Here are the eight specialties for which average starting salaries increased over the past year, ranked by percent increase:
Note: Figures are based on 2,458 permanent physician and advanced practitioner search assignments that were ongoing or conducted by Merritt Hawkins/AMN Healthcare’s physician staffing companies from April 2020 to March 2021.
- Physician assistants: +14 percent — from $112,000 to $128,000
- Neurology: +13 percent — from $295,000 to $332,000
- Nurse practitioners: +12 percent — from $125,000 to $140,000
- Noninterventional cardiology: +9 percent — from $409,000 to $446,000
- Pediatrics: +7 percent — from $221,000 to $236,000
- Certified registered nurse anesthetists: +3 percent — from $215,000 to $222,000
- Family medicine: +1 percent — from $240,000 to $243,000
- Psychiatry: +1 percent — from $276,000 to $279,000
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