Legal + Compensation

Here are 11 key statistics about private practice physicians. 

Anesthesiologists in the East and South saw sizable drops in their median wages from 2021 to 2022, according to a June blog post from Tony Mira, Anesthesia Business Consultants' president and CEO.

The COVID-19 pandemic has added complexity to the physician compensation climate, according to a July 11 blog post from the American Medical Association. 

Here are seven key stats on anesthesiologist pay:

While some physician specialists struggled with declining pay in 2022, ophthalmologists saw an average salary of $417,000 in 2022, up from $379,000 a year ago. 

Primary care physicians earn the most in Mississippi, with about $102,000 more in total median compensation than their counterparts in Arizona, who earn the least, according to new data from the Medical Group Management Association.  

From 2019 to 2021, primary care providers and advanced practice providers in the Southern and Western U.S. regions experienced pre-pandemic boosts in compensation, according to new data from the Medical Group Management Association.  

Median provider compensation climbed 3.7 percent from 2020 to 2021, compared with a minor 0.1 percent jump from 2019 to 2020, according to a new survey from the American Medical Group Association.

With healthcare workforce shortages persisting as a significant problem for hospitals and health systems, it is important to look at how physician compensation has been evolving.