What is the average salary of a family physician?
According to 2024 data from the Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard, the average full-time family physician's compensation is $297,189.
On average, full-time starting family physicians made $261,017 salary plus bonus while physicians with 20 or more years in practice made $307,719.
Average income by clinical focus area
The career benchmark dashboard has average career data for more than 35 clinical areas of focus and clinical settings in family medicine, including:
- sports medicine (average compensation of $321,341 reported)
- family medicine with obstetrics (average full-time compensation of $291,228 reported).
Family physician income state by state
Family physicians reported full-time salary plus bonus ranging from $246,554 in Washington, D.C., to $343,731 in Iowa.
How family physicians are paid
Physician compensation is commonly structured around elements like base salary, incentives or bonuses, productivity, supervision responsibilities, and hourly wages.
Details are important in compensation data. Experience, location, practice type, gender and race especially influence income.
Dig in so you can get a realistic perspective on what you should be paid.
Where to find family physician compensation data
The AAFP’s Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard is free for AAFP members and offers the most comprehensive way for family physicians to compare compensation levels across the specialty.
The dashboard features real-world responses from more than 8,500 peers in the specialty and dozens of filters to help you narrow down the details.
AAFP Member Advantage partner Resolve also offers salary data based on MGMA data and their database of employment contract offers.
Related blog: Lessons from compensation transparency
"Transparency builds morale—especially when it starts early."
– Yalda Jabbarpour, MD, Washington, D.C.
Using the Family Medicine Career Benchmark Dashboard
Discover how the career benchmark dashboard can help you get the right details with more than a dozen custom filters. Some of the top filters to use are:
- full time vs. part time
- state
- practice type
Compare family medicine incomes for free using the Career Benchmark Dashboard.
Family Medicine Jobs and Salaries
Many postings on the AAFP's job board CareerLink include salary ranges for current openings. You can use AAFP CareerLink to search for, save and get alerts for jobs of interest. Once you land a job, learn the best way to make the ask when negotiating for the compensation level you want.
