Doctors In This Minnesota City Now Earn The Most In America

Think being a doctor pays well? You're not wrong. And, in one Minnesota city, physicians aren’t just earning big—they’re taking home the highest average paychecks in the entire country.

Minnesota is, of course, the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but we're also the Land of Over 28,000 physicians. That's according to the Minnesota Department of Health, which noted in this 2023 document that there are 28,247 physicians currently licensed in the state (which, as the document noted, could include both non-active or non-clinical physicians.)

And the North Star State is routinely ranked as one of the top states in the nation when it comes to healthcare. So, it makes sense that the state's many hospitals and clinics need a lot of physicians to provide that care. And one city in Minnesota now leads the country when it comes to paying them.

New Report Reveals the Top City for U.S. Doctor Salaries

That's the word from this new report from Doximity, a network of health care professionals. The Doximity 2025 annual compensation analysis found that physicians in this Minnesota city earn, on average, just under half a million dollars a year-- the highest amount of any city or metro area in the country.

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Which Minnesota city is it? Why, that would be the city that's the largest outside of the Twin Cities metro and is currently the third-largest in the state: Rochester. Minnesota's Med City, home of the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, has just topped the Doximity list of U.S. cities where doctors are paid the most, when adjusted for each city's cost of living.

Rochester, Minnesota Named Best-Paying City for Doctors in U.S.

And according to Doximity, those nearly half a million dollar salaries aren't sitting still, either-- the report found that physicians' paychecks in Rochester are increasing at the rate of 8.7 percent annually, also one of the top rates in the country.

Minnesota Doctors See Some of the Fastest-Rising Salaries Nationwide

Doctors in Minnesota's largest city of Minneapolis also aren't doing too poorly in the paycheck department, earning an average of $452,598 a year, good for 8th place on the Doximity list this year.

Here are the top 10 cities and how much physicians earn, according to Doximity:

1. Rochester, Minnesota  - $495,532
2. St. Louis, Missouri - $484,883
3. Los Angeles, California - $470,198
4. San Jose, California - $469,878
5. Sacramento, California - $460,671
6. Phoenix, Arizona - $459,082
7. Riverside, California - $455,986
8. Minneapolis, Minnesota  - $452,598
9. San Francisco, California - $449,830
10. Charlotte, North Carolina - $448,400

Mayo Clinic has been ranked the number-one hospital, not just in the U.S., but in the world in several different surveys over the past couple of years. Since the Mayo brothers themselves started seeing patients over 100 years ago, a lot of famous faces have headed to Rochester, Minnesota, to seek treatment. Keep scrolling to see who some of them are!

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