Cardiologist Salary in New York 2026,
$492,040 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $492,040 a year, or $236.56 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 0.8% below the national median of $496,010. The middle half falls between $226,430 and $572,180 and the full band runs $104,800 to $688,580. The wide lower tail reflects fellows and part-time appointments in the same occupation code rather than a low entry salary for a practising cardiologist.

New York-Newark-Jersey City at $492,150, which is essentially the statewide figure, ahead of Syracuse $460,900, Buffalo-Cheektowaga $451,790 and Rochester $415,000. The metropolitan premium is small — about thirty-one thousand dollars over Syracuse — and considerably smaller than the cost-of-living and city income tax difference between those markets.

No, and that is the finding worth taking from this page. The state median sits 0.8% below the national figure despite New York having the highest cost of living of any large state. A location quotient of 2.09 is the most plausible explanation: with cardiologists concentrated here at twice the national rate, the market has no scarcity to price, and the academic centres that create the density also supply a steady flow of newly trained specialists.

Through the New York State Education Department's Office of the Professions, which is an unusual arrangement — most states license physicians through a medical board under a health or licensing agency. The office handles licensure and professional discipline for physicians alongside the other licensed professions. Cardiology subspecialty standing comes separately from the American Board of Internal Medicine and is not administered by the state.

In net terms, very likely. Syracuse at $460,900 and Buffalo-Cheektowaga at $451,790 are roughly thirty to forty thousand dollars below the New York City metro figure in gross, but carry no city income tax of roughly 3.078% to 3.876% and a fraction of the housing cost. Recruitment difficulty is also upstate and rural rather than metropolitan, which means negotiating leverage is greater there than in Manhattan.

It removes the premium. Wages in high-earning medical specialties are driven substantially by scarcity — a hospital that cannot recruit an interventional cardiologist pays whatever it takes. New York has the opposite problem: at 2.09 times national concentration, and with 13.1% of the country's cardiologists in one state, the metropolitan market is saturated with academic and subspecialty practice, and there is always someone finishing a fellowship at one of the city's programmes. The result is a state median 0.8% below the national figure in the most expensive large state in the country. The corollary is that New York's leverage is upstate, where the density thins out.

The lower quarter of the band is fellowship and part-time work rather than practising cardiology, so the median is a better reference than any average. The wage measure excludes partnership distributions, call stipends and productivity arrangements that form a real part of cardiology income. The New York-Newark-Jersey City metro spans the state line, blending New York and New Jersey employment. And with about 2,260 cardiologists the sample is large for a specialty but still covers non-invasive, interventional and electrophysiology practice at very different rates.

Subspecialty first: interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and structural heart work carry premiums that general non-invasive practice does not, and they are what the $572,180 seventy-fifth percentile and $688,580 ninetieth describe. Practice structure second, because partnership and group ownership arrive as distributions a wage survey does not see. Call and procedural volume third. Geography fourth, and it is worth about thirty-one thousand dollars gross to be in the metropolitan area — which the city income tax and housing costs more than reverse in net terms.