Recruiting an allergist.

What does an allergist earn?

BLS's title list counts immunologists in its catch-all group for physicians, as noted above, so the federal survey has no allergy figure. Compare offers with each other, not with that group's averages.

Practice income comes from visits, testing and the allergen extracts prepared for immunotherapy, and partners share in it. Offers usually start as a salary, then move to production pay or partnership, and candidates ask who mixes extracts and how shot clinics are staffed.

Where do allergists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

Most new hires finish a fellowship after residency

Who employs them

Independent allergy practices, multispecialty groups, ear, nose and throat practices offering allergy care, academic centers and health systems.

Who you compete with for candidates

Academic centers for immunology research, and larger allergy groups that can offer partnership sooner in attractive cities.

Allergy and immunology fellows come from internal medicine or pediatrics residencies, and a fellowship class is only a handful of physicians at most programs. Practices hear about graduates through program directors and through allergists they know at meetings.

Because the work is outpatient with little call, location and partnership terms drive decisions. A practice in a smaller city does best by explaining the referral base and the path to ownership plainly.

Every board’s listing, with its posting lengths and how CV access is sold, is in the job board directory; what a physician job posting costs compares them.

The locum agency directory has each agency’s states, malpractice coverage and physician pay where it states them.

What does an open allergy position cost?

What the calculator has for allergy and immunology

• Revenue one physician brings in: no published figure, so you supply the annual revenue one physician in the specialty brings your organization
• Locum pay: $130 to $175 an hour (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025)
• First-year pay: no published figure, so you supply the first-year pay you expect to offer
• Contingency agency fee: 20 to 30% of first-year pay (estimate, MedStaff Nationwide, 2026)

The calculator has no published revenue figure for allergy and immunology, so supply your own collections, including testing and immunotherapy. A practice short an allergist also loses new patient referrals from pediatricians and primary care physicians who stop waiting.

Locum allergists are paid $130 to $175 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour, though shot clinics can often continue under existing protocols while the search runs. Testing and new consults are what stop; established patients on shots are the ones most likely to stay put.

Open the calculator with allergy and immunology chosen

Which recruiting channels work for allergy and immunology?

The fellowship pool is small enough that a single personal introduction can decide a search, so make sure program directors know the practice exists and what it offers.

Questions to ask

• How many new patients a week would the allergist see?
• Who prepares extracts and runs shot clinics?
• When does partnership start, and how is it valued?
• What first-year pay will you offer?

Which rules bite allergy and immunology recruiting?

In-office testing and immunotherapy are where an allergy practice's income comes from, and how that income reaches physicians is what the federal referral rules examine.

Every federal rule this site cites, grouped by what a practice or recruiter is doing, is on the federal rules page. For the contract itself (pay models, tail coverage, restrictive covenants), read the physician employment contract, clause by clause. These notes describe the rules and cite them; they are not legal advice for a particular offer or contract.