I am anesthesia trained CCM. I have been out of fellowship for two years. Currently I am working in a private practice MICU. Our group is a mix of medical trained and anesthesia trained intensivists. Everyone is pretty much 100% ICU, including me. A couple of the pulmonary docs at the hospital cover the ICU a week here and there. We are a 300-350 bed hospital in what most would consider the middle of no where. We have a 7 on 7 off model, 7a-7p or 7p-7a. 2 weeks of paid time off. 3 intensivists on during the day, and 2 on at night. I usually see between 10 and 18 patients per day, do procedures and notes, answer pages, talk to families etc. We do have an NP who helps out with procedures and sees patients transferring out of the unit. At night each intensivist usually admits between 3-5 patients and does procedures as needed. (tonight for example, I have admitted 3 patients, done 3 central lines, one a line, and 3 intubations...and answered a bunch of bs pages)
The base pay is 460K (222/hr for 168 hours per month which is 14 twelve hour shifts), they are paying my student loans over ten years. This adds about 45K per year. It doesn't have to be paid back if I leave before ten years. We get paid 1.5x our hourly rate for hours worked above 168 hours per month, or 333/hr. I usually work 1-4 extra per month on a voluntary basis (average an extra 2/month). We also get 9K matching for retirement and have a 403b and 457 plan.
I expect to make about 600-650 this year. the work is hard but I have a good amount of time off. Its a pretty good gig. I live in a city about 2.5 hours away so I travel back and forth and stay for the week when I'm working. When I am at home, though, there are no pages, no phone calls, no meetings, just time with the wife and kids.
