{"id":6545,"date":"2025-04-23T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=6545"},"modified":"2025-04-23T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:17:54","slug":"radiology-rises-to-no-2-highest-paid-specialty-medscape-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/radiology-rises-to-no-2-highest-paid-specialty-medscape-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiology Rises to No. 2 Highest Paid Specialty (Medscape Survey)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Radiology Rises to No. 2 Highest Paid Specialty (Medscape Survey)<\/div>\n
Source: Medscape<\/div>\n
Date: April 14, 2025<\/div>\n
Highlighted by MDPI.<\/div>\n
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1. Radiology is now the No. 2 highest paid medical specialty in the U.S., according to the 2025 Medscape Physician Compensation Report.<\/span><\/div>\n
2. Average annual income for radiologists: $520,000, including salary, bonuses, and profit-sharing.<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Top 5 specialties by compensation:<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Orthopedics: $543,000<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Radiology: $520,000<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Plastic Surgery: $516,000<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Cardiology: $506,000<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2022 Anesthesiology: $499,000<\/span><\/div>\n
4. This is radiology\u2019s highest ranking since 2012, and the first time since then it surpassed both cardiology and plastic surgery.<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Year-over-year increase for radiology: +4%; nearly +49% since 2011 (when average pay was $350,000).<\/span><\/div>\n
6. Driving factor: High demand and radiologist shortages, especially with rising imaging volumes.<\/span><\/div>\n
7. Regional variation: Highest compensation found in the West North Central U.S. (avg. $421,000).<\/span><\/div>\n
8. Gender pay gap: Largest ever in the survey\u2019s history \u2013 $98,000 difference between male and female physicians.<\/span><\/div>\n
9. Overall physician compensation increase: +3.6% this year \u2014 one of the smallest gains recorded by Medscape.<\/span><\/div>\n
https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/slideshow\/2024-compensation-radiologist-6017156<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Radiology Rises to No. 2 Highest Paid Specialty (Medscape Survey) Source: Medscape Date: April 14, 2025 Highlighted by MDPI. 1. Radiology is now the No. 2 highest paid medical specialty in the U.S., according to the 2025 Medscape Physician Compensation Report. 2. Average annual income for radiologists: $520,000, including salary, bonuses, and profit-sharing. 3. Top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6545\/revisions\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}