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What the pay looks like
Median for the group
$265,930
Bottom tenth
$69,170
Top tenth
$452,360
There is no separate federal wage figure for palliative care. These doctors are counted inside a residual group called Physicians, All Other, a mix of specialties. In the 2025 federal wage survey that group's median is $265,930 a year, the bottom tenth earn $69,170 or less and the top tenth $452,360 or more. These figures describe the whole group, not this specialty alone, and they count only physicians paid a wage, so doctors who own their practice are largely missing.