PHYSICIANS: Average salary offers to recruited specialists

For the eleventh consecutive year, family physicians topped the list of Merritt Hawkins’ 20 most requested recruiting assignments, underscoring the continued urgent demand for primary care physicians in an evolving healthcare system.”

Each year, the physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins provides aggregate data based on the many recruiting assignments completed during the previous year.  The data in this report cover nearly 3,300 search assignments from the first quarter 2016 to the first quarter 2017.

RECRUITING OFFERS:  Base Salary / Guaranteed Income (average) [Excludes production bonus; excludes benefits]

• $120,000 Physician assistant
• $123,000 Nurse practitioner
• $231,000 Family Medicine
• $240,000 Pediatrics
• $257,000 Internal Medicine
• $263,000 Psychiatry
• $264,000 Hospitalist
• $305,000 Neurology
• $335,000 Obstetrics/Gynecology
• $349,000 Emergency Medicine
• $376,000 Anesthesiology
• $390,000 Pulmonology/Critical Care
• $411,000 General Surgery
• $421,000 Dermatology
• $428,000 Cardiology (non-invasive)
• $436,000 Radiology
• $468,000 Otolaryngology
• $492,000 Gastroenterology
• $563,000 Cardiology (invasive)
• $579,000 Orthopedic Surgery

Source: Merritt Hawkins (2017). 2017 review of physician and advanced practitioner recruiting incentives.  Dallas: MH.  Click here: https://www.merritthawkins.com/physician-compensation-and-recruiting.aspx  Posted by AHA Resource Center (312) 422-2050 rc@aha.org

Salary surveys: CMO makes about $343,000 median in 2011

Chief medical officers earn a median $343,334, and medical directors earn $269,050, according to a 2011 compensation survey conducted among the members of the American College of Physician Executives.  Other positions included in this compensation survey include: CEO, Department chair/division chief, and VP of medical affairs.

Source: Hartung, D.  Physician leaders feel the economic pinch.  PEJ. Physician Executive;37(6):4-8, 10, Nov./Dec. 2011.  For more information click here: http://net.acpe.org/MembersOnly/pejournal/2011/NovemberDecember/Hartung.pdf   Posted by AHA Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org