Anesthesiologist Salary in Georgia 2026,
$230,000 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $230,000 a year, or $110.58 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 41.3% below the national median of $391,490. The band runs $169,710 at the 10th percentile to $494,270 at the 90th, with the 25th percentile at $218,210 — unusually close to the median, which is a sign of a heavily employed specialty.

Augusta-Richmond County publishes $417,100 against Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell's $226,830, and with about 1,040 anesthesiologists in the whole state both figures rest on modest samples. The likeliest explanation is employment composition: Atlanta's very large hospital systems employ anesthesiologists on salary within care team models covering high case volumes, while a smaller market has to price to recruit and retain. Read the gap as a signal about how each market buys anaesthesia rather than as a relocation instruction.

Yes — Georgia is one of the states that recognises anesthesiologist assistants in statute, alongside certified registered nurse anesthetists, and a large share of the state's anaesthesia is delivered through care teams in which those clinicians work under physician direction. That model is central to understanding this record: it means a Georgia anesthesiologist frequently supervises several concurrent cases rather than administering each personally, which changes the job, the case coverage per physician and the compensation structure.

The care team model is the main structural reason. Where anaesthesia is delivered by nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants under physician direction, fewer anesthesiologists cover more cases and a larger share of them are salaried employees of hospital systems or large groups rather than partners. Both effects push a published median down. A location quotient of 0.86 is consistent with that. The $341,560 seventy-fifth percentile and $494,270 ninetieth show what subspecialty and partnership practice reaches.

It is worth more here than at lower incomes. Georgia applies a flat-rate state income tax — 5.49% on the rate basis used here — so the same proportion applies at the $230,000 median and at the $494,270 ninetieth percentile, where progressive states apply markedly higher top marginal rates to physician income. There is no local income tax anywhere in Georgia. It narrows the after-tax comparison with higher-paying but higher-taxing states, though it does not close a 41.3% gross gap.

Fundamentally. In a personally-performed model, one anesthesiologist covers one case and the physician headcount scales with theatre volume. In a care team model, an anesthesiologist medically directs several concurrent cases staffed by nurse anesthetists or anesthesiologist assistants, so the same surgical volume requires fewer physicians. Georgia recognises anesthesiologist assistants in statute and uses care teams extensively, which explains both the location quotient of 0.86 and the compression of the lower half of this band around $218,210 to $230,000 — a large employed, salaried, supervising tier. It also means comparing Georgia's median to a state with a different anaesthesia model compares different jobs.

With about 1,040 anesthesiologists statewide, only two published metro rows and a near-two-to-one gap between them, this record's geographic detail is thin and should be treated as indicative. The lower half of the band is compressed by the employed care team tier, so the median describes that tier rather than the specialty as a whole. And the wage measure excludes call pay, group partnership distributions and the productivity arrangements that are common in anaesthesia practice — all of which sit behind the $494,270 ninetieth percentile.

Practice structure first — moving from salaried employment within a care team to group partnership is most of the distance from the $230,000 median to the $341,560 seventy-fifth percentile. Subspecialty second, with cardiac, paediatric and pain medicine practice carrying the most. Market third, and the Augusta-Richmond County figure of $417,100 against Atlanta's $226,830 suggests smaller markets must bid harder to recruit. Call and case volume fourth, none of it pushed into a higher bracket by Georgia's flat tax.