Recruiting an endocrinologist.

What does an endocrinologist earn?

The federal pay survey has no figure for endocrinologists specifically, for the reason given in the panel above. Any number quoted to you comes from a private survey, and its sample and definitions matter.

Endocrinology is a cognitive, clinic-based specialty, so offers rest on visit volume and work units more than procedures. Thyroid ultrasound and biopsy, continuous glucose monitor interpretation and diabetes education programs add income that candidates ask about.

Where do endocrinologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

Most new hires finish a fellowship after residency

Who employs them

Health system specialty groups, academic medical centers, multispecialty clinics, independent endocrine practices and telehealth companies focused on diabetes and weight.

Who you compete with for candidates

Telehealth obesity and diabetes companies offering remote schedules, and academic centers offering focused clinics such as thyroid cancer or pituitary disease.

Endocrinology fellows train after internal medicine or pediatrics residency, and many choose a job by schedule and setting. Fully remote and part-remote positions have changed what they expect from an employer.

Health systems that need endocrinologists in community clinics compete by offering support: diabetes educators, nurse practitioners and pharmacists who take on follow-up visits so the physician sees the complex cases.

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 endocrinology position cost?

What the calculator has for endocrinology

• Revenue one physician brings in: no published figure, so you supply the annual revenue one physician in the specialty brings your organization
• Locum pay: $190 to $230 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)

No revenue figure for endocrinology is published in the calculator, so enter your own collections per endocrinologist. The bigger cost often lands elsewhere: primary care physicians managing complex diabetes without specialist help, and patients who seek care at a competitor or online.

Locum endocrinologists are paid $190 to $230 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour, though few are available for clinic work. Some health systems lean on electronic consults from primary care in the meantime, which answers simple questions but does not shorten the list of patients who need a visit.

Open the calculator with endocrinology chosen

Which recruiting channels work for endocrinology?

Offer what telehealth offers where you can: some remote visits, predictable hours, and a team that handles routine follow-up. Then add what telehealth cannot, such as procedures and complex inpatient consults for those who want them.

Questions to ask

• How long is the wait for a new endocrinology patient today?
• Which follow-up visits could educators or nurse practitioners take?
• Can part of the schedule be telehealth, and is that in writing?
• What first-year pay will you offer, given no federal pay series exists?

Which rules bite endocrinology recruiting?

Endocrinologists order laboratory tests constantly and increasingly prescribe weight loss drugs, so the referral laws and the FDA's warnings both reach endocrinology offers.

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.