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Surgeon salary in Vermont

U.S. Department of Labor wage data for May 2025. Vermont ranks 10 of 36 states by median wage for this occupation, paying 5.9% above the national median.

$438,530median annual wage in Vermont, May 2025
Lower end (10th pct)
$175,810
Median
$438,530
Top earners (90th pct)
$497,590
$175,810$497,590
10th percentile
$175,810
25th percentile
$301,400
Median percentile
$438,530
75th percentile
$497,590
90th percentile
$497,590
Mean
$367,210
Employed
160

The median ($438,530) sits above the mean ($367,210) here, which is normal in medicine: part-time and partial-year clinicians pull the average down, so the median is the better description of a full-time job.

How Vermont compares with the rest of the country

AreaLow (10th)AverageMedianTop 10%
Vermont$175,810$367,210$438,530$497,590
United States$80,320$373,930$414,010$655,320

Surgeon salary in other states

Where this comes from. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, for the occupation Surgeons, All Other. Employers report the wages they actually pay, and the methodology is published — unlike self-reported salary surveys, which nobody can verify.

What it leaves out. OES counts wage-and-salary employees. Self-employed physicians and practice owners are outside its scope, and partnership distributions are not wages, so in specialties where private practice is common these figures are likely to be conservative. Bonuses and profit-sharing are excluded from the wage measure as well.

One occupation, many specialties. BLS does not publish a separate wage for every clinical subspecialty; several are reported together under Surgeons, All Other. The figure describes that whole group, so a subspecialty within it may sit well above or below these numbers.

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