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What the job pays
Median
$172,250
Bottom tenth
$82,110
Top tenth
$274,110
The national median is $172,250 a year and the bottom tenth earn $82,110 or less. 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 range covers research physicists as well as hospital ones.