Are these typical salaries?

[ortho2014]

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public records of rad onc salaries at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and MD Anderson..seems to be a huge range in salaries from nearly half a million to $130,000, even between the Assistant Professors, are the lower range more likely PhDs only (i.e. researchers/teaching radiobiology)? And MD Anderson folks making bank....

UT-Southwestern:
http://www.texastribune.org/library.../departments/radiation-oncology/11873/?page=1

MD Anderson:
http://www.texastribune.org/library...niversity+of+Texas+MD+Anderson+Cancer+Center"

 

[IamnotFreud]

public records of rad onc salaries at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and MD Anderson..seems to be a huge range in salaries from nearly half a million to $130,000, even between the Assistant Professors, are the lower range more likely PhDs only (i.e. researchers/teaching radiobiology)? And MD Anderson folks making bank....

UT-Southwestern:
http://www.texastribune.org/library.../departments/radiation-oncology/11873/?page=1

MD Anderson:
http://www.texastribune.org/library...niversity+of+Texas+MD+Anderson+Cancer+Center"

While I am not in rad onc, I don't think that those salaries are out of the ordinary. The highest one at MD Anderson is the head of the dept so 600+k is not atypical. Our head of depts. are making 600k+ as well in most depts, even the peds dept. head makes over 300k so I don't think it's atypical. Some of the CA hospital heads even in things like medicine, etc. are making well over that - in the 700-800k range.

 

[thesauce]

Ortho2014: It appears that you've just found the radonc forum. Might I suggest that you start with the FAQ that is stickied at the top of the main page? It may be helpful in answering many of your questions.

 

[domestique]

"seems to be a huge range in salaries from nearly half a million to $130,000, even between the Assistant Professors"


If you see a rad onc MD on any of these public databases listed as making $130,000 in a calendar year, they likely were hired at some point during that year (i.e. the number doesn't represent an entire year of compensation). Also, you sometimes see salaries listed in that range when folks are partly in the employ of the VA. Although this is a less common arrangement in rad onc.

 

[radiaterMike]

Many state Universities provide, as public information, the salaries of all of their employees, and the local media outlets publish this in searchable databases.

I suspect that these published salaries do not (for many or all of these databases) include incentive or bonus pay. As a representative case- a database of U Michigan's salaries lists Brady Hoke's (football coach) as 300K, which is his base salary. His actual take home pay (even if he goes 0-12) is 2+ million.

 

[Gfunk6]

MDACC is known for their generous salaries for Rad Oncs. However, it always amuses me when med students or pre-meds point out this fact.

You have to be fairly accomplished (to put it mildly) to even get a staff position at MDACC and to become a section chief or Chair you'd have to be a luminary in our field. Anyone who goes down this route is obviously not motivated primarily by income.