Anesthesiologist Salary in Arizona 2026,
$391,490 Median | BLS Data by City

BLS does not publish an Arizona figure for anesthesiologists — the state cell for SOC 29-1211 is flagged as at or above the survey's publication ceiling of $239,200 a year and no value was released. The reference figure on this page is therefore the national median of $391,490 a year, or $188.22 an hour, with a national band from $101,460 to $557,130. No Arizona metro estimates or employment count were published either.

No Arizona metropolitan estimates were released for this occupation. Nothing was published for Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, Tucson or Prescott Valley-Prescott, so there is no basis in this release for ranking Arizona metros on anaesthesiology pay, and this page does not attempt one.

OEWS does not report wage values above a set threshold — $239,200 a year in the May 2025 release — and cells whose estimates fall at or above it are flagged rather than valued. It exists because the survey's methodology cannot reliably estimate the very top of a wage distribution, and because publishing a specific figure there would imply precision the data does not have. For high-earning physician specialties this happens regularly, and the honest response is to say so and use the national figures as a labelled reference, which is what this page does.

Yes. The Arizona Medical Board licenses allopathic physicians and the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners licenses osteopathic physicians, rather than a single composite board covering both. Neither issues an anaesthesiology endorsement — specialty standing comes from residency and American Board of Anesthesiology certification, and hospital privileging is the practical gate. For a physician relocating to Arizona the practical consequence is simply that the application route follows the degree held.

On the economics, the strongest argument is tax rather than gross pay: Arizona's flat 2.5% state income tax is the lowest flat rate in the country and, at anaesthesia incomes, is worth tens of thousands of dollars a year against a graduated high-tax state. On demand, Arizona's demographic profile generates substantial surgical and procedural volume. What this page cannot tell you is the Arizona wage itself, because BLS did not release one — the national reference figures are the honest substitute.

It means the estimated value fell at or above the highest figure OEWS is willing to report, which for the May 2025 release is $239,200 a year. Rather than publishing a value the survey cannot stand behind, BLS flags the cell. That is common in physician specialties, where a large share of the workforce earns well above the ceiling and the survey's design compresses the top of the distribution. Importantly, it does not mean the true Arizona figure is exactly at the ceiling — only that it is at or above it, and that the survey stops there.

They describe a national occupation whose distribution reflects fifty different markets, cost structures and practice models. Arizona's own anaesthesia market — with a large metropolitan area, a substantial ambulatory surgery sector and a set of small rural and retirement communities that struggle to staff any specialty — is not the national average. The national band from $101,460 to $557,130 is the best available reference and it is genuinely useful for orientation, but no figure on this page is an Arizona observation, and this page does not present one as such.

Subspecialty first — cardiac, paediatric and pain medicine command distinct rates, and fellowship investment is much of what the national $490,530 seventy-fifth percentile reference represents. Then practice structure: private group practice, hospital employment and academic appointment differ substantially in income and call profile. Then call burden, which is heavy in this specialty and separately compensated. And in Arizona specifically, willingness to cover the state's rural and retirement communities, which struggle to staff clinical specialties and price accordingly — a pattern visible across every other occupation in this unit.