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Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other pay in Maryland and Pennsylvania
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other is $164,670 per year in Maryland. It is $103,150 per year in Pennsylvania. Maryland is 59.6% above Pennsylvania 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 870 in Pennsylvania. 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