Doximity Salary Accuracy

[thierryhenry]

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What do you guys think? Recently joined and have been browsing this site. How accurate do you find the salary listing thus far? They seem a bit inflated to me, although I am not an Attending. They do not differentiate based on Academic vs. Private Practice; but what do you the Attendings who use this site think?

Thanks

 

[Handsome88]

Link to salary page?

 

[thierryhenry]

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[RustBeltOnc]

thierryhenry --

I think the numbers are pretty realistic, probably with some over representation of new grads. It would help if they posted ranges.

 

[thierryhenry]

I was wondering more for academic vs. private practice?

Good resource to have then. Thank you.

 

[gutonc]

I was wondering more for academic vs. private practice?

Good resource to have then. Thank you.

Since most docs are in PP (or something like it) and not academic, you should assume that those largely represent the PP salary. I know that for my county, the academic oncology (starting) salary for the university there is ~35% less than what's listed. You also need to realize that this includes salaries across all ranges and probably includes things like non-salary reimbursement.

 

[Handsome88]

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Dang it...Anyway you could screenshot the internal medical specialties' salaries? Or just give us some numbers of major subspecialties (Hospitalist, Cards, GI, PulmCC, Hemonc, Rheum)

 

[thierryhenry]

No

 

[RustBeltOnc]

to follow up on gut onc, the salaries are pretty low if they represent conventional private practice, mid career.

In the onc game in my region, bona fide PP is an endangered species.

However, the doximity survey probably includes everyone --- academics, hospital employed/Kaiser, new grads, etc. It's probably for the best if it is weighted heavy with new grads and non PP --- because the PP option will not exist.

 

[thierryhenry]

to follow up on gut onc, the salaries are pretty low if they represent conventional private practice, mid career.

In the onc game in my region, bona fide PP is an endangered species.

However, the doximity survey probably includes everyone --- academics, hospital employed/Kaiser, new grads, etc. It's probably for the best if it is weighted heavy with new grads and non PP --- because the PP option will not exist.

Thank you for this

 

[CptNemo]

Overall, they seem slightly high for base salaries to me (but not outrageously so). Certainly higher than starting salaries that I've seen for IM and nephrology at the VA, kaiser, or even in private practice (though for hospitalist, very attainable with extra shifts early on)... but they all seem like very attainable figures for people >3 years into their careers in private practice (assuming you can find such a job for a given specialty in a given area).

They write a lot about their methodology, but give very little specific info on how they determine these numbers. However, it incorporates self reported data, so I'd imaging there would be a reporting bias... (ppl with nicer salaries are more likely to participate... or people are more apt to include their total compensation and ignore things like partnership buy-in cost)... kind of like if you just hung around SDN, you would think that national average step 1 scores are ~260 (and 240 is just barely passing)... but not as extreme in this case.

Also, my view may be biased, because most of the ppl that I know are early in their careers, live in CA, and aren't making as much as senior partners, who boost the means... But people should keep in mind that starting salaries in many fields may be radically different, and as RustBeltOnc pointed out, private practice jobs in certain areas may not be available for a given specialty due to saturation or changes in the economics of the field.