Radiologist Salary in Ohio 2026,
$260,000 Median | BLS Data by City

A median $260,000 a year, or $125.00 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025 — 38.2% below the national median of $420,860. The band runs $69,210 at the 10th percentile to $471,600 at the 90th, with the 25th at $83,290 and the 75th at $402,670. The gap between those two quartiles is where the real story sits.

Composition rather than demand. Ohio's radiology employment is concentrated in large academic and integrated health systems that employ radiologists on salary and carry substantial residency and fellowship programmes, and all of those people are counted in the same estimate. Salaried institutional radiology pays well below private group practice everywhere. The $402,670 seventy-fifth percentile is close to the national median and describes what independent and subspecialty practice in Ohio actually earns.

Cincinnati at $287,990 and Columbus at $269,430 — the only two published rows, both close to the $260,000 statewide median. That tightness is itself informative: it says Ohio's major radiology markets are paying at similar salaried institutional levels rather than diverging, which is what a state dominated by large integrated systems looks like.

Yes. Interpreting an imaging study for a patient in Ohio is the practice of medicine in Ohio and requires a licence from the State Medical Board of Ohio, wherever the radiologist physically sits. That matters here because Ohio's community and rural hospitals depend heavily on remote reading coverage, and every one of those reads must come from an Ohio-licensed physician — which keeps the state's imaging demand inside its own licensed pool regardless of where the radiologists live.

Instructively. Ohio publishes an anaesthesiology median 25.3% above the national figure and a radiology median 38.2% below it, on samples of about 780 and 770 respectively — the same state, the same tax position, the same hospital systems. The difference is structural: anaesthesiology has thin physician supply at a 0.56 location quotient and must be recruited, while radiology is concentrated in salaried institutional practice at 0.81. It is the clearest illustration in this data that a state median measures employment structure, not clinical value.

That comparing a state's median to the national one tells you about employment composition first and about market strength second. Anaesthesiology in Ohio is under-supplied relative to surgical demand, so hospitals bid, and the published median lands 25.3% above the national figure. Radiology in Ohio is concentrated in large integrated systems that employ radiologists on institutional salaries and train large numbers of residents and fellows, so the published median lands 38.2% below. Neither number describes what a senior practitioner in that specialty is worth. The $402,670 seventy-fifth percentile for radiology, close to the national median, is a far better guide than the median is.

It sits between two populations rather than within one — with $83,290 at the 25th percentile and $402,670 at the 75th, there is very little employment near the median itself. Only two metro rows are published, both close to the state figure, so the data can say nothing about geographic variation. The wage measure excludes partnership distributions, per-study reading arrangements and after-hours differentials, which is where a substantial share of non-salaried radiology income sits. And with about 770 radiologists counted, precision should not be over-read.

Employment sector first, decisively — leaving salaried institutional practice for an independent group is most of the distance from the $260,000 median to the $402,670 seventy-fifth percentile. Subspecialty second, with interventional radiology and neuroradiology carrying the highest value. Reading volume third, since productivity-linked arrangements are the main variable component and Ohio's rural hospital coverage generates substantial remote demand. And the municipal tax question fourth, given how many Ohio cities levy their own income tax on where work is performed.