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Primary care physician salary

Open primary care physician jobs post a median of $138.50 an hour, with the middle half paying $127–$165.25: about $288,100 a year full time. Measured from 25 jobs at 14 employers that state their pay, read from each employer's own job board.

$138.50
Median posted /hr
$127–$165
Middle half /hr
$288,100
A year, full time
estimate, 2,080 hours
$117.39
BLS median /hr
May 2025

The jobs themselves: Primary care physician jobs · A specialty of physician pay

What primary care physicians 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.

Posted hourly rates of 25 open jobs. The chart spans the 2nd to the 98th percentile; the lowest rate posted is $40, the highest $250.

Posted on open jobs

$127–$165.25/hr

Middle half of 20 employer rates (each employer's advertised range once), median $138.50. 1% of the 2,076 open primary care physician jobs state an hourly rate.

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Primary care physician pay by employer

What each employer posts for primary care physicians, 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
One Medical$135$120–$17110
Mary Washington Healthcare$131$127.40–$134.622
WhidbeyHealth$95.25$62.50–$1252
CHRISTUS Health$250$2501
SEARHC$195$1951
Essentia Health$180$1801
Overlake Medical Center$170.75$170.851
Endeavor Health$150$1501
MultiCare Health System$149$149.041
Mass General Brigham$142$141.75–$1421
MerrimackHealth$130$125–$1351
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center$127.75$112.77–$142.861
Gifford Health Care$123$120.92–$1251
UnitedHealth Group$50$40–$601

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.

Primary care physician 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.

662 open jobs from 99 employers state a yearly salary: a median of $274,400, the middle half $246,600 to $304,400, from $20,000 to $585,998 posted.

Primary care physician specialties

What each specialty posts. A specialty's jobs also count in the primary care physician figures above.

Best-paid open primary care physician jobs

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

Every open job: Primary care physician 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
Family Medicine Physicians (29-1215)$36.94 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)$78.09 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)$117.39 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)$160.71 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)$206.03 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)107,510 (source: BLS OEWS, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)

The posted median ($138.50) is $21.11 above the BLS median ($117.39 (source: BLS OEWS May 2025, Family Medicine Physicians, opens in a new tab)). Posted ranges run from a new hire's rate to an experienced one's, and their midpoint is counted here.

Primary care physician salary: common questions

How much does a primary care physician make an hour?

Open primary care physician jobs on CareJobs.Now that state an hourly rate post a median of $138.50, with the middle half between $127–$165.25 (25 jobs from 14 employers, each employer's advertised range counted once). Postings advertise a base rate, usually before shift differentials and bonuses. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics measured a median of $117.39/hr ($244,180 a year) for family medicine physicians in May 2025.

How much does a primary care physician make a year?

At the posted median of $138.50 an hour, full time (2,080 hours a year) comes to about $288,100, and the middle half to $264,200 to $343,700. That is arithmetic on the hourly rate, not a salary any job states. 662 open jobs state a yearly salary instead, a median of $274,400.

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: 25 of 2,076 open primary care physician jobs (1%) 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 each employer's advertised range counts once in the median, so no single employer 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 nightly from each employer's own careers site, published October 24, 2026
  2. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: Family Medicine Physicians (SOC 29-1215), published May 15, 2026
  3. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: General Internal Medicine Physicians (SOC 29-1216), published May 15, 2026
  4. BLS OEWS May 2025: Family Medicine Physicians by state, published May 15, 2026
  5. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: Family Medicine Physicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026
  6. BLS Employment Projections 2025-2035: General Internal Medicine Physicians (Occupational Outlook Handbook), published August 27, 2026

Cite this page

CareJobs.Now. (2026). Primary care physician salary. Data as of October 24, 2026. https://carejobs.now/salaries/primary-care-physician

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