Radiologist Salary in Arizona 2026,
$470,640 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Arizona figure is $470,640 a year, or $226.27 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 11.8% above the national median of $420,860. The band runs $79,470 at the 10th percentile and $242,830 at the 25th, with both the 75th and 90th percentiles published at $688,200 — the same value twice, which means the top of the distribution is truncated rather than measured.

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler at $525,930, which is the only Arizona metro estimate released for this occupation — nothing was published for Tucson. That figure sits more than fifty-five thousand dollars above the statewide $470,640, which implies a meaningful population of radiologists practising outside the metropolitan area at lower rates.

Because the estimate has run out of resolving power at the top of the distribution. When OEWS reports two adjacent percentiles at an identical figure — here $688,200 — it means the underlying sample does not contain enough distinct observations above that point to separate them. It is a truncation signal rather than a statement that radiologists at the 75th and 90th percentiles earn identically. The practical consequence is that this page can support the median but not the spread above it.

Generally yes. Reading studies for an Arizona facility is treated as practising medicine where the patient is, so an Arizona licence is required regardless of where the radiologist physically sits — from the Arizona Medical Board for MDs or the Board of Osteopathic Examiners for DOs. That makes licensure a practical constraint on remote work rather than a formality, and it matters particularly in Arizona, where rural and retirement communities depend heavily on remote reading for coverage.

A combination of demand and mobility. Arizona's population skews older than the national average, which generates disproportionate imaging volume, and the state's rural and retirement communities are hard to staff for every clinical specialty — a pattern visible across every occupation in this unit. Meanwhile radiologists are among the most geographically mobile physicians, so markets compete for them nationally. Arizona's flat 2.5% income tax strengthens the recruitment position further on a net basis.

It means the median is the reliable anchor and the percentiles above it are not. A 75th and 90th percentile reported as the same $688,200 tells you that radiology compensation in Arizona extends at least that far, and nothing more precise. Anyone benchmarking a senior or partnership offer should treat that figure as a floor for the upper end rather than as a ceiling, and should weight the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler metro figure of $525,930 and the peer state medians more heavily than the truncated Arizona percentiles.

Beyond the truncation and the missing employment count: this is a wage-and-salary measure applied to a specialty with substantial private group partnership, productivity compensation tied to reading volume, and teleradiology contracting income — none of which a wage survey captures well. The $79,470 10th percentile is residents rather than practising radiologists. And with remote reading now widespread, the geographic attribution of radiology wages is more approximate in this specialty than in almost any other.

Reading volume and subspecialty above all — interventional radiology, neuroradiology and breast imaging carry distinct economics, and productivity-based compensation ties income directly to studies read. Then practice structure: private group partnership, hospital employment and academic appointment differ substantially in income and control over the worklist, and Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler's $525,930 against the statewide $470,640 likely reflects that mix. Then teleradiology arrangements, which let a radiologist add volume beyond one institution. And then rural and retirement community coverage, which in Arizona is chronically hard to staff.