Infectious Disease PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

PHYSICIAN JOB MARKET ANALYSIS REPORT: INFECTIOUS DISEASE (PhysEmp Market Intelligence | physemp.com) THE HOOK A specialty that spent the last several years on every cable news chyron in America currently has 41 open physician listings nationwide. Forty-one. For the entire country. The pandemic minted Infectious Disease as the most publicly visible specialty in medicine, and […]
Neurology PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

PHYSICIAN JOB MARKET ANALYSIS REPORT: NEUROLOGY (PhysEmp Market Intelligence | physemp.com) THE HOOK A neurologist in Sacramento can earn up to $500,000 a year. A neurologist in Melville, New York — roughly 2,900 miles east, and presumably treating the same human nervous system — can start at $235,000. Same brain, same board certification, same diagnostic […]
Hospitalist PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

Somewhere in Corning, New York — a town better known for glassware than for medical bidding wars — a hospital is offering a Hospitalist $600,000 a year.
Nephrology PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

PHYSICIAN JOB MARKET ANALYSIS REPORT: NEPHROLOGY (PhysEmp Market Intelligence | physemp.com) THE HOOK Three. Out of forty-nine. That is the number of Nephrology listings willing to put a salary figure in writing — a transparency rate that would make a kidney blush, if kidneys could blush. The rest of the market prefers the time-honored tradition […]
Med-Ped PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

PHYSICIAN JOB MARKET ANALYSIS REPORT: MED PED (PhysEmp Market Intelligence | physemp.com) THE HOOK Arkansas — a state with exactly one Med Ped listing — is currently outpaying every Med Ped job in California and Massachusetts combined. (This is easy, of course, since California and Massachusetts disclosed no salaries at all.) The single Arkansas posting […]
Internal Medicine PhysEmp Salary Report: May 2026

PHYSICIAN JOB MARKET ANALYSIS REPORT: INTERNAL MEDICINE (PhysEmp Market Intelligence | physemp.com) THE HOOK Somewhere in Oklahoma, an Internal Medicine physician is being offered $170,000 to manage the chronic conditions of an entire town. Somewhere in Louisiana, another is being offered $465,000 to do roughly the same thing. Both jobs are listed on the same […]
Staffing Consolidation Reshapes Physician Locum Tenens Landscape

Major acquisitions in healthcare staffing—including Barton Associates’ purchase of LocumsCollective and Knox Lane’s $437 million acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare—signal structural shifts in the locum tenens market. For physicians and APPs, consolidation brings professionalized infrastructure alongside new compensation constraints and reduced negotiating leverage.