Recruiting a vascular surgeon.

What does a vascular surgeon earn?

Vascular surgeons are among the specialties BLS's title list assigns to Surgeons, All Other, the group named above, so no vascular series exists. That group's average is too broad to price a vascular offer.

Hospital offers pay a salary or production with call stipends, while practices with office-based labs pay on production and share lab income with partners. Candidates ask about the split between open and endovascular work and who owns the lab.

Where do vascular surgeons look for jobs?

Where new hires come from

New hires come from residency or after a fellowship

Who employs them

Hospital-employed vascular groups, private vascular practices with office-based labs, academic medical centers and multispecialty heart and vascular institutes.

Who you compete with for candidates

Office-based lab companies offering outpatient procedure work, academic centers with complex aortic programs, and hospitals with established heart and vascular institutes.

Vascular surgeons come from integrated residencies or from fellowships after general surgery. Each class is small, and faculty know which graduates want hospital practice and which want outpatient lab work.

Experienced vascular surgeons move for call relief, a better hybrid operating room, or ownership in a lab. A posting that describes the imaging suite, the vascular lab and the call schedule gives them what they need to compare.

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 vascular surgery position cost?

What the calculator has for vascular surgery

• Revenue one physician brings in: no published figure, so you supply the annual revenue one physician in the specialty brings your organization
• Locum pay: $250 to $300 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 publishes no revenue figure for vascular surgery, so enter your own: the hospital admissions, imaging and procedures the surgeon would bring. Patients with critical limb ischemia or aneurysms cannot wait long, so a vacancy usually means transfers.

Locum vascular surgeons are paid $250 to $300 (estimate, Locumstory (CHG Healthcare), 2025) an hour, and hospitals use them to keep call covered. Wound care and dialysis access referrals drift to other surgeons while the seat is empty.

Open the calculator with vascular surgery chosen

Which recruiting channels work for vascular surgery?

Describe the procedures and the equipment. Vascular candidates choose between jobs based on how much open and endovascular work they will do and where they will do it.

Questions to ask

• What share of the work is open surgery versus endovascular?
• Is there a hybrid operating room and an accredited vascular lab?
• Does the practice own or partner in an office-based lab?
• How is call shared, and is it paid?

Which rules bite vascular surgery recruiting?

Office-based labs and hospital stipends both sit close to the federal referral laws, and vascular surgeons work with device makers on stents and grafts.

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.