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RadBoard Market Intelligence · Report No. 05
The September Pulse:
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| Employer type | Live roles | Disclose pay | Median comp | Partnership track | AI mentioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital system | 1,380 | 45.4% | $577,866 | 9.3% | 15.1% |
| Independent practice | 1,244 | 74.7% | $612,500 | 63.5% | 23.0% |
| Academic | 749 | 39.9% | $501,000 | 4.4% | 16.4% |
| Staffing / locums | 631 | 27.3% | $600,000 | 11.9% | 6.8% |
| PE-backed | 392 | 87.8% | $600,000 | 62.0% | 32.1% |
| Government / VA | 97 | 60.8% | $375,000 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Source: RadBoard.io · live roles, Sep 10, 2026 · Analysis: xAID.ai
The gap between the academic median ($501,000) and the independent-practice median ($612,500) is the widest structural pay spread in the dataset — and academic roles also offer partnership in 4.4% of cases versus 63.5%.
988 live remote roles (21.8% of the market). Source: RadBoard.io
2,812 of 4,531 live roles state how compensation is structured. The structure decides whether your earnings move with volume — and it splits cleanly by employer type.
| Compensation model | Live roles | Share of stated | Median comp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed salary | 1,290 | 45.9% | $560,000 |
| Salary + incentive | 1,048 | 37.3% | $610,000 |
| Hybrid | 275 | 9.8% | $566,342 |
| Eat-what-you-kill | 166 | 5.9% | $625,000 |
| Pure RVU | 32 | 1.1% | $662,500 |
2,812 roles state a model; 1,719 do not. Source: RadBoard.io · Analysis: xAID.ai
Fixed-salary roles advertise a median of $560,000. Eat-what-you-kill roles advertise $625,000 and pure RVU roles $662,500. The market pays for volume risk — and the roles that transfer that risk to the radiologist are still a small minority of what is advertised.
96 live roles state a $/wRVU rate and 240 state an annual wRVU expectation. That is a disclosure rate of 2.1% and 5.3% — thin, and deliberately reported here as a directional benchmark rather than a market median.
| Employer type | Roles with a rate | Median $/wRVU |
|---|---|---|
| Independent practice | 66 | $49.00 |
| Staffing / locums | 18 | $51.00 |
| Hospital system | 8 | $47.50 |
| PE-backed | 3 | $40.00 |
Cuts under 20 disclosures are shown with their n and should not be read as market rates. Test your own rate: radboard.io/rvu-calculator
Each row compares live roles that carry the attribute against the rest of the market, on the same midpoint-of-advertised-range basis.
| Attribute | Live roles | Median comp | 90+ days open |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remote / teleradiology | 988 | $600,000 | 29.0% |
| On-site | 3,543 | $575,000 | 35.4% |
| Partnership track offered | 1,270 | $610,000 | 39.4% |
| No partnership mentioned | 3,261 | $560,000 | 31.9% |
| AI tooling mentioned | 787 | $615,500 | 32.7% |
| No AI mention | 3,744 | $575,000 | 34.3% |
| Explicitly call-free | 568 | $592,382 | 33.8% |
| Takes call (stated) | 569 | $600,000 | 35.9% |
| Visa sponsorship offered | 244 | $600,000 | 41.0% |
Source: RadBoard.io · live roles, Sep 10, 2026 · Analysis: xAID.ai
Roles that explicitly promise no call advertise $592,382 against $600,000 for roles that state call — a $7,618 gap, well inside the noise of advertised ranges. Employers are not buying call back with a visible premium; they are competing on it as a lifestyle feature instead. Note that only 25% of live roles say anything about call at all, so this compares the two disclosing quarters, not the whole market.
39.4% of partnership-track chairs have been advertised 90 days or more, against 31.9% of the rest. The roles with the most attractive long-run economics are also the hardest ones to fill — they ask for a multi-year commitment in a market where the median advertised vacation is ten weeks and remote work is available at 21.8% of chairs.
