General Internal Medicine Physicians
SOC 29-1216 · 2024-2034
Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
What California expects of this job
- Typical pay in California
- $322,677per year
- Projected openings
- 2,360
- Projected change
- +9%
- Usually needs
- Doctoral or professional degree
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Science
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Perceptiveness
- Complex Problem Solving
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $236,312 | 10 |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $144,729 | 200 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | Not reported | 220 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | Not reported | 550 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | Not reported | 10 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | Not reported | 10 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | Not reported | 50 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | Not reported | 140 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | Not reported | 230 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | Not reported | 170 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | Not reported | 60 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | Not reported | 50 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | Not reported | 10 |
What the pay actually ranges across
- The lowest-paid tenth earn under
- $76,257
- A quarter earn under
- $132,724
- Half earn under
- $322,677
- Three quarters earn under
- $399,015
- The highest-paid tenth earn over
- $454,075
A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| Occupation | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine Physicians | Not reported | 1,730 | +10.9% |
| Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $309,673 | 550 | +5.9% |
| Pediatricians, General | $220,134 | 2,350 | +7% |
| Neurologists | $367,076 | 410 | +8.3% |