Objective By understanding the current situation of job burnout of pediatricians in Guangzhou municipal hospitals and the correlation of social support, to provide reference basis for pediatricians to intervene in job burnout. Methods The Burnout Inventory and the Social Support Rating Scale were used for pediatricians in Guangzhou municipal hospitals, and Excel and SPSS 25.0 were used to conduct statistical description, variance analysis and correlation analysis of the survey results. Results There were 272 pediatricians (73.51%) showed different degrees of job burnout of the 370 pediatricians in Guangzhou municipal hospitals, among which 117 pediatricians (31.62%) showed moderate burnout. Among the three dimensions of job burnout, the highest score was emotional exhaustion (21.64±7.17). The total score of social support was (37.68±8.24), and the dimensions of the objective support, the subjective support and the utilization of support were (7.71±3.23), (22.53±5.03), (7.44±1.92), respectively. Among them 227 (61.35%) had low level of social support. Additionally, there was a negative correlation between each dimension of job burnout and each dimension of social support. Conclusion Pediatricians in Guangzhou municipal hospitals have more serious job burnout, and most of them have low level of social support, especially poor objective support. The higher level of social support will have the lower degree of job burnout. It suggests that the impact of social support on job burnout should be fully considered for alleviating job burnout.