The new Medscape Physician Compensation Report identified internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics as the lowest earners in medicine (each with an average of less than $165,000 per year). I wanted to compare these results to the updated information from the Cejka Search group who publish data on the salaries of allied health professionals. The Cejka Database is the best place I have found for reliable information about the salaries of allied health practitioners. The list of allied health workers is long and includes:
- Nurse Practitioners (NP)
- Certified Nurse Aneasthatists (CRNA)
- Physicians Assistant (PA)
- Podiatrist (DPM)
- Occupational Therapist (OT)
- Physical Therapist (PT)
- Optomotrist (OD)
- Psychologist (PhD)
- Dentist (DMD or DDS)
- Midwife
Cejka reports the following salary information for these allied health professionals. As you can see, CRNAs and Dentists earn more money than our country’s primary care physicians (pediatricians, family physicians, general internists). This is just the yearly salary information, not taking into account the number of hours worked. Very few allied health professionals work the average hours per week worked by primary care physicians in the US (60 hours is a very conservative estimate for our PCPs). This means the dollars per hour is vastly different between some allied health practitioners and our primary care doctors. How do you feel about this?
From Cejka Search
My name is Andrew and I am a first year resident training to be an ophthalmologist. I created ShortWhiteCoats to provide medical students, residents, and the public with all the information I spent so many hours looking for during medical school.
