Diagnostic Imaging’s annual compensation survey results are in. Find out how your salary compares with other radiologists' and whether they are happy or not with their career choices.Values have been rounded. Data based on U.S. respondents.What about the rest of the people in your department? Find out.2016 Compensation Survey: Radiologic Technologists2016 Compensation Survey: Radiology AdministratorsFind out what’s changed and revisit our 2015 Compensation Surveys.
This year, 397 radiologists responded to our survey.
As widely reported, radiologists continue to be predominantly male with only 13% of females making up the workforce. The average age of our respondents was 51.
Twenty-eight percent of respondents work in a hospital setting, with the next biggest group working in an academic medical center.
One-third of respondents work in a practice with 11â30 radiologists. Eighteen percent of respondents have 31â50 radiologists in their practice.
This year’s respondents were an experienced group. More than 40% of them have been radiologists for 20 or more years.
It’s no 9-5 gig, 71% of our radiologist respondents work more than 40 hours a week.
Radiologist respondents work mostly with CT, MRI, ultrasound, and X-ray. Eighteen percent indicate they have no specialization.
The average salary for radiologist respondents was $443,936. A continuing trend from the 2015 Compensation Survey, which had a mean salary of $427,369, which was up considerably from the 2015 Compensation Survey, which had a mean salary of $355,641.
Most radiologist respondents (38%) don’t receive bonuses or other incentives, but 4% report that more than half of their salary is made up from bonuses and incentives.
Forty-two percent of radiologist respondents report no changes in their income from 2014 to 2015. Ten percent reported a decreased salary of more than 10%.
Radiologist respondents feel almost exactly “average” about their salaries, which an average score of 3.3 on a scale of 1 to 5. But 13% of them are extremely satisfied.
It might come as a surprise to most, but more than half of radiologist respondents are satisfied and extremely satisfied with their career choices. Four percent probably wish they had chosen a different path, as they are extremely unsatisfied.
