OB-GYN Salary in Florida 2026,
$292,910 Median | BLS Data by City

BLS does not publish a statewide figure for obstetricians and gynaecologists in Florida — the May 2025 OEWS state cell for SOC 29-1218 is suppressed and was not released. The reference figure on this page is therefore the national median of $292,910 a year, or $140.82 an hour, with a national band from $94,680 to $437,300. The one real Florida observation available is the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metro row at $337,410.

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford at $337,410 is the only Florida metro row published for this occupation. No figure was released for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater or North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota. That single Orlando observation sits well above the national reference median of $292,910, which is informative but is a single metro rather than a state picture.

Because OEWS suppresses estimates that fail its disclosure or reliability tests, and with about 1,620 obstetricians in the state the sample can be thin or too concentrated among a few employers to publish safely. Suppression is a statistical decision and says nothing about pay levels. The honest response is what this page does: use the national median as a labelled reference, publish the one real Florida metro row alongside it, and never present any figure as a Florida-specific salary.

The Neurological Injury Compensation Association is a Florida no-fault programme that compensates families in cases of certain catastrophic birth-related neurological injuries, in place of a malpractice suit against a participating physician or hospital. Obstetricians who participate pay an annual assessment and gain protection from tort liability for qualifying injuries. It exists because obstetric malpractice premiums in Florida had become a barrier to maintaining delivery services, and it remains a distinctive feature of practising obstetrics in this state.

Materially, yes. Florida levies no personal income tax, no state disability contribution and no paid family leave premium, so at the national 75th percentile reference of $369,390 a physician keeps tens of thousands of dollars a year more than an equivalent earner in a high-tax state. The counterweight is liability cost, which in obstetrics is the highest of any specialty. Florida's participation option through the Neurological Injury Compensation Association addresses part of that, which is why the two facts belong together in any assessment of practising here.

It means BLS is unwilling to publish a state estimate because the underlying sample is too small, too concentrated, or otherwise fails its reliability and disclosure tests. It does not mean the occupation is rare — about 1,620 obstetricians work in Florida at a location quotient of 1.19, which is above the national rate — and it does not imply anything about pay. Using the national median of $292,910 as an explicit reference is the defensible response; modelling a state figure and presenting it as BLS data would not be.

They describe a national occupation whose distribution is set by markets quite unlike Florida's — the national band from $94,680 to $437,300 blends academic, rural, private and health-system practice across fifty states. Florida's own composition, with its heavy in-migration, dense southwest and central Florida growth corridors and distinctive obstetric liability structure, is not the national average. The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford figure of $337,410 is the one real Florida data point on this page, and it sits considerably above the national reference median — one observation, but a directional one.

Delivery and surgical volume above all, since obstetric income is fundamentally procedural. Then employment structure — health-system employment trades income for predictability, while private and partnership practice carries more upside and more liability exposure. Then geography within the state, with Florida's fast-growing central and southwest corridors generating obstetric volume that the older coastal retirement markets do not. And then the liability arrangement, including whether the physician participates in the Neurological Injury Compensation Association, which changes both the premium and the risk profile of a Florida obstetric practice.