To create the survey, Health Media collected over 12,500 responses.
Below are the average yearly salaries for physician assistant and nurse practitioner specialties:
Physician assistants:
1. Gastroenterology: $161,956
2. Orthopedics: $138,188
3. Dermatology: $134,364
4. Emergency medicine: $122,250
5. Anesthesiology: $120,115
6. Pulmonology: $119,518
7. Pain management: $116,067
8. Infectious disease: $114,320
9. Cardiology: $114,226
10. Rheumatology: $113,333
11. Oncology: $110,207
12. Radiology: 110,890
13. Family medicine: $109,485
14. Hospitalist: $108,859
15. Psychiatry: $104,818
16. Urology: $103,760
17. Neurology: $101,228
18. Endocrinology: $99,375
19. Pediatrics: $96,489
Nurse practitioners:
20. Anesthesiology: $166,969
21. Psychiatry: $139,976
22. Pediatrics: $131,302
23. Orthopedics: $123,820
24. Urology: $120,545
25. Emergency medicine: $117,366
26. Hospitalist: $115,512
27. Cardiology: $112,567
28. Radiology: $111,500
29. Gastroenterology: $110,795
30. Oncology: $110,787
31. Pain management: $110,763
32. Endocrinology: $109,058
33. Nephrology: $108,607
32. Pulmonology: $107,153
33. Dermatology: $106,890
34. Family medicine: $106,435
35. Infectious disease: $103,748
36. Neurology: $98,182
37. Rheumatology: $91,240
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