Salary, Contracts & Career
for Physicians

Your income drives every other financial decision, and physicians have more say over it than many realize. How a contract is written, how productivity is measured, and where and how you practice can each move pay by tens of thousands of dollars a year.

These guides cover physician salary by specialty and state, how wRVU-based pay works, the contract terms worth negotiating, locum tenens and side income, and owning a practice. Salary figures name their source survey and year, because surveys measure different groups of physicians and don’t always agree.