2006 Anesthesiologist Salary and Employment Survey
 2006 Anesthesiologist Salary & Employment Survey (Printable Format)
THE SALARY SURVEY
LocumTenens.com conducted its Annual Anesthesiologist
Salary and Employment Survey in the early summer of
2006. Survey respondents represent anesthesiologists who practice
on a locum tenens basis as well as those with permanent
salaries. This report includes compensation and
employment statistics for the field of anesthesiology
including:
National annual salary ranges
Sources for finding anesthesiologist jobs
Time frame for making next job change
Influencing factors for seeking an anesthesiology job change
Discussion topics for interviews
Insights and remarks about the practice of anesthesiology today
Demographics of survey respondents
Board status
Gender
Years in practice
Frustrations with the current anesthesiology system
This survey showed that the one of the biggest frustrations with medicine, across all specialties, is that the clinical practice of medicine is controlled by the business aspects. Respondents believe that in the current anesthesiology system, health care decisions are often placed in the wrong hands. Administrators, drug companies, the government and even patients influence too much of the care that is provided, giving the anesthesiologist less control than ever before.
Average Annual Anesthesiologist Salary
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AVERAGE SALARY
2006 Average Anesthesiologist Salary: $309,95 |
| In addition to a salary, 25% of
respondents receive a bonus or other incentive valued at more than $20,000 each year. |
What frustrates you most about the practice of anesthesiology today?
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The top three frustrations are:
#1: Lifestlye issue - too much time at work, not enough to enjoy life.
#2: Reimbursement issues.
#3: Administrative and business agendas interfere with clinincal decisions. |
Source for finding current job
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| #1 Source for finding a new anesthesiology job was networking/word of mouth, followed by internet search/online job boards. |
Time frame for making next job change
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| 7% of respondents have plans to make a job change within the next 3 years, more than half of which plan to do so within the next year. |
Top reason for making a job change
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| 50% of respondents cite better work environment or better community as the top reason for making a job change. |
Worked as a locum tenens provider?
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| 95% of respondents have either worked a locum tenens anesthesiology job or would consider it. |
Demographics of survey respondents
AT A GLANCE:
Survey respondents were:
77% Board Certified, 17% Board
81% Male, 19% female
57% have been practicing for more
Permanent and Locum Tenens
Years in Practice
Board Status
Gender
Aside from compensation and benefits...
During the interview process, anesthesiologists are most interested in learning about the following:
Interaction between anesthesiologists, CRNAs,
surgeons and nurses
Hours, including night and weekend call, volume of cases after 3 pm, day after call off?
Day-to-day work environment
Financial stability of group and relationship with hospital
Staff turnover rate, why did others leave the practice?
Payor mix
Community features, leisure and lifestyle -- quality of schools, affordability of housing
How supportive the hospital is of the anesthesiology group, the surgeons and the OR operation itself
Case mix, volume of cases
Equipment at facility
Quality of surgical staff, malpractice history
Flexibility
When asked "If you had your career to do all over again, would you choose medicine?", 66% of the respondents said that they would.
Choose medicine again?
Compared to other specialties:
When asked if they would choose medicine again, here’s
how the other specialists’ opinions compared:
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Yes |
No |
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| General Surgery |
69% |
31% |
| Orthopedic Surgery |
57% |
43% |
| Radiology |
70% |
30% |
| Psychiatry |
77% |
23% |
| Pediatrics |
70% |
30% |
| Obstetrics/Gyn |
56% |
44% |
| Internal Medicine |
70% |
30% |
If you could change one thing about the practice of medicine, what would it be?
“Return of the focus back to the patient-physician relationship and diminish the influence of commercial third-party payors .”
“The way we get paid.”
“More doctors, less work hours.”
“To always have a choice about how hard or not hard one is willing to work. Most hospital-based practices have little time flexibility.”
“Less business, more medicine.”
“I would return the decision to care for the
patient back to the physician and
not the insurance company.”
More than 14 percent of Americans lacked
health insurance in 2005
– National Center for Health Statistics
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About LocumTenens.com
Founded in 1995, LocumTenens.com is a full-service physician and CRNA
recruiting firm specializing in supplemental placement of anesthesiologists,
radiologists, psychiatrists, surgeons and CRNAs (certified registered nurse
anesthetists) with U.S. hospitals, medical groups and community health centers.
LocumTenens.com is part of the Jackson Healthcare family of
companies.
In addition to full-service recruiting assistance, LocumTenens.com operates
free job boards at www.LocumTenens.com
and www.CRNAJobs.com
which currently have more than
2,000 anesthesiology opportunities posted.
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