Recruiting an otolaryngologist.

What does an otolaryngologist earn?

Otolaryngologists are listed by BLS under Surgeons, All Other, as the panel above explains, so the survey has no ENT series of its own. The group's figures mix many surgical specialties.

Offers usually pair a salary guarantee with a move to production pay, and partners share audiology, hearing aid, allergy and imaging income. Hospital-employed ENT positions pay a salary with call stipends, especially where the hospital needs airway and trauma coverage.

Where do otolaryngologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

New hires come from residency or after a fellowship

Who employs them

Independent ENT groups, investor-backed ENT platforms, hospital-employed groups, academic departments, children's hospitals and multispecialty clinics.

Who you compete with for candidates

Platforms offering equity and support, academic centers for head and neck and skull base surgery, and children's hospitals for pediatric otolaryngologists.

Residents finish a five-year program and some add fellowships in head and neck oncology, facial plastics, rhinology, otology or pediatric otolaryngology. General otolaryngologists can enter community practice directly after residency.

Candidates hear about openings through faculty and alumni and from colleagues at specialty meetings. Practices that explain their audiology and allergy operations plainly stand out, since those services shape a new partner's income.

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 ENT position cost?

What the calculator has for otolaryngology (ENT)

• Revenue one physician brings in: $1,937,500 a year (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019)
• Locum pay: $200 to $250 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)

Hospital revenue per otolaryngologist is published at $1,937,500 (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019) a year in the calculator's survey. Practices with audiology and allergy lose ancillary income during a vacancy as well, so their own figure is a better input.

Locum otolaryngologists are paid $200 to $250 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour. A hospital without ENT coverage transfers airway emergencies and some trauma, which emergency physicians notice immediately.

Open the calculator with otolaryngology (ENT) chosen

Which recruiting channels work for otolaryngology?

Ownership is the question behind most ENT searches now. Candidates want to know whether the practice is independent, owned by a platform, or in talks, and how that affects partnership.

Questions to ask

• How are audiology, hearing aid and allergy income shared with a new partner?
• Who owns the practice, and is a sale being discussed?
• What hospital call does the role include?
• Would a pediatric or head and neck subspecialist have enough volume here?

Which rules bite otolaryngology recruiting?

ENT practices bill imaging and laboratory services and sell hearing devices, so their income sharing and their marketing both touch federal 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.