Realistic information regarding Peds salary

[Penn2022IHope]

Hello everyone!
I am getting close to applying to residency myself, and I find myself torn between pediatrics (generally) and a surgical subspecialty, in a pediatric population. It is very difficult to find accurate information about salaries of a gen peds physician or say a specialist (Heme Onc if I had to pick). I know this decision should not be financial in its entirety, but I am in a great deal (and I mean a great deal) of debt, so it is definitely part of the picture for me. Can anybody throw some numbers around--particularly in the northeast?

Thank you.

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[FalconSlice]

Hello everyone!
I am getting close to applying to residency myself, and I find myself torn between pediatrics (generally) and a surgical subspecialty, in a pediatric population. It is very difficult to find accurate information about salaries of a gen peds physician or say a specialist (Heme Onc if I had to pick). I know this decision should not be financial in its entirety, but I am in a great deal (and I mean a great deal) of debt, so it is definitely part of the picture for me. Can anybody throw some numbers around--particularly in the northeast?

Thank you.

You're definitely going to get some extreme ranges from 150k-350k is my general feeling. Depends on so many things (academic institution vs. private practice, urban vs. rural, patient population, insurance reimbursement infrastructure, volume, competition, etc.).

On a more bigger picture issue, in my non-comprehensive experience, the first branch-point is surgery vs. non-surgery specialties. Peds vs. surgical subspecialty are more than polar opposites... just a thought.

 

[WheezyBaby]

Outpatient gen peds 180-300 depending on payer mix and how well oiled the practice is to maximize patients seen per day. Private hospitalist 200ish. Academic hospitalist 150-200. NICU/PICU on the high end of peds subspecialties at 200-300 range. Heme/onc don't have first hand salary knowledge but it's essentially exclusively academic; my understanding is 150ish, and a very tight job market.

Compared to most other fields in medicine, very little. The idea of a pursuing a nonpeds field and doing a peds fellowship is one that I encourage most students interested in peds to think about - not for financial reasons but just because I think a lot of them bucket into "want to take care of kids = peds" when there are other options and I want to make sure they choose whatever path is right for them. Do have to keep in mind what the likelihood of matching into a peds fellowship is with your initial residency though (eg peds surg being extremely competitive). Likewise, if you're only interested in caring for kids, doing 5 years of mostly adult medicine is probably... Unpalatable