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Starting physician compensation for medical specialists was mostly up from 2018 to 2019, while the salaries of primary care physicians plateaued, according to a recent Merritt Hawkins report.
The physician search and recruiting firm’s 2019 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives showed that most specialties saw year-over-year increases in starting physician compensation, with increases ranging from 20.0 percent for urology to 0.5 percent for hematology and oncology.
In general, medical specialties experiencing the greatest demand also saw the largest boost in starting salaries, revealed the data from a sample of over 3,000 physician and advanced practitioner recruiting engagements.