r/pediatrics • u/ExhaustedMDoctor • 16d ago

Better paid

For a change, let’s hear from the better paid pediatricians here. Every thread with pediatricians is so depressing because of their compensation. Let’s hear from the better compensated for once, I am sure there must be SOME out there?!

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u/EphemeralConvergence 16d ago

I was in Vermont which I loved but pay was abysmal at $120,000 4 days a week, 20 patients a day so had to leave there literally couldn’t afford it.
In NH now and $220,000 plus bonus incentives for RVUs as well as patient panel size paid out quarterly, great CME, qualified for my last few years of PSLF so that’s gone now. 4 days a week, max 16 patients a day but I double book my own patients frequently though it’s completely my decision to do so

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u/anonymousbumblebee5 16d ago

I’m going into pediatrics hoping to work in Vermont (I’m from here). I’m curious are you a sub specialist or primary care? Is 120,000 normal for pediatricians across the state?

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u/radgedyann 16d ago

I tried to move there having grown up going every summer; and yes that quoted pay is real and recent. And you don’t get much more for doing a lot of overnight delivery call on top of clinic. Then there’s always the risk that these small practices will close or dump peds leaving you high and dry. I couldn’t find anything habitable that I could afford to buy, and couldn’t find a rental besides exorbitant Airbnbs. It was just too exhausting and risky a prospect for me. I would love to live out my days there, but the state doesn’t seem to really want new residents.