Reliable Salary Data for Academic Physicians at one particular University

[Perforin]

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A buddy of mine showed me this the other day. I thought I'd post it after I read a thread about a lot of these doctor salary websites not being legit.

Apparently, in Utah, all public employees have their salaries plastered all over the internet on a site called Utahs Right to Know, including physicians at the University of Utah.

Here the salaries of people at the University of Utah. Good to see the football coach at #2. Quite a wide range. I don't quite understand the huge discrepancies between salaries in the same specialty, but that's the way it is, I guess.

Don't be fooled by the huge salaries at first and think that is the average. They quickly go down.

http://www.utahsright.com/salaries.php?city=u_of_u&query=

Does anybody know if their home state has a similar website? It would be fun to compare data between states?

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Yah every University of Cali employee including all their academic physicians salaries are published, just google it.

 

[Law2Doc]

Don't be fooled by the huge salaries at first and think that is the average. They quickly go down.

I don't know how reliable that site is though -- if you go to the last page, you will find people with single digit annual salaries. Not very likely.

 

[chessknt]

I don't know how reliable that site is though -- if you go to the last page, you will find people with single digit annual salaries. Not very likely.

They may be volunteers in exchange for a title/affiliation or could be getting a comparable benefits package for part-time work. The reported salaries are reliable (or maybe even low if you want to count benefits) as they are state employees and their incomes are a matter of public knowledge.

 

[newdoc2013]

I don't know how reliable that site is though -- if you go to the last page, you will find people with single digit annual salaries. Not very likely.

Funds may be derived from research grants -- not state funding.

 

[PepperMD]

I don't know how reliable that site is though -- if you go to the last page, you will find people with single digit annual salaries. Not very likely.

I got $50 for participating in a Pneumovax trial and since it was through a state university it reported this "income", so it could be situations like that.

 

[DrJD]

Yah every University of Cali employee including all their academic physicians salaries are published, just google it.

Yea, you can easily search for UC doctor's salaries through the Sacramento Bee website.

http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/

 

[ngkats]

Whaaa? On here it says an ENT professor is making close to 1 million annually. I mean, isn't academics supposed to pay substantially less??

 

[Rzarecta]

Whaaa? On here it says an ENT professor is making close to 1 million annually. I mean, isn't academics supposed to pay substantially less??

There are going to be some outliers. I don't see any other ENTs at that level on this list.

 

[Cirrus83]

There's a large drop-off, but the number of Peds docs getting really high salaries is surprisingly large. Also, the list doesn't really tell whether a doctor is academic only or not. A lot of the docs on that list probably work outside of academia (the lower paid ones anyway) as well, and do the academic stuff for the title or ability to do cool research or whatever.

 

[copingmethods]

Also this site for UC employees:
http://www.sfgate.com/webdb/ucpay/

If you look at the details, it breaks up their total pay into "base pay" and "extra pay." I'm guessing the base is their base salary, and extra is how they're compensated for whatever medical care they provide?

 

[DoctorPardi]

Whaaa? On here it says an ENT professor is making close to 1 million annually. I mean, isn't academics supposed to pay substantially less??

Professor is a specific term significant for a senior position at a university. That has to be taken into consideration. A lot of the time professors are chiefs of something or heads of departments as well.

ENT is one of the most difficult specialties to match into, known for paying well. That guy making a million dollars/year went from 1) Highly competitive med student 2) ENT Resident 3) Assistant Professor 4) Associate Professor to finally 5) Professor. Not to mention he was probably dominating the whole way through, performing tons of research, taking on extra administrative responsibilities and so on. Going from assistant to associate could take 4-8 years and going from associate to "full professor" could take longer. So you're talking about a guy who is easily 50 or 60 years old and has been a star his whole career.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if that particular guy was the Chief of Surgery or some other weighty title, in addition to being a professor in the ENT department alone.

 

[Perforin]

I don't know how reliable that site is though -- if you go to the last page, you will find people with single digit annual salaries. Not very likely.

You need to realize that some people just work part time at Universities. A Doctor I know that works at Utah about 10 hours a week makes 70 grand salary from them, but he also works at another institute for about 30 hours a week.

I really don't think the State of Utah would lie about their employee's salaries. Makes no sense, from a legal standpoint. Can't just be publishing lies out there.

 

[DrJosephKim]

I agree that it would be interesting to compare data for each state. What this list doesn't tell you is:

How long have these people held such positions?

Also, why are some people listed to have an annual salary of $4 or $12? That doesn't seem right to me.