Potential

• The average salary of pediatricians in the United States was $161,410 in May 2009. The middle 50 percent of pediatricians earned annual salaries of $152,240. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $84,840, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $166,400 per year.
  
  

Size

• The industries with the highest levels of employment of pediatricians are physicians' offices, general medical and surgical hospitals, and outpatient care centers. Pediatricians working in outpatient care centers earned an average annual salary of $171,300 in May 2009. Pediatricians employed by physicians' offices and hospitals earned slightly less and earned average annual salaries of $163,630 and $159,570 respectively.
  
  

Considerations

• The highest-paying industries for pediatrician jobs in the United States are local government, outpatient care centers, and physician offices. Local-government-employed pediatricians earned an annual average salary of $175,940 in May 2009. Comparatively, pediatricians employed with outpatient care centers earned $4,640 less, while pediatricians in physicians' offices earned $12,310 less than pediatricians working for a local government entity.