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What this level of surgeon makes

Be careful with these numbers. The federal wage survey publishes no separate line for plastic surgeons, so the figures here come from the nearest published surgical line, pediatric surgeons, where the median is $559,030 and the bottom tenth sit near $215,410. Treat it as the right neighborhood, not a plastic surgeon's paycheck. It also counts only surgeons who are employees, and many plastic surgeons own their practice instead.