OB-GYN Salary in New Jersey 2026,
$228,870 Median | BLS Data by City

The published New Jersey figure is $228,870 a year, or $110.03 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a band from $78,630 at the 10th percentile to $354,630 at the 90th. That is 21.9% below the national median of $292,910. The band is the important part: a $78,630 tenth percentile on a physician row indicates residents in training counted alongside attendings, and New Jersey has a large graduate medical education presence relative to a 740-person occupation.

Composition, principally. The row includes obstetrics and gynaecology residents, who are physicians in four-year postgraduate training earning training salaries, and on a small state row that population moves the median substantially. New Jersey's location quotient of 1.27 says the state carries more of this occupation than its size implies, which is consistent with a dense hospital maternity sector and the teaching programmes attached to it. The peer table — Idaho $223,560, Kansas $220,770, Alabama $210,380, Michigan $209,650, Illinois $208,000 — is a group of states whose published figures are similarly shaped.

No. The State Board of Medical Examiners, within the Division of Consumer Affairs, issues one physician licence covering all practice. Obstetrics and gynaecology is defined by a four-year residency and board certification through the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, neither of which the state records. The operative gate is hospital credentialling and privileging, because obstetrics cannot be practised without delivery privileges at a hospital with a maternity service — and alongside it, obtaining affordable professional liability cover.

Trenton-Princeton, at $298,050, which is the only published New Jersey metro above the statewide $228,870; Atlantic City-Hammonton is not published by BLS for this occupation. Most New Jersey obstetric practice takes place in hospitals counted inside the New York-Newark-Jersey City and Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metropolitan areas, which BLS publishes as their own multi-state areas, so the metro view here is very partial.

Not from the median. The $285,430 seventy-fifth percentile is the appropriate reference for a board-certified physician with an established practice and surgical volume, and the $354,630 ninetieth for subspecialty and leadership positions. The $78,630 tenth and $129,990 twenty-fifth percentiles describe the training population sharing this SOC row. Quoting the $228,870 state median in a negotiation for an attending post concedes ground to a figure that includes residents.

It makes composition dominate. On a large row, a few hundred trainees barely move the median; on a row of 740, a New Jersey residency cohort is a material fraction of the whole. That is why the ladder looks the way it does — $78,630 at the tenth percentile and $354,630 at the ninetieth on the same row is not a description of variation within one job, it is two populations averaged. The location quotient of 1.27 reinforces the reading: New Jersey has more of this occupation than its size predicts, which in a state with substantial academic medicine means more trainees as well as more attendings.

More than most cost inputs shape most professions. Obstetric malpractice premiums are among the highest in medicine because the claims involve lifelong care costs and very long statutes of limitation for injuries at birth. In a densely populated, actively litigated state that cost is significant enough to influence practice structure directly: it pushes physicians toward employed hospital and large group positions where the employer carries the cover, discourages solo practice, and in some cases leads physicians to drop obstetrics and practise gynaecology only. When comparing a New Jersey compensation figure with one from another state, whether the employer carries the liability premium is frequently worth more than the difference in the headline number.

It splits the practice in two. Delivery volume follows the birth rate, which has been falling, so the obstetric half of the specialty faces flat or declining demand — reflected in the 1.2% national growth projection and the pro-rated figure of about 20 openings a year in New Jersey. The gynaecological half faces the opposite pressure: an ageing female population needs more surgical, oncological, urogynaecological and menopause care. The practical consequence for a New Jersey physician is that the parts of the specialty carrying the highest liability cost are the parts growing slowest, which is a substantial part of why subspecialty and surgical practice sits at the $354,630 top of this band.