Physician (Primary Care)
Diagnoses and manages illness across a panel of patients over years. The longest training path here, with the strongest licence moat.
- Pay band (est.)
- $238k–$381k
- Time to competence
- 11 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- clinic
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 45/100
- Hours burden
- 82/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play27th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge38th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand38th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay99th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body36th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy46th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit4th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility71th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill3th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance3th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Debt, decade-long training, litigation exposure, burnout rates.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 82/100 and people intensity 92/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Family Medicine Physicians (29-1215): median $238,380, 75th percentile (90th not published) $381,408. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +3.3%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.