HOW MUCH MORE do hospitalist program directors earn than the hospitalists they work alongside every day?
On our most recent annual Today’s Hospitalist survey, we asked hospitalist program directors what kind of pay differential they receive. The mean for all adult hospitalists came in at just under $60,000 ($58,654) a year.
By employer type, the pay differential for program directors was highest at national hospitalist management companies: $69,780. The number was lowest at local hospitalist groups, coming in at $40,667.
Program directors working at large hospitals got the biggest pay bumps. Our data also seemed to show that higher pay for program directors was related to higher levels of career satisfaction.
Here are details on how hospitalist program director pay differentials vary by group type, size and more.
Program director stipends by employer type
• Nat. hosp. mgmt. group: $69,780
• Multi-spec./PCP group: $64,750
• Hospital/hosp. corp.: $54,564
• University/med. school: $41,857
• Local hosp. group: $40,667
Program director stipends by region
• Midwest: $70,824
• Pacific: $63,768
• Northeast: $59,585
• South: $46,179
• Mountain: $44,833
• Southwest: $39,636
Program director stipends by hospital size
• <100 beds: $51,943
• 100-249 beds: $53,843
• 250-500 beds: $60,614
• >500 beds: $79,100
Program director stipends and overall career satisfaction
• Very satisfied: $67,924
• Satisfied: $45,984
• Dissatisfied: $28,000
VIEW DATA ON HOSPITALIST PAY from both the 2024 and the 2023 Today’s Hospitalist Compensation & Career Surveys. Our annual surveys examine how hospitalist compensation is affected by factors such as the type of patients hospitalists treat, the number of shifts they work, the number of patients they see per shift and more.
