About 39% of physicians reported AI proficiency as a factor in hiring or promotion decisions, including 15% who said it was either a “major” or “moderate” factor, Doximity found.
Doximity, a digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, released its 2026 Physician Compensation Report Aug. 25. The report surveyed physicians in June on how AI is changing physician careers and pay, and included salary data from the platform’s dataset of more than 23,000 responses collected in 2025, according to a company news release.
Here is what to know about AI’s impact on physician compensation and workload.
1. Twenty percent of physicians said they are facing higher expectations for productivity due to AI, and 19% said AI will increase demand in their specialty over the next three years. Surgeons are more likely to expect demand to go up.
2. Most physicians reported AI in medicine has either increased their sense of job security or not changed it at all. This was a more common attitude among older physicians compared to those under 30.
3. Around 66% of physicians reported using AI on a daily or weekly basis in their clinical and administrative work, and use was highest among physicians in their 30s. Twenty-six percent of physicians in their 30s said that AI is reducing their workload, compared with 19% in their 40s and 50s, and 14% in their 60s.
4. Most physicians (72%) said AI is not changing the physician’s role in their specialty, though 50% said AI is changing how work is done.
5. Among physicians, 23% expect AI to increase their total compensation within the next 12 months.
6. Roughly 67% of physicians said that providers who stay current with AI tools will have a higher earnings advantage over physicians who do not adopt them. Primary care physicians are more likely than surgeons to use AI and more likely to say that staying current will give them an earnings advantage (67% versus 55%).
7. More than a third of physicians said compensation for a service should change if AI substantially reduces their time or effort of the service, while 43% said compensation should stay the same.
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