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General Internal Medicine Physicians

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 250.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 29-1216
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$136,610 · 50th
$69,96010th
$75,56025th
$136,61050th
$258,50075th
$407,27090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Albany earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$136,610 in Albany buys what $137,200 buys across the country as a whole.

Albany's regional price parity is 99.6 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in New York

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Albany
Ithaca$370,320$358,400103.3+161.2%
Syracuse$269,270$281,20095.7+105.0%
Kiryas Joel$195,960$179,100109.4+30.5%
Buffalo$186,600$194,70095.8+41.9%
Glens Falls$140,720$148,30094.9+8.1%
Albany This page$136,610$137,20099.6
Binghamton$129,660$139,60092.9+1.8%
New York$105,960$94,100112.6−31.4%

Price parity and difference against Albany are in the full table on wider screens.

Sources

How this page was made

Wage data
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
Price parity
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
Employment
250 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 29-1216, General Internal Medicine Physicians. Mapped to our taxonomy as general-internal-medicine-physicians.

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