Doximity analyzed 33,000 physician compensation surveys completed between January and December 2023, which contained data from about 150,000 compensation surveys of physicians practicing at least 40 hours a week that were conducted over the last five years.
Here are the 10 specialties that had the highest average annual compensation growth in 2023:
- Hematology: $392,260 | +12.4%
- Family medicine: $300,813 | +10.2%
- Infectious disease: $314,626 | +9%
- Plastic surgery: $619,812 | +8.5%
- Occupational medicine: $317,610 | +8.5%
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery: $603,623 | +8.4%
- Nephrology: $365,323 | +7.7%
- Pediatric emergency medicine: $309,124 | +7.5%
- Oncology: $479,754 | +7.3%
- Psychiatry: $332,976 | +7.2%