It's a fairly easy statistic to find; here's the first hit on Google: https://www.medicalbag.com/finance/examining-physician-salaries-in-the-united-states/artic

It's a fairly easy statistic to find; here's the first hit on Google: https://www.medicalbag.com/finance/examining-physician-salaries-in-the-united-states/article/710038/ https://www.medicalbag.com/finance/examining-physician-salar... One caveat is that oftentimes you'll see higher numbers (in the range of 15-20%) cited, but that's usually because they're not distinguishing between doctors (MDs) and other clinical staff (nurses, physicians' assistants, etc.). In the aggregate, the latter account for about half, or in other words, roughly equal to what doctors in total pull in. As that article notes, this also doesn't mean that all of that money goes to the physicians themselves. Some portion is taken by the practices and groups that employ them, and a huge chunk of physicians' take-home pay is allocated towards business expenses[0]. For the context of the original article, only MDs are relevant, not what NPs, RNs, and so forth make. [0] Unlike software developers, who generally have their business expenses covered by their employer, physicians are typically expected to cover all of theirs out-of-pocket, which means that the seemingly-high salaries that you often see listed aren't directly comparable to salaries in many other fields, where the out-of-pocket expense are much lower.