Orthopedic physicians had the highest salary of 25 medical specialties, earning $414,283 on average, according to MedPage Today's 2018 salary survey results.
The online survey got more than 20,000 responses from physicians, 7,753 of whom included salary information used for the analysis.
Here's how 25 physician specialties in the survey ranked by average salary:
- Orthopedics: $414,283
- Oncology: $410,941
- Cardiology: $400,603
- Urology: $395,000
- Gastroenterology: $387,078
- General surgery: $359,761
- Dermatology: $359,519
- Radiology: $357,292
- Anesthesiology: $356,992
- Critical care: $340,900
- Pain management: $331,506
- Emergency medicine: $323,799
- Pulmonology: $293,651
- OB-GYN: $286,406
- Ophthalmology: $262,687
- Hospitalist: $257,283
- Nephrology: $255,821
- Neurology: $248,404
- Psychiatry: $240,240
- Infectious disease: $220,125
- Rheumatology: $214,396
- Internal medicine: $212,915
- Family medicine: $208,272
- Endocrinology: $208,118
- Pediatrics: $199,616