Average Income for Physicians $177,400
<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON —
The average income of the nation’s physicians rose to $177,400 in 1992, up 4% from the year before, the American Medical Assn. said.
The average income figures, compiled annually by the AMA based on a telephone survey of more than 4,100 physicians, ranged from a low of $111,800 for general practitioners and family practice doctors to a high of $253,300 for radiologists.
Physicians’ median income was $148,000 in 1992, or 6.5% more than a year earlier. Half the physicians earned more than that and half earned less.
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