Radiologist Salary in Texas 2026,
$319,320 Median | BLS Data by City

Texas radiologists earn a median $319,320 a year, $153.52 an hour, per BLS OEWS May 2025, with a 75th percentile of $456,760 and a 90th of $503,900. The lower percentiles — $77,270 and $100,550 — reflect fellowship, academic and part-time appointments rather than established practice, so the median is the floor for a full reading list, not the middle of one.

San Antonio-New Braunfels at $398,680, far ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at $156,800 and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands at $131,470. Those last two figures are well below the statewide median of $319,320, which tells you they are dominated by academic and health-system employed positions rather than by the private radiology groups that read most of the imaging in those cities.

Because SOC 29-1224 in Texas contains two populations that barely overlap. One is fellowship, academic and part-time appointments concentrated in the Texas Medical Center and the UT system, reporting salaries in the $77,270 to $100,550 region. The other is private group and hospital diagnostic practice at the $319,320 median and above. OEWS reports them as a single distribution. Read the median and above as the practising market.

No. Texas has no personal income tax and no local income tax, so a radiologist at the state median of $319,320 or the 75th percentile of $456,760 owes nothing to any state or city on it. At this level the annual saving against a top-bracket state exceeds a hundred thousand dollars over a few years, which is why Texas groups compete effectively on total compensation despite a below-national published median.

Yes. The Texas Medical Board requires a Texas physician licence to interpret imaging for a patient located in Texas, regardless of where the radiologist is sitting, and Texas has not joined the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact that expedites this elsewhere. Teleradiology groups covering Texas therefore maintain full Texas licensure for their readers, and the licensing timetable is a real constraint on how quickly a practice can add Texas coverage.

It is the largest caveat on any page in this set. A $77,270 tenth percentile and a $100,550 twenty-fifth are not radiologist market rates in Texas — they are the statistical footprint of academic and fellowship appointments inside a small state sample of about 2,330 physicians. Compounding it, the two largest metro rows, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington at $156,800 and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands at $131,470, fall below the statewide median, which is arithmetically possible only if the metro samples skew heavily toward employed academic practice. Treat this page as a lower bound throughout.

Recruitment pressure against supply. San Antonio-New Braunfels at $398,680 has substantial military and trauma imaging demand and no comparable academic pipeline feeding it, so it bids on the open market. Houston has the Texas Medical Center — the largest medical complex in the world — producing and absorbing radiologists continuously, and its published metro figure of $131,470 reflects how much of that market is academic. The Texas statewide median of $319,320 sits between the two realities.

Almost entirely, once you are past the employed tier. Texas radiology groups compensate on relative value units read plus call and procedure coverage, so the distance between the $319,320 median and the $456,760 seventy-fifth percentile is reading volume, subspecialty scarcity — interventional, neuro, breast — and partnership status. Teleradiology night coverage carries its own premium in Texas because the licensure requirement limits who can supply it, and none of the increment is taxed by the state.