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General Internal Medicine Physicians pay in Georgia and Mississippi
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for General Internal Medicine Physicians is $425,460 per year in Georgia. It is $325,610 per year in Mississippi. Georgia is 30.7% above Mississippi on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1216 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 5,440 wage and salary jobs in Georgia and 390 in Mississippi. 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