r/medicalsalaries

I've seen this blamed on various entities Reddit hates such as "corporations" or "private equity".

More accurately, the US has a maldistribution due to ironically Doctors being paid **too much** money. A Cardiologist can easily make $400-500k in Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte etc.

Who in their right mind will move to rural Idaho for another $200k? Or Mississippi, or Alaska. What are you even going to do with the extra money there? You're in a frozen hellhole or Mississippi. You get a massive lifestyle downgrade for... essentially not much in the grand scheme of things.

It's the same thing you see that past a certain income, a lot of people choose to work less. Why bother?

Furthermore, a lot of these areas absolutely cannot afford to pay you that much more such as a million dollars a year or many millions due to terrible payor ratios (which would likely be needed to get an orthopedic surgeon or some other highly compensated specialist to give up their lifestyle). Doctors capture **all and sometimes more** of their "surplus value". Hospitalists are paid out of the facility fee in the vast majority of cases.

There isn't infinite money and as the system stands unless supply increases or compensation falls everywhere else. Or the government steps in and drastically increases reimbursement for these areas. These areas will continue to be underserved. Mississippi has 3x less cardiologists per capita as Massachusetts, it isn't Doctors fault. It's the free market working itself out.

Hey guys I know this has been brought up multiple times. But heres a small anecdote that happened yesterday. A recruiter from a major hospital group called me and offered 250-260k for 7/7 hospitalist. I categorically refused it in a big major city. I told him base is 300k nothing less. Literally today he messaged same job base 300k. Stop taking their shit. Fight back. 300-350 is base 380 in rural. No codes no procedures. Fight back.
Fresh grad

You took a deserving, limited med school spot that could have gone to some other doctor slave who can work for society for 70 years!

Becoming a doctor is a calling! Like a religion! You have to work 50-60 hours a week forever to save lives, not to leave with money and to enjoy life!

There is already a physician shortage! Leaving means more work for everyone else and burnout for others! Patients have to wait longer to see a doctor!

Why is it only the tech bros get applause for quitting to play on the beach?

I keep seeing people talk about $300k+ jobs with tons of vacation. Where are these actually at?

I just got my Florida license and the offers have been underwhelming. Urgent care: $120/hr as a contractor, 12-hour shifts, two full weekends a month, malpractice 250k/750k. Primary care: $230k, 22–24 patients a day, no inbox support, 2–3 weeks PTO.

Meanwhile, every listing says “competitive pay” and “generous PTO” with no numbers.

Is this just the Florida market, or am I looking in the wrong places?

I feel like on Reddit I’m constantly being bombarded with ridiculously high attending salaries. I’m just curious for those of you that have noticed your salary actually going down year after year over the past few years..

What has it been like for you from a financial and emotional perspective to see your salary dropping?

I would also like to hear from the people that are having work much harder just to keep the exact same salary that they had the year previously

I am a hospitalist and my salary has been stagnant since I’ve been an attending but I’m curious to hear about other people with decreasing salaries

Online it seems to be difficult to filter the signal from the noise with all the hype around anesthesia as a specialty. I doubt many who do regret it, would spend time here, but if you do, know someone who does, or if there is some downside you were surprised about, please do share why and what else you would have chosen in hindsight (or medicine at all)? As a med student, I am trying to get honest, no BS reality check, which is very difficult to get nowadays with all the hype in med school.

Not interested in people who don’t regret or have nothing to add. Not trying to dismiss you, but plenty of information on that front already available.

Nocturnist

Base 378k , 50k bonus

200 beds , 7-10 admits

Responsible for codes, rapids, cross cover

Open ICU 10 beds

Hello, I am currently getting my AAS in Medical Laboratory Science at a community college. I was gonna go for construction management, but I realized the industry is not for me. I started looking into lab tech, and I enjoy the work they do. However, one thing that bothers me is the pay. Most of the job listings would never reveal the salary, and I need a general idea of how much I would expect starting out. Anyone who has worked or knows someone who has worked as an MLT in Louisiana, how much do you get paid?

Currently a PGY-2 GI fellow interviewing for attending positions.

Northeast practice. Covering one major hospital with 1:6 call. Census is usually light around 10-15 patients. Fellows available in house. Otherwise position is mostly outpatient scopes and clinic.

Base salary: 450k for the first two years. RVU threshold of 6,900 and after that $65/rvu bonus

After the first two years there’s no more base salary and basically you make $65/rvu with no ceiling. Example if you bill 10,000 RVUs(which is do-able but on the higher end) you’d make 650k There’s an option to buy in to the ASC in the third year but the details are kind of sketchy.