Pediatrician Salary in Florida 2026,
$182,010 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $182,010 a year, or $87.51 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 13.3% below the national median of $210,040, with no state income tax taken from it. The band runs $68,590 at the 10th percentile to $239,990 at the 90th, with the middle half between $96,920 and $210,010. The bottom quarter is residency and part-time practice rather than established paediatric income.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach at $186,620, then Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater $182,680, Lakeland-Winter Haven $116,320 and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford $103,720. Only four Florida metros carry a published figure at all, and with about 700 pediatricians in the whole state the two lower rows are small-sample artefacts rather than reliable local rates.

Because the occupational code captures general pediatricians specifically, and Florida delivers a great deal of its child healthcare in other ways. Family physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants carry much of the state's paediatric primary care, particularly in fast-growing suburban and rural areas, and paediatric subspecialists are counted in other codes. A location quotient of 0.28 — about a quarter of the national rate — is therefore describing the shape of Florida's care delivery rather than a shortage of child health services as such.

Not at all. Florida levies no state personal income tax and no local income tax, and the prohibition is written into the state constitution. At the $182,010 median that is worth a substantial amount against a mid-to-high-rate state — enough to close most, though not all, of the 13.3% gap to the national median in take-home terms. The costs that offset it are property insurance, which is high across the state because of hurricane exposure, and 6% sales tax before county surtaxes.

It is a real competitive factor. Florida operates an out-of-state telehealth provider registration under section 456.47, Florida Statutes, which allows a clinician licensed in another state to treat Florida patients remotely without obtaining a full Florida licence. For routine paediatric consultation that widens the supply of clinicians competing for the same encounters, in a way that does not happen in states requiring full licensure. It does not touch the in-person, procedural and continuity-of-care work that established Florida paediatric practice is built on.

Not that the state does not need pediatricians — that it staffs child health differently. Florida's growth has been fastest in suburban and exurban counties where new primary care capacity has been built around family medicine and advanced practice clinicians rather than around dedicated paediatric practices. Established paediatric practices in the mature metros remain, which is why Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach publishes $186,620 and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater $182,680. The practical reading is that the Florida market for general paediatrics is concentrated rather than statewide, and that opportunity outside the established metros looks different from a conventional paediatric job.

The sample is small — about 700 pediatricians for the whole state — which makes the metro rows fragile and is why Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford's $103,720 should not be read as what an Orlando pediatrician earns. The band is also bimodal, with residency at the bottom and practice at the top and the 25th percentile of $96,920 sitting in training territory. And the wage measure excludes partnership distributions and productivity arrangements, which are how a substantial part of paediatric practice income is actually delivered.

Payer mix first — practices weighted toward commercial insurance rather than Florida KidCare and Medicaid earn materially more per encounter, and that difference is most of the distance from the $182,010 median to the $210,010 seventy-fifth percentile. Practice ownership second, which in Florida carries the added advantage that distributed profit faces no state income tax. Hospital employment third, particularly in the state's children's hospital systems. And metro choice fourth, though with only four published metro rows the geographic evidence here is thinner than in most Florida occupations.