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Family Medicine Physicians pay in North Dakota and Rhode Island
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Family Medicine Physicians is $280,100 per year in North Dakota. It is $467,160 per year in Rhode Island. North Dakota is 40.0% below Rhode Island on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1215 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 260 wage and salary jobs in North Dakota and 210 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.