Allergists and Immunologists Career, Salary and Skills
Allergists and Immunologists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $265,930 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 342,720. Wage data is published for 384 locations.
Occupation description
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent allergic diseases and disease processes affecting the immune system.
O*NET code
29-1229.01
Job zone
5
Typical education
Post-Doctoral Training
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$265,930
Hourly median
$127.85
Employment
342,720
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.50 | 4.75 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.12 | 4.50 |
| Active Listening | 4.12 | 4.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.12 | 4.12 |
| Writing | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Monitoring | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Learning | 4.00 | 4.62 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Science | 3.88 | 3.88 |
Typical tasks
- Diagnose or treat allergic or immunologic conditions.
- Educate patients about diagnoses, prognoses, or treatments.
- Order or perform diagnostic tests such as skin pricks and intradermal, patch, or delayed hypersensitivity tests.
- Prescribe medication such as antihistamines, antibiotics, and nasal, oral, topical, or inhaled glucocorticosteroids.
- Interpret diagnostic test results to make appropriate differential diagnoses.
- Document patients' medical histories.
- Develop individualized treatment plans for patients, considering patient preferences, clinical data, or the risks and benefits of therapies.
- Provide therapies, such as allergen immunotherapy or immunoglobin therapy, to treat immune conditions.
Technology
- Allscripts PM
- athenahealth athenaCollector
- Automatic Data Processing AdvancedMD EHR
- Benchmark Systems Benchmark Clinical EHR
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- CareCloud Central
- Cerner PowerWorks Practice Management
- Crowell Systems Medformix
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Electronic Medical Records and Electronic Health Records Software IMS for Allergists
- Email software
- Epic Practice Management
- FlowJo
- GalacTek ECLIPSE
Allergists and Immunologists salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in TXMedian $269,800 · Employment 30,720
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in CAMedian $281,590 · Employment 25,530
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in PAMedian $217,310 · Employment 23,800
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in FLMedian $262,180 · Employment 23,390
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in OHMedian $297,440 · Employment 21,160
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in ILMedian $132,540 · Employment 20,790
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in New York, NYMedian $265,930 · Employment 17,210
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in Chicago, ILMedian $94,820 · Employment 16,950
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in NYMedian $242,500 · Employment 16,600
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in NCMedian $260,330 · Employment 14,080
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $222,410 · Employment 13,580
- Allergists and Immunologists Salary in MIMedian $155,480 · Employment 13,150
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.