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What the job pays
Median
$172,250
Starting
$82,110
Senior or chief physicist
$274,110
The national median is $172,250 a year and the bottom tenth are near $82,110. The wage survey has no separate line for medical physicists: it counts them inside Physicists, where the government's own occupation database lists Medical Physicist as one of the reported job titles. The low end of that range includes research physicists, not hospital ones.