15 of the highest-paying jobs for doctors

Surgeons are among the highest paid doctors.Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

• Some medical specialties have higher salaries than others.
• General practitioners, including family doctors and pediatricians, are among the highest-paid doctors. Dentists, orthodontists, and prosthodontists also have high salaries.
• Anesthesiologists are paid more than any other type of doctor.
• Here are the top 15 highest-paying jobs for medical doctors, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and their average salaries in 2019.

We tend to assume everyone sporting a lab coat and stethoscope is bringing home the big bucks — and that's certainly more true for doctors in some medical specialties than it is for doctors in others.

For instance, the average optometrist makes $122,980 a year, while the average surgeon earns nearly double that.

These were the highest paying doctor jobs in 2019, ranked.