23,000 full-time physicians (≥40 h/wk), self-reported. Prior report $425,700 · +3.7%
Medscape 2026 ↗ · 2025 income
$395,000
n=5,916, surveyed September–December 2025, self-reported. Republished 2024 data No fresh collection for this specialty.
Midpoint · our calculation
$418,236
The mean of the two figures, which diverge by 11.1%. Published only because both report the same specialty for the same year. Not a survey result.
Federal wage survey · catch-all, not a benchmark
What the survey does have
The survey has no occupation of its own for pulmonology; by the code’s definition it falls under Physicians, All Other (29-1229), “all physicians not listed separately.” That occupation’s 2025 median is $265,930 across 342,720 employed physicians of every unlisted specialty together, so it is context, not a Pulmonology figure. The Offer Check is not run against it.
- 10th
- $69,170
- 25th
- $102,930
- Median
- $265,930
- Mean
- $262,040
- 75th
- $378,770
- 90th
- $452,360
BLS OEWS May 2025, SOC 29-1229. Public domain.
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 Pulmonology 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 · republished 2024 survey data
- Doximity 2025
- 2025 report · 2024 income · used for the year-over-year change
- Federal wage benchmark
- BLS OEWS May 2025 · SOC 29-1229 (Physicians, All Other) · a catch-all occupation; context, not a benchmark · 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.