A Resident’s Guide to Moonlighting: Finding Gigs, Understanding Pay Rates, and Making It Work
Resident salary covers rent and ramen. It doesn’t cover much else, which is why moonlighting keeps coming up in every resident forum — the question isn’t whether extra income would help, it’s how to actually find it, what it pays, and whether it’s worth the hours you don’t have. Check whether you’re even eligible before […]
RVU Models Shortchange Physicians Through Contract Math
RVU-based compensation models are systematically disadvantaging physicians through hidden contract mathematics including suppressed conversion factors, inflated productivity thresholds, and opaque overhead allocations. As four converging forces reshape physician pay in 2026, understanding contract architecture has become as critical as evaluating headline salary figures.
Urgent Care PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Physician Job Market Analysis Report: Urgent Care Physician PhysEmp Market Intelligence | PhysEmp.com The Hook The single highest-paying urgent care listing in the country right now is in Sunnyvale, California, where a physician can earn up to $410,000 per year to triage sore throats, sprained ankles, and the occasional existential crisis walking in without an […]
Pain Management PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Physician Job Market Analysis Report: Pain Management PhysEmp Market Intelligence | PhysEmp.com The Hook Someone in Eldorado, Illinois, is offering $700,000 annually to manage chronic pain. Someone in Manhattan is offering $300,000 to do the same thing. The Pain Management market currently features 128 active listings across 29 states, with compensation disclosed in only 13 […]
Infectious Disease PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Physician Job Market Analysis Report: Infectious Disease PhysEmp Market Intelligence | PhysEmp.com The Hook A global pandemic ended less than four years ago. The specialty that carried hospitals through it just posted 47 job listings nationwide, and only nine of them bothered to mention what the job pays. Infectious Disease—the field that reads gram stains […]
Hematology-Oncology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Physician Job Market Analysis Report: Hematology Oncology PhysEmp Market Intelligence | PhysEmp.com The Hook Somewhere in Redding, California—a town best known for its proximity to Mount Shasta and its triple-digit summers—a single Hematology Oncology listing is quietly offering up to $870,000 per year. In Brattleboro, Vermont, a listing from the same staffing firm tops out […]
Endocrinology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Physician Job Market Analysis Report: Endocrinology PhysEmp Market Intelligence | PhysEmp.com The Hook Somewhere in Michigan, a hospital is prepared to pay an endocrinologist $400,000 to manage thyroids, titrate insulin, and quietly outearn most of the coastal specialists who assumed geography was destiny. Meanwhile, in Cleveland, a locums desk is advertising the same specialty […]
Burnout or Depression? How Residents Can Recognize What They’re Experiencing and Get the Right Help
“I sleep all day when I’m not on shift and I’m just over it.” That sentence could describe burnout. It could also describe depression. The honest answer is that residents asking this question online usually can’t fully answer it themselves — and shouldn’t have to. But knowing the difference matters, because the right next step […]
Radiology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere in Normal, Illinois, a health system is prepared to pay a radiologist up to $850,000 a year to look at pictures in a dark room.
Urology PhysEmp Salary Report: July 2026
Somewhere in Iowa, a single Urology listing is quietly advertising $900,000 a year.