The salary of a physician in the USA is calculated on an annual basis, unlike what we do in Brazil, where we evaluate it on a monthly basis. The amounts received vary according to the specialty and the institution, with the best-paid areas, on average, being the surgical specialties, with special emphasis on plastic surgery and orthopedics.
The average compensation of the main specialties in the USA is listed below:
- Anesthesiology: US$ 378 thousand/year
- Cardiology: US$ 459 thousand/year
- General surgery: US$ 373 thousand/year
- Plastic surgery: US$ 526 thousand/year
- Internal medicine: US$ 248 thousand/year
- Dermatology: US$ 394 thousand/year
- Obstetrics and Gynecology: US$ 312 thousand/year
- Family Medicine: US$ 236 thousand/year
- Emergency medicine: US$ 354 thousand/year
- Nephrology: US$ 311 thousand/year
- Neurology: US$ 290 thousand/year
- Ophthalmology: US$ 379 thousand/year
- Oncology: US$ 403 thousand/year
- Orthopedics: US$ 503 thousand/year
- Otolaryngology: US$ 417 thousand/year
- Pathology: US$ 316 thousand/year
- Pediatrics: US$ 221 thousand/year
- Psychiatry: US$ 275 thousand/year
- Radiology: US$ 413 thousand/year