Recruiting a gastroenterologist.

What does a gastroenterologist earn?

The federal survey cannot answer that directly, as the panel above explains, and no other source in this guide replaces it. Treat any figure a recruiter quotes as that firm's own survey, and ask what it includes.

Packages in this specialty divide into professional pay and ownership income. The first is a salary that becomes production pay; the second comes from a share of an ambulatory surgery center, an anesthesia arrangement or a pathology lab, and it is often what separates one offer from another.

Where do gastroenterologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

Most new hires finish a fellowship after residency

Who employs them

Independent gastroenterology groups, investor-backed gastroenterology platforms, hospital-employed groups, multispecialty groups and academic centers.

Who you compete with for candidates

Private equity platforms offering equity and a signing payment, and health systems offering salary security with their own endoscopy units.

Gastroenterologists finish internal medicine residency and a gastroenterology fellowship, and some add advanced endoscopy, hepatology or inflammatory bowel disease training. Fellows usually decide early in the last year and talk to programs through faculty and alumni.

Postings on the general boards help, but the strongest leads still come from a partner calling fellowship directors and the program's alumni.

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 gastroenterology position cost?

What the calculator has for gastroenterology

• Revenue one physician brings in: $2,965,277 a year (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019)
• Locum pay: $330 to $355 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's survey figure is $2,965,277 (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019) a year to an affiliated hospital per gastroenterologist, much of it from procedures. For a group that owns its surgery center, the loss also includes the center's facility fees for the cases that move elsewhere, so enter your own figure if you can.

Locum gastroenterologists are paid $330 to $355 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour, and an agency adds its margin. With no federal pay series, the agency fee line in the worked example needs the first-year pay you expect to offer.

Open the calculator with gastroenterology chosen

Which recruiting channels work for gastroenterology?

Candidates compare structures as much as salaries. An offer that explains, in writing, how surgery center ownership works and when it starts usually beats a vaguer one with a higher base.

Questions to ask

• When does a new gastroenterologist become eligible for surgery center ownership, and on what terms?
• How many endoscopy days a week does the schedule give a new partner?
• Is a sale to an investor under discussion, and will you tell candidates?
• What first-year pay will you offer, so the agency fee and comparisons can be worked out?

Which rules bite gastroenterology recruiting?

Ownership is where the referral laws meet gastroenterology recruiting: surgery centers, anesthesia arrangements, pathology labs and the pay that flows from each.

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.