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title: "Family Medicine Physician"
description: "Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further…"
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# Family Medicine Physician

**Category:** Healthcare Practitioners and Technical · **SOC code:** 29-1215 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 29-1215.00

Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.

Also advertised as: Board Certified Family Physician; Family Medicine Physician; Family Physician; Family Practice Medical Doctor (FP MD); Family Practice Physician (FP Physician); Family Practitioner; Medical Doctor (MD); Medical Staff Physician.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $244,180 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $117.39/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $76,830 to $428,550, with the middle half between $162,420 and $334,270
- **Total US employment:** 107,510
- **Typical entry education:** Doctorate
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.3% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 2,900 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 32/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 107,510 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $76,830 |
| 25th | $162,420 |
| 50th (median) | $244,180 |
| 75th | $334,270 |
| 90th | $428,550 |
| Mean (average) | $255,820 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RI | $467,160 | $456,746 | 210 |
| OK | $361,350 | $411,359 | 2,170 |
| ID | $347,160 | $363,541 | 690 |
| MT | $330,760 | $349,474 | 460 |
| AK | $323,490 | $316,035 | 760 |
| PA | $306,030 | $313,645 | 4,190 |
| UT | $297,510 | $300,929 | 550 |
| OR | $293,240 | $283,705 | 1,490 |
| WA | $292,900 | $273,705 | 1,270 |
| AZ | $292,760 | $290,791 | 2,620 |
| NJ | $292,170 | $268,526 | 3,050 |
| WI | $290,640 | $308,879 | 1,470 |
| MD | $285,730 | $272,230 | 1,050 |
| ND | $280,100 | $314,864 | 260 |
| MN | $280,030 | $283,946 | 1,820 |

37 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 52 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/family-medicine-physician.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 114,300 in the 2025–2035 base year to 118,000 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 3,700 jobs, or +3.3%. About as fast as average: 3.3% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 2,900 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Doctoral or professional degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Internship/residency.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Doctoral Degree | 59.1% |
| Post-Doctoral Training | 28.9% |
| Master's Degree | 9.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 2.3% |
| Some College Courses | 0.3% |

## What the work involves

- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
- Refer patients to medical specialists or other practitioners when necessary.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
- Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Coordinate work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other health care providers.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Critical Thinking — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Science — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 5.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Therapy and Counseling — importance 4.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Psychology — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 5.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Social (S), Investigative (I), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| S — Social | 6.21 |
| I — Investigative | 6.08 |
| C — Conventional | 3.95 |
| R — Realistic | 3.75 |
| E — Enterprising | 2.34 |
| A — Artistic | 1.45 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISFJ | 62.3 |
| ISTJ | 57.1 |
| ISFP | 55.9 |
| INFJ | 53.7 |
| ESFJ | 53.3 |

Best-fitting types: ISFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Emergency Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medicine-physician) — median $335,550
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general) — median $210,040
- [General Internal Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-internal-medicine-physician) — median $256,560
- [Obstetrician and Gynecologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/obstetrician-and-gynecologist) — median $292,910
- [Pediatric Surgeon](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatric-surgeon) — median $559,030
- [Physician Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physician-assistant) — median $135,880
- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist) — median $281,870
- [Cardiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiologist) — median $496,010
- [Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/advanced-practice-psychiatric-nurse) — median $97,550
- [Hospitalist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/hospitalist) — median $265,930

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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