Pediatric Cardiology Salary

[Osmosis_JonesDO]

Hello,

I am sorry in that I know that salary topics are taboo and frowned upon. I am trying to decide my life path and unfortunately that includes getting over the hurdle of around $400 grand in student loans.

I think I would really love pediatric cardiology, I have interacted with a handful of these specialists and and they all say they love their career and have no regrets. I also just finished a NICU audition and am drawn to congenital heart disease, I love the complexity and ability to change and save lives. I wish money were not a deciding factor in these decisions, but with so much at stake I would really like an honest answer. I have seen ranges from different online sources citing peds cards makes $200k and to around $300k, and even some residents saying $400k. ERAS opens next week for me and unfortunately I am torn, if money were no issue I wouldn't even be questioning my decision to go into peds, but unfortunately that is not the reality. I would be really appreciative if anyone could give me accurate ranges of what I could expect to earn if I choose to go down this path. Thank you very much

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[mytirf]

bottom line is if you are going to work in private practice versus academic medicine. Big difference in compensation. NICU is probably the only pediatric speciality that is on-par with high earning medical specialities. I wouldn't want to do anything else besides cardiology because at the end of the day I can't see myself doing anything else.

 

[pigsinacloth]

There are some good articles out there regarding lifetime earnings of different pediatric subspecialties in academic medicine and one that also compares pediatricians to their adult counterparts. I attached the table here. The data is obviously slightly different year to year and depending on calculations. For example I don't believe they ever separated out pediatric interventional cardiology and pediatric EP from the group. Those two groups could possibly skew the overall group in terms of salary, but they also generally come with an additional year of training. I attached the files and screenshot comapring adult medicine to pediatrics.

 

[SurfingDoctor]

Pulmonologist makes less than a Pediatric Intensivist?

 

[HemeOncHopeful19]

It wouldn't shock me for pure Pulm and not Pulm/CC.

 

[Stone Cold]

Pulmonologist makes less than a Pediatric Intensivist?

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Here's a report from 2018 MGMA which I believe is more accurate. Unsure if anything changed due to covid

 

[Stone Cold]

There are some good articles out there regarding lifetime earnings of different pediatric subspecialties in academic medicine and one that also compares pediatricians to their adult counterparts. I attached the table here. The data is obviously slightly different year to year and depending on calculations. For example I don't believe they ever separated out pediatric interventional cardiology and pediatric EP from the group. Those two groups could possibly skew the overall group in terms of salary, but they also generally come with an additional year of training. I attached the files and screenshot comapring adult medicine to pediatrics.


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Where's NICU in this list?

 

[pigsinacloth]

Where's NICU in this list?

For the screenshot I had included in the initial post it looks like they did not include it, but it is in this graphic is from one of the other papers that I attached. It's not a perfect comparison because the data is from different years, but it came from the same group so they use very similar models, if not the exact same (I read these a while ago so I don't remember if they changed things up slightly). I am also just a med student so when I hear neonatology I think NICU, but please correct me if that is not true.