To compile the report, the commission collected data from 117,280 physician assistants.
The mean salary for the 10 highest paying physician assistant specialties:
1. Dermatology: $126,084
2. Emergency medicine: $123,006
3. Critical care medicine: $122,957
4. Subspecialty surgery: $119,852
5. General surgery: $112,396
6. Hospital medicine: $111,426
7. Pathology: $111,000
8. Radiology: $110,556
9. Other: $109,325
10. Addiction medicine: $108,686
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