Radiologist Salary in New Jersey 2026,
$482,700 Median | BLS Data by City

New Jersey radiologists earn a median $482,700 a year per BLS OEWS May 2025, 14.7% above the $420,860 national median. The published band runs from $84,210 at the tenth percentile to $673,000 at the ninetieth, but the lower percentiles capture residents and fellows rather than practising attendings, so the median and the upper percentiles are the meaningful figures.

No. There is no metropolitan breakout for radiologists in New Jersey in the OEWS May 2025 release, and no New Jersey employment count for the occupation either — the statewide figure of $482,700 covers all areas of the state. That is a limitation of the survey for small, high-wage physician specialties, and it means no honest comparison between northern and southern New Jersey radiology pay can be made from this source.

New Jersey's $482,700 is comfortably above Pennsylvania at $455,380 and sits just behind Michigan at $485,920, with New Hampshire the highest of the peer set at $506,010 and West Virginia at $471,650 and Arizona at $470,640 below. The New Jersey premium reflects a dense hospital market competing with New York and Philadelphia employers for the same subspecialists rather than any structural feature of practice in the state.

Because occupational wage surveys of physician specialties capture everyone who reports under the code. Radiology residents and fellows in New Jersey's teaching hospitals draw training stipends, and part-time academic appointments report partial-year salaries; both land in the lower percentiles. That is why $84,210 at the tenth percentile and $117,300 at the twenty-fifth sit so far below the $482,700 median, and why those figures should not be read as entry-level attending pay.

Subspecialty and practice structure. Interventional radiology, breast imaging and neuroradiology command premiums in a state with persistent subspecialty shortages, and partnership in an independent New Jersey radiology group pays differently from a hospital employment contract. Read volume, call obligation and whether the group has retained or ceded its outpatient imaging business are the mechanics behind the gap between the $482,700 median and the $673,000 ninetieth percentile.

Two of them. First, the lower percentiles are contaminated by trainees, so the published band overstates the true spread among practising radiologists. Second, radiologist compensation frequently includes partnership distributions, productivity bonuses tied to read volume and independent contractor teleradiology income, none of which a payroll wage survey captures cleanly. The $482,700 median is a defensible central figure for employed New Jersey radiologists; the distribution around it should be read with real caution.

It has partially decoupled pay from geography. Remote reading means New Jersey groups compete for subspecialty readers nationally rather than locally, and New Jersey radiologists can read for practices elsewhere. That pressure works both ways — it caps what a New Jersey group can charge for routine daytime reads while raising the value of on-site work that cannot be sent away: procedures, interventional cases, fluoroscopy and anything requiring physical presence in the department.

Consolidation has changed who employs you. New Jersey's hospitals have consolidated into a small number of large systems, and those systems have increasingly moved radiology from contracted independent groups to employed models or to national radiology staffing firms. The practical consequence is that the classic route to the $555,900 seventy-fifth percentile and the $673,000 ninetieth — buying into an independent group's partnership — is less available in New Jersey than it was, and subspecialty scarcity has become the more reliable lever.