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
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