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The radiologist salary is among the highest of all medical professions. Not all radiologists have the same salary of course as like with any other profession, many factors affect how much a particular radiologist makes.
These differentiating factors include
- Location: Radiologists willing to practice in a small remote town earn usually significantly more than their colleagues operating in big cosmopolitan cities. Very few radiologists would want to live in remote areas and so lots of incentives are given to attract radiologists to these areas including but not limited to higher salaries.
- Level of training: Radiologists with subspecialty (fellowship) training can expect to have 20-25% bigger salaries than general radiologists in a big city. Furthermore, not all radiology fellowships translate into similar increase in compensation. In general, the more radiological procedures a radiologist does, the higher the income he or she makes. Accordingly, interventional radiologists usually have the highest salaries among radiologists.
- Type of radiology practice: Academic radiology jobs pay much less than private practice ones. An academic radiologist salary could be 25-50% less than that of a radiologist practising in a general radiology group. The academic university radiologist salary drops even further at the more prestigious universities, such as Harvard or Stanford.
- Radiology experience: Radiologist salary increases in concert with expertise either in small yearly increments in case of academic radiology careers or in one major lump at time of becoming full partners in the private radiology practice group.
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Radiologist Salary