Radiologist Salary in Indiana 2026,
$430,640 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Indiana figure is $430,640 a year, or $207.04 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 2.3% above the national median of $420,860. The ladder should be read with care: the 25th percentile of $405,210, the median and the 75th percentile of $431,410 sit within twenty-six thousand dollars of one another on a base of 680 radiologists, which indicates a thin sample rather than a genuinely compressed profession.

There is no metro answer available. BLS released no metropolitan estimates for radiologists in Indiana — nothing for Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood and nothing for Fort Wayne — so the statewide row of $430,640 is the only geographic figure this release provides. Any claim about regional variation within Indiana for this occupation would not be supported by the data.

Because the samples were too small or too concentrated to publish. With 680 radiologists across the state and a substantial share of reading now performed remotely, individual metro cells frequently fail OEWS reliability and disclosure tests. That is a statistical outcome rather than a statement about pay in any particular Indiana city, and the honest response is to report the statewide figure and say plainly that the metro table is empty.

Generally yes. Reading studies for an Indiana facility is treated as practising medicine where the patient is, so an Indiana Medical Licensing Board licence is required regardless of where the radiologist sits. That makes licensure a practical constraint on remote work rather than a formality, and it is why radiologists covering multiple states hold multiple licences. Indiana's consolidation of health boards under the Professional Licensing Agency makes the administrative side comparatively streamlined.

On net income, unusually so. The gross figure sits 2.3% above the national median, and Indiana's flat 3.05% state income tax with low county rates means a radiologist keeps far more of it than in a high-tax state — a difference worth tens of thousands of dollars annually at this income. A location quotient of 1.24 also shows Indiana staffs the specialty above the national rate, so the market is established rather than thin. The caveats are about the data's precision, not the state's attractiveness.

That the sample does not contain enough distinct wage observations to separate adjacent percentiles meaningfully. When the 25th percentile is $405,210, the median $430,640 and the 75th $431,410, those figures are not describing three distinct points in a distribution — they are describing one cluster with a long low tail from residents. Combined with the absence of any metro estimates, the honest reading is that this page can support a statement about the level of Indiana radiology compensation but not about its spread.

Beyond the compression: 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 $79,520 10th percentile is residents rather than practising radiologists, and it is what makes the bottom of this band look implausible. And with remote reading now widespread, the geographic attribution of radiology wages is more approximate than in almost any other medical specialty.

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 in control over the worklist. Then teleradiology arrangements, which let a radiologist add volume beyond one institution's studies. And then call and after-hours coverage, which in imaging is continuous and separately compensated.