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Emergency medicine physician salary in Minnesota

BLS OEWS May 2025 places the annual median employee wage for emergency medicine in Minnesota at $390,940; its separately published annual mean is $375,630. These salary and pay benchmarks are wage estimates, not a promised offer or total compensation.

Minnesota employee wagesBLS OEWS
Mean annual wage$375,630

Emergency medicine physicians · May 2025

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Minnesota wage snapshot

Emergency medicine · SOC 29-1214 · May 2025
Measure Estimate
Mean annual wage $375,630
Median annual wage $390,940
Employment estimate 990
Wage relative standard error 3.2%

Employee wages annualized at 2,080 hours. Not total compensation, guaranteed pay or a salary range. RSE measures estimate uncertainty, not your pay spread.

How to read the wage estimate

Annualized wages: BLS multiplies hourly wage rates by 2,080. These are not observed yearly earnings or total compensation.

Why is the mean below the median? These are the published BLS estimates: the mean is the average and the median is the midpoint. BLS does not explain the ordering for this state and specialty. Neither pay figure is marked withheld or topcoded in this row. Do not treat the pair as a salary range.

Employee wages, not all physician income or guaranteed base. Employment estimate: 990.

3.2% Wage relative standard error, not a pay percentile

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What the Minnesota emergency medicine wage row can tell you

The wage relative standard error is 3.2%. RSE describes estimate precision, not the spread between individual offers. In the Minnesota row for emergency medicine, $390,940 is the median annual employee wage and $375,630 is the mean. The employment estimate is 990 employee jobs, not current vacancies. Mean and median are different measures, not the ends of a salary range. These are employee wage estimates, not offers or total compensation.

Minnesota ED coverage: acuity, handoff and scope

An emergency medicine assignment begins with the care setting and responsibility for patients during the shift. This project’s existing offer questions address acuity, pediatric coverage, procedures, consultation and transfer arrangements. Have the hiring team describe those items in the actual Minnesota role. Ask whether the physician is taking a scheduled ED shift, covering another service or delivering a remote consultation. Those arrangements should not be treated as interchangeable simply because they appear under the same specialty heading.

Temporary coverage makes the end of the assignment particularly important. Establish who accepts pending results, transfer questions and patients still under evaluation when you finish. Get orientation and records access resolved before the shift instead of treating a signed locum agreement as clinical readiness. If a remote emergency service is discussed, have the team specify its limits and the local clinician or facility responsible for hands-on assessment. This is a planning checklist, not a claim about staffing levels or available Minnesota jobs.

Emergency Medicine: training records and board identity

The American Board of Emergency Medicine is the ABMS member board for Emergency Medicine. The project also lists Emergency Medical Services, Medical Toxicology and Pediatric Emergency Medicine among its subspecialty certificates. A proposed ED role does not by itself establish that a physician holds one of these additional credentials. BLS supplies the general physician degree and internship-or-residency pathway, but no specialty-specific training length is available in the project. Organize the education and emergency medicine training records and label board eligibility or certification accurately.

ABMS specialty and subspecialty certificates names boards and certificates; it is not a schedule of residency or fellowship duration. For the general education pathway, use BLS physician education and training. Verify any additional requirements with the relevant board and training program instead of assuming a certificate list supplies them.

Reading Minnesota emergency medicine without overinterpreting the row

The Minnesota employee-wage row is useful for comparing a specialty benchmark, not for setting a shift price. Its mean, median and employment estimate do not disclose the schedules, pediatric responsibilities or acuity in a particular department. The published RSE addresses statistical precision rather than variability between ED offers. Keep the source date attached to the wage and compare written hours and duties separately. Neither the row nor the linked comparison pages establish that a Minnesota emergency department is hiring now.

On this Minnesota page, the mean-minus-median calculation is $375,630 − $390,940 = −$15,310. That is a difference between statistical summaries, not a wage range, a shift premium or compensation withheld from a physician. Bring your own paid hours, work scope and contract terms to the physician offer comparison guide rather than asking the arithmetic to answer a contractual question.

Minnesota emergency medicine median: four wage reference points

The Minnesota emergency medicine employee-wage median of $390,940 is $115,010 (41.68%) above the published BLS physician-and-surgeon median of $275,930. This is a state-specialty versus national occupation-wide wage comparison, not a national emergency medicine median, an equivalent job comparison or a locums rate. The physician anchor comes from BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook; the state row is BLS OEWS May 2025.

Dollar gap = this page’s median minus the comparison median. Percentage gap = that dollar gap divided by the comparison median × 100; displayed percentages are rounded to two decimals. Positive means this page is higher; negative means lower. All related-specialty rows below use the same state and BLS May 2025 employee-wage period. No national compensation survey is mixed into this calculation.

Minnesota: related specialty employee medians, BLS May 2025
Related specialtyAnnual medianThis page minus relatedPercentage gap
Anesthesiology$496,510−$105,570−21.26%
Family Medicine$280,030+$110,910+39.61%
Internal Medicine$373,700+$17,240+4.61%

These linked rows are statistical reference points, not proof that emergency medicine and the comparison specialties perform equivalent work. Different occupation labels remain attached to every median. The source cannot explain the cause of a gap, establish an individual negotiating entitlement or describe benefits and self-employed income. Read the official Minnesota wage source alongside the linked guides before using a number in an offer discussion.

