Recruiting a radiologist.

What does a radiologist 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 radiology salary page has every state, the metro areas and BLS’s caveats.

Radiologists show a BLS mean of $381,530 (BLS, May 2025 release) a year and a median of $420,860 (BLS, May 2025 release), with around 26,770 (BLS, May 2025 release) on payrolls. Diagnostic and interventional radiologists are counted together.

Private groups offer a salary on a partnership track, with partners sharing the professional fees from their hospital contracts and outpatient imaging. Teleradiology jobs often pay per study read or per shift, and candidates compare them on volume expectations, the mix of studies and how much of the work is overnight.

Where do radiologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

Most new hires finish a fellowship after residency

Who employs them

Private radiology groups with hospital and imaging center contracts, investor-backed radiology platforms, teleradiology companies, hospital-employed departments and academic centers.

Who you compete with for candidates

Teleradiology companies offering fully remote work, and platforms that buy practices and offer equity, which pull both new graduates and partners away from independent groups.

Almost every radiology resident completes a fellowship, in neuroradiology, body imaging, breast imaging, musculoskeletal or interventional radiology, and the group's hospital contracts decide which fellowship it needs. Fellows sign about a year before they finish.

Many radiologists hear of openings through fellowship directors and the radiologists they trained with. When a group does post, a line saying how much of the work can be read remotely draws attention at once.

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 radiology position cost?

What the calculator has for radiology

• Revenue one physician brings in: no published figure, so you supply the annual revenue one physician in the specialty brings your organization
• Locum pay: $320 to $360 an hour (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025)
• First-year pay: $381,530 a year (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025)
• Contingency agency fee: 20 to 30% of first-year pay (estimate, MedStaff Nationwide, 2026)

No revenue figure per radiologist is published in the calculator, so the worked example leaves that line to you: the professional fees the position would read, plus what is at stake in the contracts it supports. Turnaround times that slip are what hospitals notice first.

Locum and teleradiology cover cost $320 to $360 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour in physician pay, and many groups also send overnight reads to a teleradiology company under a contract. Both keep studies read; neither keeps the group visible to the hospital's medical staff.

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Which recruiting channels work for radiology?

Flexibility decides searches now. Groups that offer some remote reading days, a fair overnight model and a real partnership track still fill positions against teleradiology; groups that offer none of these struggle.

Questions to ask

• How many days a week could the new radiologist read from home?
• Who covers overnight reads, and is that shared or sent out?
• Which subspecialties do your hospital contracts require?
• Is a sale of the group being discussed, and will you disclose it to candidates?

Which rules bite radiology recruiting?

Imaging is one of the designated health services in the self-referral law, and radiology groups contract with the hospitals and referring physicians whose orders they read, so compensation design matters.

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.