Average Salaries for Top Recruited Specialties

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Written by Stephanie Wasek

Friday, 27 June 2008

Orthopedic surgeons are offered the highest average base salaries by hospitals and others recruiting physicians, according to a new report from Merritt, Hawkins and Associates, a physician recruiting firm. The "2008 Review of Physician and CRNA Recruiting Incentives" covers average salaries for its top 20 recruited specialties as well as other recruitment incentives.

Here are the survey's average incomes offered to selected specialties; the figures represent the base salary or income guarantee only, and not production bonus or benefits:

1. orthopedic surgery -- $439,000

2. urology -- $387,000

3. gastroenterology -- $379,000

4. otolaryngology -- $362,000

5. anesthesiology -- $336,000

6. general surgery -- $321,000

7. CRNA -- $185,000

Interestingly, the average offered salary for CRNAs was higher than that for family practitioners, internal medicine physicians and hospitalists.

For more on salaries and incentives, download the 17-page report.