In a report released Aug. 14, WalletHub determined the best states to live in. The site ranked all 50 states across five dimensions: affordability, economy, education and health, quality of life and safety. Those dimensions were then evaluated using 51 metrics, including the states’ unemployment rates, housing affordability and quality of their public school systems.
Salary information comes from May 2022 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It excludes anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dermatologists, emergency medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, general internal medicine physicians, neurologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, and pathologists.
Here are the average physician salaries in the 10 worst states to live in:
1. New Mexico: $270,060
2. Alaska: $232,450
3. Louisiana: $302,970
4. Mississippi: Estimate not released
5. Oklahoma: $223,920
6. Arkansas: $196,120
7. South Carolina: $305,130
8. Alabama: $234,260
9. Kentucky: $302,890
10. West Virginia: $252,710
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