Anesthesiologist Salary in New York 2026,
$445,660 Median | BLS Data by City

New York anesthesiologists earn a median $445,660 a year, $214.26 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a 75th percentile of $534,810 and a 90th of $561,000. The lower percentiles of $136,760 and $152,160 reflect fellowship, academic and part-time appointments in the state's large teaching sector rather than full clinical practice.

Buffalo-Cheektowaga at $512,620, then Albany-Schenectady-Troy at $471,720, New York-Newark-Jersey City at $460,800, Utica-Rome at $450,930 and Rochester at $366,040. Buffalo paying fifty thousand dollars above the metropolitan area is a recruitment premium — and it comes without New York City's resident income tax or its housing costs.

No. The New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions issues the physician licence through the State Board for Medicine — an unusual arrangement, since most states license physicians through a health agency or standalone board. There is no anesthesiology-specific state credential; board certification comes from the American Board of Anesthesiology. New York has not joined the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.

State rates run progressively from 4% to 10.9%, and residents of the five boroughs pay an additional New York City income tax of roughly 3.078% to 3.876%. At the state median of $445,660 that combined burden is among the highest in the country. Employees also fund Paid Family Leave at 0.432% of wages in 2026, capped at $411.91, and statutory disability coverage. Practising and living upstate — Buffalo-Cheektowaga at $512,620, for instance — removes the city layer entirely.

Because New York has the largest academic and teaching hospital sector in the country and a location quotient of 3.0 for this specialty. Fellowship appointments, academic staff positions and part-time arrangements are far more numerous here than elsewhere, and they report salaries in the $136,760 to $152,160 region. Full clinical practice sits at the $445,660 median and above, and the $534,810 seventy-fifth percentile is the realistic marker for established group or hospital practice.

Supply and competition. New York-Newark-Jersey City at $460,800 draws on the densest concentration of anaesthesia training programmes in the country and has no difficulty filling posts; the metropolitan area effectively produces its own workforce. Buffalo-Cheektowaga at $512,620 and Albany-Schenectady-Troy at $471,720 must attract physicians who could work downstate, and they bid accordingly. Add the absence of city income tax and far lower housing costs upstate, and the real after-tax gap is considerably wider than the fifty-thousand-dollar nominal one.

The distribution is bimodal and the median describes neither mode well. A $136,760 tenth percentile and a $152,160 twenty-fifth are academic and fellowship figures; a $534,810 seventy-fifth and a $561,000 ninetieth are full clinical and partnership figures. There is very little in between. Anyone benchmarking an established New York anaesthesia post should read the upper half of the band, and anyone considering an academic appointment should understand that the reported wage excludes the institutional support that makes those positions viable.

They set almost everything above the academic tier. New York anaesthesia groups compensate on units billed plus call obligation, so the distance between the $445,660 median and the $534,810 seventy-fifth percentile is usually call burden, case acuity and partnership status. Cardiac, paediatric and pain subspecialties carry their own premiums. And the upstate recruitment premium — Buffalo at $512,620 — stacks on top of all of it, untouched by New York City's resident tax.