University of Chicago health economist Joshua Gottlieb, PhD, worked with a research team to create a dataset that links administrative information on physicians to tax records from 2005 to 2017.
Read more from the research brief — “Who Values Human Capitalists’ Human Capital? The Earnings and Labor Supply of U.S. Physicians.“
Here are three more notes on physician earnings:
1. The median physician earns $265,000 per year.
2. More than 25 percent of physicians in 2017 earned more than $425,000.
3. The top 1 percent of physicians earn more than $1.7 million.
