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title: "Interventional Gastroenterologist"
description: "Gastroenterologist with advanced endoscopy training who treats bile duct, pancreas and digestive tract disease through scopes instead of open surgery."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/interventional-gastroenterologist"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Interventional Gastroenterologist

**Category:** Healthcare Practitioners and Technical · **SOC code:** 29-1216 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 29-1216.00

Gastroenterologist with advanced endoscopy training who treats bile duct, pancreas and digestive tract disease through scopes instead of open surgery.

Also advertised as: Advanced Endoscopist; Therapeutic Endoscopist; Advanced Endoscopy Gastroenterologist; Pancreaticobiliary Endoscopist.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $256,560 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $123.35/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $73,570 to $475,430, with the middle half between $124,470 and $374,850
- **Total US employment:** 67,150
- **Typical entry education:** Doctorate
- **Preparation required:** Considerable preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +4.0% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 1,900 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 37/100 — 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 67,150 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $73,570 |
| 25th | $124,470 |
| 50th (median) | $256,560 |
| 75th | $374,850 |
| 90th | $475,430 |
| Mean (average) | $267,200 |

### 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GA | $425,460 | $441,839 | 5,440 |
| RI | $379,490 | $371,031 | 300 |
| MN | $373,700 | $378,925 | 2,270 |
| WI | $367,160 | $390,201 | 1,450 |
| AK | $366,080 | $357,643 | 110 |
| SC | $359,500 | $383,471 | 1,260 |
| ID | $355,390 | $372,160 | 130 |
| WA | $340,010 | $317,728 | 1,100 |
| ND | $338,400 | $380,400 | 200 |
| UT | $331,720 | $335,532 | 210 |
| MS | $325,610 | $374,467 | 390 |
| GU | $324,920 | No BEA price parity | 40 |
| ME | $316,880 | $326,512 | 270 |
| IN | $314,390 | $336,862 | 2,380 |
| CA | $313,890 | $283,499 | 6,370 |

32 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 47 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/interventional-gastroenterologist/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/interventional-gastroenterologist.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 73,100 in the 2025–2035 base year to 76,000 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 2,900 jobs, or +4.0%. About as fast as average: 4.0% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 1,900 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 |
| --- | --- |
| Post-Doctoral Training | 53.0% |
| Doctoral Degree | 47.0% |

## What the work involves

- Perform ERCP to remove bile duct stones and place biliary and pancreatic stents
- Perform endoscopic ultrasound and fine-needle sampling of pancreatic and other tumors
- Remove large polyps and early cancers with endoscopic resection techniques
- Drain pancreatic fluid collections through the stomach wall
- Treat achalasia and other swallowing disorders endoscopically
- Control upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding
- See patients in clinic and coordinate care with surgeons and oncologists

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

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

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- 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
- Service Orientation — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Medicine and Dentistry — importance 4.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Biology — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Therapy and Counseling — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Psychology — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive 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 Investigative (I), Social (S), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| I — Investigative | 6.81 |
| S — Social | 6.08 |
| R — Realistic | 4.96 |
| C — Conventional | 3.63 |
| E — Enterprising | 2.10 |
| A — Artistic | 1.44 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 61.5 |
| ISTP | 61.4 |
| ISFJ | 60.2 |
| ISFP | 59.4 |
| INTJ | 57.1 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ, ISTP, ISFJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [General Internal Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-internal-medicine-physician) — median $256,560
- [Pediatric Surgeon](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatric-surgeon) — median $559,030
- [Cardiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiologist) — median $496,010
- [Obstetrician and Gynecologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/obstetrician-and-gynecologist) — median $292,910
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general) — median $210,040
- [Emergency Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medicine-physician) — median $335,550
- [Orthopedic Surgeon, Except Pediatric](https://nuecareer.com/careers/orthopedic-surgeon) — median $358,550
- [Neurologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/neurologist) — median $248,560
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician) — median $244,180
- [Urologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/urologist) — 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/
- **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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