General Internal Medicine Physicians Career, Salary and Skills
General Internal Medicine Physicians have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $256,560 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 67,150. Wage data is published for 183 locations.
Occupation description
Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.
O*NET code
29-1216.00
Job zone
5
Typical education
Post-Doctoral Training
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$256,560
Hourly median
$123.35
Employment
67,150
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.12 | 5.00 |
| Active Listening | 4.12 | 4.25 |
| Science | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 4.00 | 4.75 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Writing | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Speaking | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Monitoring | 3.88 | 4.00 |
Typical tasks
- Treat internal disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, or problems of the lung, brain, kidney, or gastrointestinal tract.
- Prescribe or administer medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Manage and treat common health problems, such as infections, influenza or pneumonia, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses, in adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
- Provide and manage long-term, comprehensive medical care, including diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, for adult patients in an office or hospital.
- Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
- Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Make diagnoses when different illnesses occur together or in situations where the diagnosis may be obscure.
- Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
Technology
- Allscripts Professional EHR
- Billing software
- Brickell Research Brickell Medical Office
- ChartWare EMR
- e-MDs software
- e-MDs topsE&M Coder
- eClinicalWorks EHR software
- Email software
- Epic Systems
- Epocrates
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Greenway Health PrimeSuite
- Med Math
- MedcomSoft Record
General Internal Medicine Physicians salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in New York, NYMedian $105,960 · Employment 10,380
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in NYMedian $183,460 · Employment 10,000
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in CAMedian $313,890 · Employment 6,370
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in GAMedian $425,460 · Employment 5,440
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in TXMedian $269,110 · Employment 3,850
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in MDMedian $260,410 · Employment 3,250
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in NJMedian $89,990 · Employment 2,920
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in AZMedian $259,320 · Employment 2,570
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in FLMedian $222,600 · Employment 2,390
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in INMedian $314,390 · Employment 2,380
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in MNMedian $373,700 · Employment 2,270
- General Internal Medicine Physicians Salary in Baltimore, MDMedian $322,890 · Employment 2,100
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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.