Here are the five specialties that showed the highest gain in salary offers from 2009-10 to 2010-11 from Merritt’s “2011 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.” The statistics listed are average income offers:
Urology in 2009-10: $400,000
Urology in 2010-11: $453,000
Percent Increase: 13 percent
Internal Medicine in 2009-10: $191,000
Internal Medicine in 2010-11: $205,000
Percent Increase: 7 percent
General Surgery in 2009-10: $314,000
General Surgery in 2010-11: $336,000
Percent Increase: 7 percent
Invasive Cardiology in 2009-10: $495,000
Invasive Cardiology in 2010-11: $532,000
Percent Increase: 7 percent
Anesthesia in 2009-10: $331,000
Anesthesia in 2010-11: $355,000
Percent Increase: 7 percent
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