The 10 best states for physician cost of living 2024

With the cost of living rising everywhere, finding a place you can afford to live and practice can be difficult.

To give more insight into which states are the most expensive to live and work in, we present our rankings. These are the 10 states with the lowest cost of living for anyone running a physicians practice.

The cost of living ranking was based on the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, which itself based its ratings on averaging the indices of cities and metropolitan areas in each state.

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Best states 50-41, 40-31

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