Minnesota emergency medicine: credentialing questions for the actual role

Use this specialty-focused checklist to prepare questions and organize evidence, not as a statement that every employer imposes the same requirements. Credentialing, state authority and site privileges remain distinct decisions. Ask the receiving organization what it needs to verify and what remains outstanding before the appointment begins.

  1. Choose the Minnesota application or registration route that fits the actual ED or remote assignment; do not treat the listed routes as interchangeable permissions.
  2. When using FCVS, identify the examination, education, training and NPDB records the board expects and address its written deficiencies.
  3. Ask which emergency procedures and patient populations the site’s privileges cover, and give the credentialing office the training evidence relevant to that scope.
  4. For locums, document consultation, transfer, late-shift and pending-result handoffs, along with orientation and system access.
  5. For a telemedicine arrangement, confirm patient location, applicable authority and the local escalation plan independently of the platform login or contract signature.

The underlying distinctions are described in the AMA credentialing, privileging and enrollment guidance. For remote work, consult HHS licensing across state lines; do not infer patient-state authority from an app account, a submitted application or an existing job.

Sources for this added context: BLS physician and surgeon occupation · BLS state employee wages · ABMS certificates · AMA credentialing guidance · HHS cross-state licensing

General information, not legal, tax or insurance advice. Confirm details with the source and with your state board, employer or insurer.

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National compensation

U.S. emergency medicine

Doximity 2026 report
$423,723 mean annual compensation

National full-time physician compensation, 2025 data. Not state wages.

Who was surveyed

2025 responses from full-time U.S. physicians working at least 40 hours a week.

Medscape: U.S. specialty total compensation

Medscape 2026 report
$421,000 mean total compensation

National full-time physician compensation, 2025 data. Not state wages.

Who was surveyed

2025 income reported by full-time U.S. physicians. Includes base salary, incentive bonus and other income, such as profit-sharing. Rounded as published; not a state figure.

National total compensation, not this state's average. Do not blend these surveys with state wages or call the figures a salary range.

Why the sources differ

Do not average these surveys together. Doximity and Medscape survey physicians; AMGA surveys organizations. Specialty definitions, work patterns, pay components and samples differ. Use each as a separate reference for the written offer.

The national survey measures compensation; the BLS state estimate measures employee wages. Different populations and pay definitions mean these are context, not directly comparable endpoints of a salary range. The national figure is not a state average.

Licensing and first-shift checks in Minnesota

Minnesota asks applicants to use an online or paper application, not both. Its physician application page identifies records supplied by FCVS when used, including examination, education, training and NPDB records. It lists full physician licensure, limited and faculty licenses, residency permits and telemedicine registration as different routes. Match the route to the actual setting and scope, resolve the board's written deficiencies, and confirm the issued credential and site privileges before working.

Minnesota Board of Medical Practice: applications

Build your emergency medicine offer checklist

Use the actual job description to check the work that sits behind the pay number. These are questions for the hiring team, not claims about available Saile jobs.

  • Compare shift length, nights, weekends and the actual care setting rather than converting a wage estimate into a shift rate.
  • Ask about expected acuity, pediatric coverage, procedural duties and who is available for consultation, transfer and backup.
  • Before the first shift, verify privileges for the required work, orientation and system access, and what happens when a shift is canceled or runs late.

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Emergency medicine salary questions in Minnesota

What is the average emergency medicine doctor salary in Minnesota?

BLS May 2025 estimates a mean annual employee wage of $375,630 and a median of $390,940 for emergency medicine physicians in Minnesota. The mean is the average; the median is the midpoint. These are covered employee wages, not total compensation, an offer or a salary range.

What is the hourly pay equivalent in Minnesota?

Dividing the annual wage estimates by 2,080 hours gives about $180.59 per hour for the mean and $187.95 for the median. This is an arithmetic equivalent, not a quoted locums, per-diem or telemedicine rate. Contract hours and benefits differ.

How does Minnesota emergency medicine pay compare nationally?

The Minnesota BLS figures cover employee wages. The national specialty survey cards above use different populations and total-compensation definitions. They provide context, but do not establish whether an equivalent Minnesota role pays above or below a national benchmark.

What should I verify before starting emergency medicine work in Minnesota?

Minnesota asks applicants to use an online or paper application, not both. Its physician application page identifies records supplied by FCVS when used, including examination, education, training and NPDB records. It lists full physician licensure, limited and faculty licenses, residency permits and telemedicine registration as different routes. Match the route to the actual setting and scope, resolve the board's written deficiencies, and confirm the issued credential and site privileges before working.

How can I find higher-paying or part-time emergency medicine work?

Compare actual offers with the same hours, duties and benefits. Use Saile to explore work options, including part-time, per-diem, locums, telemedicine and full-time opportunities. Matching depends on specialty, credentials and location; these wage estimates do not prove current openings or guarantee pay.

Source definitions

BLS May 2025 OEWS combines six survey panels over three years. It covers wage and salary employees, not self-employed physicians or unincorporated owners. Wages include straight-time gross pay and certain incentives, but exclude benefits, overtime, shift differentials and nonproduction bonuses. The relative standard error describes estimate uncertainty, not your pay spread.

BLS methods · State data · National survey methods and specialty table

Minnesota Board of Medical Practice: applications · HHS: licensing across state lines

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