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Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other pay in Maryland and North Carolina
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other is $164,670 per year in Maryland. It is $117,210 per year in North Carolina. Maryland is 40.5% above North Carolina on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 29-1299 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 5,840 wage and salary jobs in Maryland and 800 in North Carolina. 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