Annual compensation earned by U.S. physicians by gender 2020

Published by Frédéric Michas, Jun 11, 2020

This statistic shows the results of a survey regarding U.S. physicians' average annual compensation as of 2020, by gender. According to the survey, female primary care physicians in the United States had earned an annual compensation of 212 thousand U.S. dollars while male primary care physicians earned 264 thousand dollars.

Annual compensation earned by employed and self-employed U.S. physicians as of 2020 (in U.S. dollars)*

Characteristic	Primary care	Specialties
Men	264,000	375,000
Women	212,000	286,000

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Release date

May 2020

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Region

United States

Survey time period

October 4, 2019 to February 10, 2020

Number of respondents

17,461 physicians from 30+ specialties

Method of interview

Email survey

Supplementary notes

* Medscape member physicians currently practicing in the U.S. who participated in the online survey. Compensation is modeled and estimated based on a range of variables, including specialty, age, gender, geographic location, survey year, across 6 years of survey data. The data is also weighted to the distribution of physicians within the AMA database.

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