Anesthesiologist Salary in Indiana 2026,
$394,060 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Indiana figure is $394,060 a year, or $189.45 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 0.7% above the national median of $391,490, which makes Indiana essentially level with the country on gross pay and well ahead of it on take-home given the state's flat 3.05% income tax. The band runs $217,040 at the 10th percentile to $512,160 at the 90th.

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood at $374,730 is the only metro estimate released, and it sits about nineteen thousand dollars BELOW the statewide median of $394,060. No figure was published for Fort Wayne. The capital paying under the state figure reflects the concentration of academic and hospital-employed anaesthesia there, which pays below private and group practice.

A location quotient of 1.83 means the state employs them at nearly twice the national rate relative to total employment, which is genuinely unusual. Indiana has a substantial academic medical presence, a large surgical and procedural base for its population, and a well-established anaesthesia training pipeline that retains graduates. The state's low flat income tax also makes it comparatively attractive on net income terms even where gross pay is only level with the national figure, which supports retention.

Because academic and hospital-employed anaesthesia concentrates in the capital, and salaried academic appointments pay below private group practice everywhere. The $374,730 metro figure against a $394,060 statewide median is that composition effect rather than a statement about Indianapolis as a market. It also means anaesthesia practice outside the capital — in community hospitals and surgical centres across the state — accounts for a meaningful part of the upper half of the band.

No. The Indiana Medical Licensing Board, within the Professional Licensing Agency, issues a single physician licence covering both MDs and DOs, with no anaesthesiology endorsement. Specialty standing comes from an anaesthesiology residency and American Board of Anesthesiology certification, neither of which the state administers, and hospital privileging is the operative gate for practice. Indiana's consolidation of health boards under one agency makes the administrative process comparatively streamlined.

Several things reinforcing each other. Indiana has a substantial academic medical centre presence that trains anesthesiologists and retains a share of them. The state's surgical and procedural volume is high relative to its population, supported by a well-developed hospital network including strong community and specialty facilities. And the economics are favourable on net rather than gross: a flat 3.05% state income tax means Indiana anaesthesia income goes considerably further than the same gross elsewhere, which supports both recruitment and retention in a specialty where physicians are highly mobile.

This is a wage-and-salary measure applied to a specialty in which group partnership, call stipends and productivity components are meaningful parts of income and are captured unevenly. Only one metro estimate was released, and it reflects an academically weighted market rather than the state as a whole. And the $217,040 10th percentile is residents, so it should not be read as attending pay — though it is notably higher than the equivalent tier in most specialties, which reflects how little part-time anaesthesia practice exists.

Subspecialty first — cardiac, paediatric and pain medicine command distinct rates, and fellowship investment is much of what the $455,150 seventy-fifth percentile represents. Then practice structure: private group practice generally pays above academic and hospital employment, which is precisely why Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood publishes below the state median. Then call burden, which is heavy in this specialty and separately compensated in most arrangements. And then case mix and site, since ambulatory surgery centre work and complex hospital anaesthesia are quite different propositions.