Becker's Physician Leadership

U.S. physicians earned an average of $386,000 in 2025, according to Medscape’s April 10 “Physician Compensation Report.” Physicians in Canada reported average total compensation of 394,000 Canadian dollars, or about $283,000, according to Medscape’s Sept. 29 “Canada: Physician Compensation Report…

The average starting salary for all physicians has hit $419,000 in 2025-26, according to a Sept. 16 white paper from AMN Healthcare.  On top of base salaries, signing bonuses were offered in 87% of physician search engagements in 2025-26, averaging…

Public Service Loan Forgiveness has long been one of the few financial incentives pulling physicians toward the places that need them most: rural towns, urban cores, federally qualified health centers and lower-paying specialties such as family medicine and pediatrics.  Marc…

A federal bill introduced Sept. 16 would do more than bar private equity firms from owning physician practices. It targets the management services organization structure PE-backed platforms have used to operate in corporate practice of medicine states, and it would…

More than one-third of U.S. counties have no general surgeon, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.  The study mapped surgeons across 12 surgical specialties in every U.S. county, using April 2025 data…

Deeptee Jain, MD, knows what every payer she works with pays her for every procedure she performs. She wishes she didn’t have to. Dr. Jain trained to become a spine surgeon, not to study payer contracts, collections or practice overhead.…

Most rural physician vacancies are identified late and never formally priced, according to a survey of rural healthcare administrators and clinicians from Jackson Physician Search, LocumTenens.com and MGMA. Three-quarters of administrators surveyed reported a consequential physician vacancy in the past…

About 7 in 10 physicians report receiving a continuing medical education allowance, but only 6.7% of physician job listings publish its dollar value, according to a Sept. 24 analysis from clinician salary and job listing platform Marit. The analysis covers…

Female physicians now earn $327,000 a year on average, up from $309,000 just two years ago. However, that progress has not dented the gap with their male counterparts, who average $429,000 per year, according to a new report from Medscape. …

Marc Ayoub, MD, founded Saile to address a problem that often goes overlooked in discussions of the clinician workforce: the time it takes clinicians to get credentialed and connected to available work. Dr. Ayoub, a neurocritical care physician, said he…