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. 2017 Nov;209(5):953-958.
doi: 10.2214/AJR.17.18256. Epub 2017 Sep 5.

Sex Differences in Radiologist Salary in U.S. Public Medical Schools

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Sex Differences in Radiologist Salary in U.S. Public Medical Schools

Neena Kapoor et al. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Nov.

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate salary differences between male and female academic radiologists at U.S. medical schools.

Materials and methods: Laws in several U.S. states mandate public release of government records, including salary information of state employees. From online salary data published by 12 states, we extracted the salaries of all academic radiologists at 24 public medical schools during 2011-2013 (n = 573 radiologists). In this institutional review board-approved cross-sectional study, we linked these data to a physician database with information on physician sex, age, faculty rank, years since residency, clinical trial involvement, National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, scientific publications, and clinical volume measured by 2013 Medicare payments. Sex difference in salary, the primary outcome, was estimated using a multilevel logistic regression adjusting for these factors.

Results: Among 573 academic radiologists, 171 (29.8%) were women. Female radiologists were younger (48.5 vs 51.6 years, p = 0.001) and more likely to be assistant professors (50.9% [87/171] vs 40.8% [164/402], p = 0.026). Salaries between men and women were similar in unadjusted analyses ($290,660 vs $289,797; absolute difference, $863; 95% CI, -$18,363 to $20,090), and remained so after adjusting for age, faculty rank, years since residency, clinical trial involvement, publications, total Medicare payments, NIH funding, and graduation from a highly ranked medical school.

Conclusion: Among academic radiologists employed at 24 U.S. public medical schools, male and female radiologists had similar annual salaries both before and after adjusting for several variables known to influence salary among academic physicians.

Keywords: pay; salary; sex difference.

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