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Physicians, all other salaries in New York

$359,000
national median A
$188,000
25th percentile
$508,000
75th percentile
Private group
setting

Metro areas in New York

Physicians, all other median by metro

New York, Private group
Binghamton: $427k$427kAlbany: $409k$409kUtica: $374k$374kSyracuse: $340k$340kNew York: $336k$336kGlens Falls: $297k$297kRochester: $279k$279kKiryas Joel: $261k$261kBuffalo: $182k$182kWatertown: $157k$157kBinghamtonAlbanyUticaSyracuseNew YorkGlens FallsRochesterKiryas JoelBuffaloWatertown
MetroP25MedianP75Grade
Binghamton $265,000$427,000 $485,000B
Albany $300,000$409,000 $449,000B
Utica $256,000$374,000 $461,000B
Syracuse $287,000$340,000 $411,000C
New York $182,000$336,000 $466,000A
Glens Falls $256,000$297,000 $436,000B
Rochester $168,000$279,000 $460,000B
Kiryas Joel $112,000$261,000 $403,000B
Buffalo $142,000$182,000 $313,000C
Watertown $85,000$157,000 $304,000B

How Physicians, all other pay has changed since 2011 →

How these figures are built

Four public sources, weighted by how much each can be trusted. Bureau of Labor Statistics wage surveys by metro area; public payroll disclosures, which list the exact pay of every physician employed by a state university or public hospital; Department of Labor H-1B filings, which record the salary actually offered for every visa hire; and Medicare payment data, which is revenue rather than pay and is used only where nothing better exists.

Public payroll is the anchor. It is the only source that is complete and exact for the people it covers. It reports academic and public-hospital pay, so private-practice figures are extrapolated from it through a per-specialty multiplier — and that multiplier is derived from data (H-1B offers at physician groups versus hospitals, payroll versus hospital offers) wherever there are enough rows, rather than assumed.

The BLS caps what it publishes at $239,200. Anything above prints as a symbol, so for most physician specialties the official "median" is a floor. Where the figure shown equals $239,200 with a C grade, that is what happened: real pay is higher and the other sources were too thin to say by how much.

Grades. A: two independent sources within 15%. B: one solid source, or two within 30%. C: a single source, a capped figure, or a Medicare-derived guess. Quote an A freely, a B with the range, and a C as a floor.

Built from 2025 BLS data, 8,302 H-1B filings.