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Emergency Medicine Physicians pay in Alaska and Rhode Island
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Emergency Medicine Physicians is $452,620 per year in Alaska. It is $512,730 per year in Rhode Island. Alaska is 11.7% below Rhode Island on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1214 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 190 wage and salary jobs in Alaska and 290 in Rhode Island. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.
Evidence: bls-oews-may-2025 · Rule: same-soc-same-metric-pair · nominal-median-gap · employment-not-openings