Recruiting a urologist.

What does a urologist earn?

BLS's own title list puts urologists in Surgeons, All Other, the group the panel above describes, so there is no urology pay series. The group's average covers many surgical fields and should not stand in for a urology offer.

Group offers usually start with a salary and move to production pay, with partners sharing income from the practice's ancillary services. Hospital offers add call pay. Candidates ask how ancillary income is divided and how soon they share in it.

Where do urologists look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

New hires come from residency or after a fellowship

Who employs them

Single-specialty urology groups large and small, urology platforms backed by investors, hospital-employed urologists, academic departments and multispecialty clinics.

Who you compete with for candidates

Large groups and platforms with established ancillary services and equity, and hospitals offering security and lighter call in cities.

Urology residents decide in their final year, and some take fellowships in oncology, endourology, female pelvic medicine, pediatric urology or reconstruction. Faculty, attendings from rotations and alumni of the program are the main channels to them.

Practicing urologists move for call, for a partnership share in ancillaries, or when a group sells. Rural hospitals often recruit a urologist with a guaranteed salary and a share of the call with a nearby group.

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 urology position cost?

What the calculator has for urology

• Revenue one physician brings in: $2,161,458 a year (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019)
• Locum pay: $220 to $275 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 shows $2,161,458 (estimate, AMN Healthcare (Merritt Hawkins), 2019) a year to an affiliated hospital per urologist, a survey figure for surgery, imaging and admissions; a group with its own ancillaries loses that income too and should enter its own figure.

Locum urologists are paid $220 to $275 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour. In a rural hospital, a vacancy can mean emergency urology cases are transferred and patients drive long distances for routine procedures.

Open the calculator with urology chosen

Which recruiting channels work for urology?

Be specific about the practice's ancillaries and the call. Candidates compare those details directly, and vague answers suggest the terms will be worse than they hoped.

Questions to ask

• How is income from imaging, pathology or radiation shared with partners?
• How often is call, and is it shared with another group?
• When does partnership start, and at what buy-in?
• Is a sale of the group under discussion?

Which rules bite urology recruiting?

Urology groups bill many of the designated health services the self-referral law lists, so the way they share that income with recruits is the central compliance question.

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.