The study, Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data, provides data on placement and relocation, starting salary, signing bonuses and other benefits for physicians.
The largest increase in placements between 2006 and 2008 occurred in Virginia and Florida. Several states reported fewer physician placements than relocations, including Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The study also found that the biggest increases in starting salaries for all physicians between 2007 and 2008 occurred in anesthesiology, noninvasive cardiology, emergency medicine and neurology. Physicians getting jobs out of residency reported an increase in median salaries from last year in emergency medicine, infectious disease and hematology/oncology. Except in surgery, starting salaries were highest for physicians entering hospital-department practices.
The survey found little disparity among signing bonuses for physicians a year out of residency or fellowship and all other physicians. Experienced physicians in primary care, cardiology and general surgery reported similar signing bonuses despite their years in practice.
Read the MGMA release on the Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey.
