20 Statistics on Income Offered to Recruited Physicians

Here are 20 statistics on guaranteed income or base salary offered to the top 20 recruited physician specialties in the healthcare industry in 2009/10, according to data from Merritt Hawkins’ 2010 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.

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1. Family practice: $175,000
2. Family practice with obstetrics: $200,000
3. Internal medicine: $191,000
4. Psychiatry: $209,000
5. Hospitalist: $208,000
6. Emergency medicine: $247,000
7. Orthopedic surgery: $519,000
8. Pediatrics: $180,000
9. OB/GYN: $272,000
10. Radiology: $417,000
11. General surgery: $314,000
12. Cardiology (non-invasive): $420,000
13. Cardiology (invasive): $495,000
14. Neurology: $281,000
15. Urology: $400,000
16. Gastroenterology: $411,000
17. Anesthesiology: $331,000
18. Pulmonology: $305,000
19. Otolaryngology: $349,000
20. Dermatology: $314,000

Read more about Merritt Hawkins and download the survey on physician recruiting incentives.

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