Gastroenterologists Overtake Orthopedic Surgeons as Highest-Paid Physician Recruits, AMN Healthcare Report Finds
AMN Healthcare's annual recruiting incentives report finds gastroenterologists now command the highest average starting salary of any physician specialty at $654,000, displacing orthopedic surgeons whose average offer fell 12% to $507,000. Competition for specialists is intensifying: average physician signing bonuses jumped 29% to $49,306, offered in 87% of AMN's searches, and specialists made up 84% of the company's search engagements.
Key figures
- Np avg salary
- 180000
- Pediatrics yoy
- -10.6%
- Avg signing bonus
- 49306
- Signing bonus yoy
- 29%
- Urology avg salary
- 638000
- Urology salary yoy
- 22.5%
- Academic avg salary
- 362000
- Family medicine yoy
- 5.8%
- Pediatrics avg salary
- 231000
- Non academic avg salary
- 452000
- Signing bonus offer rate
- 87%
- Search engagements sample
- 1293
- Family medicine avg salary
- 291000
- Gastroenterology avg salary
- 654000
- Gastroenterology salary yoy
- 18.5%
- Avg signing bonus prior year
- 38215
- Specialist share of searches
- 84%
- Orthopedic surgery avg salary
- 507000
- Orthopedic surgery salary yoy
- -12%
- Physician avg starting salary
- 419000
- Interventional cardiology avg salary
- 650000
- Physician avg starting salary prior year
- 403000
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