Internal Medicine Doctor: what the job is, what it pays, and how to get hired.
The work, the skills that matter, the tools in demand and the pay range, from U.S. government data, plus every TryHired page for the role.
10% of internal medicine doctors earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $73,570
- Hourly
- $35.37
- Source
- BLS May 2025
25% of internal medicine doctors earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $124,470
- Hourly
- $59.84
- Source
- BLS May 2025
Half of internal medicine doctors earn more than this and half earn less.
- Annual
- $256,560
- Hourly
- $123.35
- Source
- BLS May 2025
75% of internal medicine doctors earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $374,850
- Hourly
- $180.22
- Source
- BLS May 2025
90% of internal medicine doctors earn less than this amount.
- Annual
- $475,430
- Hourly
- $228.57
- Source
- BLS May 2025
Internal Medicine Doctors diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. The median pay is $256,560 a year ($123.35 an hour) (BLS, May 2025). The most commonly reported education requirement is post-doctoral training (53% of workers surveyed by O*NET).
- Median pay
- $256,560
- BLS May 2025
- Employed in the U.S.
- 67,150
- BLS May 2025
- Preparation
- Job Zone 5 of 5
- extensive preparation
- Most common education
- Post-Doctoral Training
- 53% of workers
Data Government data groups this job as General Internal Medicine Physicians (O*NET-SOC 29-1216.00). Figures on this page are for that occupation.
Internal Medicine Doctors at a glance
General internal medicine physicians in the United States earned a median annual wage of $256,560 in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025
In its 2025–35 employment projections, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a doctoral or professional degree as the typical entry-level education for general internal medicine physicians in the United States.
Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35
BLS projects employment of general internal medicine physicians in the United States to grow 4.0% from 2025 to 2035, with about 1,900 openings a year on average, including replacement openings.
Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35
BLS estimated that 67,150 people were employed as general internal medicine physicians in the United States in May 2025, not counting the self-employed.
Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025
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What internal medicine doctors do day to day
Data Core tasks rated most important by workers in the role (O*NET).
- Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
- Treat internal disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, or problems of the lung, brain, kidney, or gastrointestinal tract.
- Prescribe or administer medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Manage and treat common health problems, such as infections, influenza or pneumonia, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses, in adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
- Provide and manage long-term, comprehensive medical care, including diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, for adult patients in an office or hospital.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Make diagnoses when different illnesses occur together or in situations where the diagnosis may be obscure.
Ranked by importance to the job
Data O*NET importance ratings. The first three are core.
Knowledge areas: Medicine and Dentistry, Biology, Therapy and Counseling, Psychology, Education and Training, English Language.
Software internal medicine doctors use
Data Examples reported for the role; employer demand flags from O*NET.
- Epic SystemsMedical softwareHot technology
- MEDITECH softwareMedical softwareHot technology
- eClinicalWorks EHR softwareMedical softwareHot technology
- Allscripts Professional EHRMedical software
- Billing softwareBilling and invoicing software
- Brickell Research Brickell Medical OfficeMedical software
- ChartWare EMRMedical software
- EpocratesMedical software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMRMedical software
- Greenway Health PrimeSuiteMedical software
- Med MathMedical software
- MedcomSoft RecordMedical software
Also called: Doctor, Gastroenterologist, General Internal Medicine Physician, General Internist, Internal Medicine Physician (IM Physician).
How this page is built
Tasks, skills, tools, education and related roles come from O*NET 31.0. Pay and employment come from the BLS OEWS May 2025 national estimates. The skill-match score is our calculation: Skill match is the cosine similarity of the two occupations' skill profiles: for each of 35 O*NET skills (10 essential, 25 transferable) we multiply importance by level and subtract the average across all occupations, then compare the direction of the two profiles. 100 means identical shape; 0 means unrelated or opposite (negative values are shown as 0). Only occupations that O*NET itself lists as related are compared.
- How a specific employer defines the job.
- Pay for self-employed workers (OEWS covers employees).
- Your own chances: data describes the occupation, not you.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 estimates (public domain).
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