While physician pay is typically higher than, and increases faster than, the average salary, it is not immune from taking dips due to outside factors.
A 2022 report from Weatherby Healthcare compiled primary care physician and specialty physician salary data from the last four years from Medscape, while Doximity chronicled physician assistant salaries.
Here is how salaries have changed over the last three years:
2019
PCP average income: $243,000
Speciality physician average income: $346,000
Physician assistant income: $115,000-$132,000
2020
PCP average income: $242,000
Speciality physician average income: $344,000
Physician assistant income: $118,000-$135,000
2021
PCP average income: $260,000
Speciality physician average income: $368,000
Physician assistant income: $117,000-$133,000
