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General surgeon salary

Open general surgeon jobs post a median of , with the middle half paying : about $364,000 a year full time. Measured from at that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

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What general surgeons are paid

Each bar counts the open jobs posting an hourly rate in its step of pay (a range at its midpoint). The middle half of employers' rates is in the darker color.

Median $175 an hour. Middle half $175 to $175. Tap a bar for its count.

Posted hourly rates of . The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $80, the highest $375.

Posted on open jobs

Middle half of (a job posted many times at one rate counted once), median . of the 508 open general surgeon jobs state an hourly rate.

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General surgeon pay by employer

What each employer posts for general surgeons, the employers with the most jobs stating pay first. An employer with at least 5 such jobs has a page of its own with every range it posts.

EmployerMedian postedPosted rangeJobs stating pay
Weatherby Healthcare$175$80–$37551
Trinity Health$265.80$265.801
Legacy Health$252.50$230–$2751
Washington Emergency Care Physicians$250$2501
Beth Israel Lahey Health$150$100–$2001
Copley Hospital$148.50$144–$1531

Median of each employer's own jobs (a range at its midpoint), and the lowest and highest rate it posts. Jobs stating pay link to the employer's open jobs.

General surgeon jobs that state a yearly salary

Some jobs state a salary for the year instead of an hourly rate. They are measured on their own here, never converted.

259 open jobs from 27 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $275,000, the middle half $275,000 to $300,000, from $200,000 to $1,100,000 posted.

Best-paid open general surgeon jobs

The open jobs posting the highest hourly rates tonight, at most two from one employer.

Every open job: General surgeon jobs

What BLS measures

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys what people employed in the occupation earn, at every level of experience. A posting advertises what a new hire is offered, so the two measure different things.

Hourly wages, BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, national. Each figure opens its BLS page.
BLS occupation10th pct25th pctMedian75th pct90th pctEmployed
Surgeons, All Other (29-1249)$38.62 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)$64.83 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)$199.04 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)$245.87 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)$315.06 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)25,140 (source: BLS OEWS, Surgeons, All Other)

The posted median () is below the BLS median ($199.04 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Surgeons, All Other)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

General surgeon salary: common questions

How much does a general surgeon make an hour?

Open general surgeon jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $175, with the middle half between $175 (56 jobs from 6 employers, a job posted many times at one rate counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $199.04/hr ($414,010 a year) for surgeons, all other in May 2025.

How much does a general surgeon make a year?

At the posted median of $175 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $364,000, and the middle half to $364,000 to $364,000. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 259 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $275,000.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay CareJobs.Now's open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own job board: 56 of 508 open general surgeon jobs (11%) state an hourly rate. No pay is estimated for a job that states none, "up to" ceilings and weekly travel rates are left out, and a job posted many times at one rate counts once in the median, so no single employer's posting volume sets it.

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Sources and method

Only pay a job states is used: a plain hourly or yearly figure or range in US dollars, read from the job's own posting. A range counts at its midpoint. In the median and the middle half each employer's advertised range counts once, so an employer posting one range in many towns does not set the figure; an employer's own figures count its jobs one by one. "Up to" ceilings, weekly travel rates and rates under a third or over three times the occupation's median are left out. The yearly estimate is the hourly rate times 2,080 hours (40 a week). A job counts under its occupation and every occupation above it, and under every state it is open in. A page exists while at least 8 jobs from 3 employers state a rate. BLS figures are as published.
  1. CareJobs.Now job board: the pay open jobs state, read every night from each employer's own careers site, published 9 Nov 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Surgeons, All Other (SOC 29-1249), published 15 May 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Surgeons, All Other by state, published 15 May 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Surgeons, All Other (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published 27 Aug 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). General surgeon salary. Data as of 9 Nov 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/general-surgeon

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