Recruiting a neurologist.

What does a neurologist earn?

Ranked among the states and the District of Columbia where BLS publishes both the mean wage and the employment figure; 28 of the 51 are left out because BLS withholds or top-codes a figure or has no row. The neurology salary page has every state, the metro areas and BLS’s caveats.

For neurologists, BLS reports a mean wage of $267,630 (BLS, May 2025 release) a year, a median of $248,560 (BLS, May 2025 release), and roughly 10,590 (BLS, May 2025 release) employed. Epileptologists and headache specialists are counted in the same occupation as general neurologists.

Hospital offers usually pair a salary with work unit incentives and a stipend for stroke or consult call. Outpatient roles depend on visit volume and on procedures such as electromyography and electroencephalography reading, which add income the base salary does not show.

Where do neurologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

New hires come from residency or after a fellowship

Who employs them

Hospitals with stroke programs and neurohospitalist services, academic medical centers, neurology groups, multispecialty clinics and telestroke companies.

Who you compete with for candidates

Telestroke and teleneurology services offering remote call, academic centers with subspecialty clinics, and outpatient practices with no inpatient duties.

Residents finish neurology training and a large share take a fellowship in vascular neurology, epilepsy, neurophysiology, movement disorders or neuromuscular disease. Hospitals building stroke certification recruit vascular fellows a year before they finish.

Neurologists weigh the call model above almost everything else, and a posting that explains whether telestroke covers nights reaches more of them.

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 neurology position cost?

What the calculator has for neurology

• Revenue one physician brings in: $2,052,884 a year (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019)
• Locum pay: $225 to $325 an hour (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025)
• First-year pay: $267,630 a year (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025)
• Contingency agency fee: 20 to 30% of first-year pay (estimate, MedStaff Nationwide, 2026)

The calculator lists $2,052,884 (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019) a year to an affiliated hospital per neurologist, a survey estimate driven by imaging, admissions and procedures. An outpatient group should enter its own collections instead.

Locum neurologists are paid $225 to $325 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour. A stroke program that loses neurology coverage may have to transfer patients or lean on a telestroke contract until the seat is filled. Outpatient waits lengthen at the same time, and patients with a new seizure or sudden weakness end up in the emergency department instead of the clinic.

Open the calculator with neurology chosen

Which recruiting channels work for neurology?

Decide first whether the position is inpatient, outpatient or split. A hybrid role is the hardest to fill, and splitting it into a neurohospitalist job and a clinic job often fills both faster.

Questions to ask

• Is the position inpatient, outpatient, or both, and does the posting say so?
• Who covers stroke call overnight?
• How long is the outpatient waiting list for a new patient?
• Which procedures would the neurologist read or perform?

Which rules bite neurology recruiting?

Neurologists order imaging and admit patients, both designated health services, so a hospital's offer must be built within the federal referral rules.

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.