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What the wage survey shows

Median

$236,000

Bottom tenth

$66,260

Where the survey stops

$239,200

The federal wage survey has no gastroenterology category. It files the specialty under Physicians, All Other, where the median is $236,000 a year and the bottom tenth sit near $66,260. There is no published top figure at all: once pay passes $239,200 a year the survey stops counting and reports everyone above that as one lump. So the high number here is a cut-off, not a ceiling.