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Physician
Salary Surveys
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Salaries are of great interest to
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are most dependent on location and type of employment, training,
expertise,
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and competency of each physician.
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Physician
Specialties |
Average
Base |
Starting |
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National
Average |
$135,000 |
$120,000 |
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Cardiology
- Invasive |
$206,000 |
$185,000 |
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Cardiology
- Non Invasive |
$185,000 |
$165,000 |
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Family
Practice |
$136,000 |
$124,000 |
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Hematology/Oncology |
$161,000 |
$102,000 |
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Internal
Medicine |
$236,000 |
$149,000 |
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Neurology |
$162,000 |
$129,000 |
|
Obstetrics/Gynecology |
$324,000 |
$230,000 |
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Occupational
Medicine |
$142,000 |
$128,000 |
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Pediatrics |
$136,000 |
$123,000 |
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Psychiatry |
$185,000 |
$135,000 |
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Physiatry |
$136,000 |
$119,000 |
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Pulmonary |
$179,000 |
$149,000 |
|
Radiology |
$193,000 |
$162,000 |
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Rheumatology |
$144,000 |
$135,000 |
|
Surgery/Orthopedics |
$286,000 |
$224,000 |
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Urology |
$207,000 |
$207,000 |
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Physician
Assistant |
$67,000 |
$60,000 |
Physician
Salaries by Specialty
Recent
Healthcare Salary Surveys
- Practicing Physicians' Salaries
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Average
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|
Anesthesiology
|
$223,082
|
$228,000
|
$213,400
|
$201,000
|
$262,327
|
$190,000
|
NA
|
$162,500
|
$180,690
|
$193,612
|
$203,326
|
|
Cardiology
|
$252,098
|
NA
|
$204,200
|
$205,900
|
$262,057
|
$182,000
|
$227,921
|
$150,000
|
$186,986
|
$198,045
|
$207,690
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Emergency
Medicine
|
$171,789
|
$171,000
|
$162,800
|
$128,300
|
$174,775
|
$150,00
|
NA
|
$150,000
|
$152,000
|
$154,911
|
$157,286
|
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Family
Practice
|
$126,574
|
$116,800
|
$125,600
|
$120,000
|
$132,578
|
$129,000
|
$126,957
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$100,000
|
$126,838
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$121,905
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$122,625
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General
Surgery
|
$206,411
|
$232,700
|
$198,500
|
$164,400
|
$223,764
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$169,000
|
$213,960
|
$150,000
|
$168,292
|
$175,703
|
$190,273
|
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Internal
Medicine
|
$134,897
|
$147,300
|
$131,200
|
$113,000
|
$141,129
|
$130,000
|
$131,205
|
$100,000 |
$126,840 |
$118,086 |
$127,366 |
| Neurology |
$162,250 |
NA |
$147,600 |
$144,000 |
$188,765 |
$166,000 |
NA |
$125,000 |
$134,417 |
$126,436 |
$149,309 |
| Obstetrics/Gynecology |
$219,829 |
$221,900 |
$209,700 |
$200,000 |
$231,565 |
NA |
$214,081 |
$180,000 |
$193,000 |
$184,200 |
$204,752 |
| Oncology |
$192,055 |
NA |
$170,700 |
$155,400 |
$229,184 |
$166,000 |
NA |
$120,000 |
$213,731 |
$142,171 |
$173,655 |
| Pathology |
$202,486 |
$197,300 |
$173,600 |
$150,000 |
$210,070 |
$200,000 |
NA |
$130,000 |
$150,761 |
$161,215 |
$175,048 |
| Pediatrics |
$130,380 |
$135,400 |
$126,900 |
$110,600 |
$135,000 |
$120,000 |
$120,357 |
$100,000 |
$117,053 |
$121,213 |
$121,776 |
| Psychiatry |
$163,446 |
$171,300 |
$167,400 |
$180,000 |
$168,123 |
$199,000 |
$135,682 |
$180,000 |
$173,446 |
$124,465 |
$138,267 |
| Radiology |
$238,648 |
NA |
$219,100 |
$177,714 |
$291,251 |
$175,000 |
$213,316 |
$140,000 |
$189,723 |
NA |
$209,150 |
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Employment
Statistics
Below are the
approximate number of jobs held nationally in 1996 by
healthcare professionals:
|
Job
Title
|
Number
of Jobs
|
|
Registered
Nurses
|
1,971,000
|
|
Physicians
(M.D. & D.O.)
|
560,000
|
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Physician
Assistants
|
64,000
|
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Pharmacists
|
172,000
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| %
of Physicians Practicing |
Work
Environment
|
| 70% |
Office
Based
|
|
20%
|
Hospitals
|
| 10% |
Other
(i.e. Government)
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Employment
Count - United States
Information
on the most saturated metropolitan markets for physicians.
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RANK
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METRO
AREA
|
#EMPLOYED
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TOTAL
POPULATION
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1 |
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New
York, NY |
35,000 |
7,323,000 |
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2 |
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LA
to Long Beach, CA |
24,000 |
5,500,000 |
|
3 |
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Chicago,
IL |
19,000 |
2,784,000 |
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4 |
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Philadelphia,
PA-NJ |
18,500 |
1,586,000 |
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5 |
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Washington
DC, MD-VA |
14,000 |
610,000 |
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6 |
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Boston,
MA |
13,500 |
574,000 |
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7 |
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Nassau-Suffolk,
NY |
12,000 |
1,322,000 |
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8 |
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Detroit,
MI |
11,500 |
1,016,000 |
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9 |
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Baltimore,
MD |
9,000 |
736,000 |
|
10 |
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San
Francisco, CA |
8,500 |
724,000 |
|
11 |
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Houston,
TX |
8,500 |
1,631,000 |
|
12 |
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Miami,
FL |
7,000 |
700,000 |
|
13 |
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Anaheim-Santa
Ana, CA |
7,000 |
600,000 |
|
14 |
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Cleveland,
OH |
7,000 |
560,000 |
|
15 |
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Atlanta,
GA |
6,500 |
394,000 |
|
16 |
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San
Diego, CA |
6,500 |
1,111,000 |
|
17 |
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St.
Louis, MO |
6,500
|
397,000
|
|
|
18
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Dallas,
TX
|
6,500
|
1,007,000
|
|
|
19
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Pittsburgh,
PA
|
6,500
|
370,000
|
|
|
20
|
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Seattle,
WA
|
6,500
|
516,000
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SOURCES:
Allied Health Services, Los Angeles Times and Rand McNally
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