Radiologist Salary in Massachusetts 2026,
$426,560 Median | BLS Data by City

The published Massachusetts figure is $426,560 a year, or $205.08 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 1.4% above the national median of $420,860. The band runs $113,600 at the 10th percentile, which is residents, to $591,970 at the 90th, with $371,090 at the 25th and $459,750 at the 75th. No state employment count was published for this cell.

Barnstable Town at $453,700, which is above both the statewide median of $426,560 and Boston-Cambridge-Newton's $409,740. Cape Cod outpaying Boston by roughly forty-four thousand dollars is the most striking result on this page, and it reflects the difficulty of recruiting radiologists to a geographically isolated market without an academic centre.

Because it has to compete against Boston rather than benefit from it. Barnstable Town is geographically separated, seasonal in population, and has an older year-round resident base generating substantial imaging demand — but no teaching hospital, no fellowship pipeline and no ready supply of radiologists who want to live there year-round. Boston, by contrast, is where radiologists want to be, and its academic appointments trade income for subspecialty depth and reputation. The $453,700 against $409,740 gap is that trade made visible.

Generally yes. Reading studies for a Massachusetts facility is treated as practising medicine where the patient is, so a Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine licence is required regardless of where the radiologist physically sits. That makes state licensure a genuine working constraint rather than an administrative formality, and it is why radiologists covering multiple states hold multiple licences. It also means remote reading has not eliminated the local licensing question the way it has eliminated the local presence one.

No. BLS published wage estimates for this cell but no employment count, which generally indicates the employment estimate did not meet publication standards. The consequences are stated plainly on this page: no claim is made about the size of the state's radiology workforce, and the annual openings figure quoted is the national total rather than a pro-rated Massachusetts share, since pro-rating requires an employment base this release does not provide.

Because Massachusetts's radiology workforce is unusually academic, and academic radiology pays below private group and community practice almost everywhere. Boston-Cambridge-Newton concentrates the state's teaching hospitals, their residents, fellows and junior faculty, and its metro figure of $409,740 reflects that composition rather than the market's ceiling. The compensating advantages of academic practice — subspecialty depth, research, teaching, reputation and case complexity — are real but are not wages, and OEWS measures only wages.

No employment base was published, so the estimate's reliability cannot be assessed the way it can where a workforce count exists. Beyond that, 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 $113,600 10th percentile is residents rather than practising radiologists. And remote reading makes geographic attribution more approximate in radiology than in almost any other specialty.

Practice sector first, and unusually in this state: moving from academic to private group or community practice is the largest single lever, which is precisely why Boston publishes below the state median and Barnstable Town above it. Then subspecialty, with interventional radiology, neuroradiology and breast imaging carrying distinct economics. Then reading volume, since productivity-based compensation ties income directly to studies read. And then teleradiology arrangements, which allow a radiologist to add volume beyond one institution's worklist.