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Ophthalmologist salary

Open ophthalmologist jobs post a median of , with the middle half paying : about $419,400 a year full time. Measured from at that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

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What ophthalmologists 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 $201.64 an hour. Middle half $176.83 to $275. Tap a bar for its count.

Posted hourly rates of . The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $169.33, the highest $325.

Posted on open jobs

Middle half of (a job posted many times at one rate counted once), median . of the 250 open ophthalmologist jobs state an hourly rate.

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Ophthalmologist pay by employer

What each employer posts for ophthalmologists, 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
Southern California Permanente Medical Group$188.41$169.33–$245.4812
Weatherby Healthcare$275$225–$3259
Alameda Health System$220.64$220.641
NYU Langone Health$175$1751

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.

Ophthalmologist pay by state

States where at least 8 open jobs from 3 employers state an hourly rate, highest median first. Each opens the state's own page, with its towns and employers.

StateMedian postedMiddle halfBLS medianAt US pricesJobs
California$200$176.83–$201.64$192.38 (source: BLS OEWS, state medians)$180.64 (source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities by state (SARPP), all items, 2024: 110.72 (US = 100))14

Median and middle half of employers' rates in the state. BLS medians are for the occupation's main SOC code in the state (May 2025). At US prices: the posted median divided by the state's price level, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis's Regional Price Parities for 2024 (the US is 100), what the rate buys where prices are average.

Ophthalmologist 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.

57 open jobs from 21 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $400,000, the middle half $350,000 to $525,000, from $142,100 to $1,500,000 posted.

Best-paid open ophthalmologist jobs

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

Every open job: Ophthalmologist 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
Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric (29-1241)$48.16 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)$83.49 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)$144.27 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)$202.66 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)$235.44 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)8,950 (source: BLS OEWS, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)

The posted median () is above the BLS median ($144.27 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Ophthalmologist salary: common questions

How much does an ophthalmologist make an hour?

Open ophthalmologist jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $201.64, with the middle half between $176.83–$275 (23 jobs from 4 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 $144.27/hr ($300,080 a year) for ophthalmologists, except pediatric in May 2025.

How much does an ophthalmologist make a year?

At the posted median of $201.64 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $419,400, and the middle half to $367,800 to $572,000. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 57 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $400,000.

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: 23 of 250 open ophthalmologist jobs (9%) 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: Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric (SOC 29-1241), published 15 May 2026
  3. BLS OEWS May 2025: Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric by state, published 15 May 2026
  4. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published 27 Aug 2026

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CareJobs.Now. (2026). Ophthalmologist salary. Data as of 9 Nov 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/ophthalmologist

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