Physician salaries worldwide by gender 2023| Statista

Salaries of physicians in select countries worldwide in 2023, by gender (in 1,000 U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Male	Female
Portugal	55	34
Brazil	55	36
France	104	73
Germany	176	121
Argentina	24	17
Italy	72	51
Canada	303	219
United States	386	300
United Kingdom	129	102
Spain	64	54
Mexico	20	17

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Release date

October 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

U.S.: October 7, 2022 to January 17, 2023; Outside U.S.: December 21, 2022 to May 31, 2023

Special properties

Full-time practicing physicians, Medscape member physicians

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Number of respondents surveyed were not given in this report. A previous report from 2019 had 25,699 respondents.

The source adds the following:
"Currencies were converted to U.S. dollars, using exchange rates in effect on December 30, 2022.
U.S. data were weighted to the American medical Association's physician distribution by state, specialty, and gender; data for the other countries were not weighted.
U.S. respondents who completed the survey were entered in a sweepstakes for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card."

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According to a survey of practicing physicians in various countries, female physicians generally had lower salaries than their male counterparts. The average male physician in the United States earned 386,000 U.S. dollars while female doctors were paid just 300,000 U.S. dollars. In terms of percentage, the pay gap was widest in Portugal, where male doctors earned over 60 percent more than female doctors.