Annual Compensation and Placement Summary
Which physician and advanced practice clinician specialties are in the highest demand, and how should your recruitment strategy adapt? This report breaks down 2025 placement activity, compensation benchmarks, specialty demand, and emerging workforce patterns across the country. Learn which specialties continue to drive hiring, where salary and signing bonus pressure is rising, how geography and community size influence placements, and what is shaping recruitment in high-demand areas like primary care, surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, and radiology.
- 4.16.2026
- Abigail Crock
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Healthcare organizations are hiring in a market shaped by persistent workforce constraints and rising compensation pressure. This year's summary breaks down where placement activity and compensation are heading across specialties, regions, and practice settings.
What you'll learn from this year's compensation and placement data:
- How placement trends are shifting by specialty, region, practice setting, and community size, and what those shifts mean for your recruitment strategy.
- Why primary care continues to lead placements, representing 31.5% of all placements in 2025.
- Where compensation pressure is intensifying, with surgical, internal medicine subspecialty, and hospital-based roles leading annual salary benchmarks.
- How signing bonuses, salary growth, and earning potential vary across specialties like gastroenterology, cardiology, OB/GYN, family medicine, and general surgery.
- Why rural and small-city markets often require stronger financial packages compared with major metro markets.
- How hiring patterns differ between in-practice and in-training physicians, and what that means for near-term and long-term workforce planning.
- What the latest data shows across primary care, surgical specialties, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology, anesthesiology, and radiology, so you can benchmark offers more effectively.
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