Days since a role was first seen, measured on live roles only.
| Age of live openings | Roles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Median days advertised | 46 | — |
| Mean days advertised | 75 | — |
| Advertised 90+ days | 1,542 | 34.0% |
| Advertised 180+ days (whole tracking window) | 675 | 14.9% |
| Postings removed in the last 90 days | 15,845 | — |
The 90-day share is not spread evenly. Hospital systems, independent practices and academic centres carry almost all of the long-open inventory; staffing desks and PE-backed groups cycle their listings fast enough that very little of their advertising is old.
Read those last two rows carefully. A low ageing share is a re-listing habit, not proof of faster hiring: staffing platforms and PE groups refresh URLs, which resets the first-seen clock. The employer types that keep one stable advert per chair — hospitals, independents, academia — are the ones whose true vacancy age is visible at all.
Source: RadBoard.io · Analysis: xAID.ai
In the 30 days to September 10 the market added 4,526 new postings and removed 5,266. Net inventory is shrinking slowly while the oldest third of it does not move at all — the definition of a market that is advertising less without clearing its backlog.
Volume and pay do not overlap. Florida, California and New York carry the most openings; Connecticut, Iowa and Texas pay the most.
| State | Live roles |
|---|---|
| Florida | 366 |
| California | 276 |
| New York | 252 |
| Texas | 250 |
| Pennsylvania | 240 |
| Ohio | 229 |
| North Carolina | 206 |
| Illinois | 169 |
| Massachusetts | 137 |
| Georgia | 126 |
| State | Median comp |
|---|---|
| Connecticut | $775,000 |
| Iowa | $726,250 |
| Texas | $662,500 |
| Michigan | $662,250 |
| Kentucky | $649,500 |
| Tennessee | $649,500 |
| North Carolina | $649,500 |
| South Carolina | $637,250 |
| Pennsylvania | $632,500 |
| Indiana | $618,750 |
Source: RadBoard.io · states with at least 20 disclosed salaries · Full interactive map: radboard.io/map
California and New York rank top-three by volume but appear nowhere in the top ten by pay. The premium sits in states that must import radiologists — Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, the Carolinas.
Volume alone hides how differently these markets behave. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts advertise heavily but disclose pay rarely and let chairs sit; Washington and Illinois disclose pay in roughly three roles out of four; Texas combines the highest median of any large market with average ageing.
| State | Live roles | Disclose pay | Median comp | 90+ days open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 366 | 48.9% | $600,000 | 28.4% |
| California | 276 | 71.7% | $546,250 | 31.9% |
| New York | 252 | 61.9% | $512,500 | 34.5% |
| Texas | 250 | 52.0% | $675,000 | 31.2% |
| Pennsylvania | 240 | 37.5% | $625,000 | 42.5% |
| Ohio | 228 | 49.6% | $595,000 | 36.8% |
| North Carolina | 206 | 46.1% | $649,500 | 35.4% |
| Illinois | 169 | 72.2% | $600,000 | 33.7% |
| Massachusetts | 137 | 62.8% | $500,000 | 46.0% |
| Georgia | 126 | 49.2% | $600,000 | 36.5% |
| Washington | 121 | 78.5% | $531,329 | 33.9% |
| Indiana | 121 | 46.3% | $643,750 | 24.8% |
| New Jersey | 120 | 65.8% | $600,000 | 32.5% |
| Virginia | 109 | 51.4% | $596,746 | 40.4% |
States with 80 or more live roles. Source: RadBoard.io · Interactive map: radboard.io/map
46.0% of live Massachusetts chairs have been advertised 90 days or longer — the worst ageing of any state with more than 100 openings — while its median advertised pay, $500,000, is the lowest of the fourteen. Indiana is the mirror image: 24.8% aged, $643,750 median. Where pay is competitive, chairs close.
| Subspecialty group | Live roles | Median comp |
|---|---|---|
| Interventional | 127 | $649,500 |
| Neuroradiology | 73 | $649,500 |
| Breast imaging | 119 | $600,000 |
| Body / abdominal | 99 | $600,000 |
| Teleradiology | 54 | $575,000 |
| Musculoskeletal | 49 | $550,000 |
| General / not specified | 4,011 | $575,000 |
Source: RadBoard.io · Test your own rate: radboard.io/rvu-calculator
Employers tag roles inconsistently — "IR", "interventional" and "interventional radiology" are the same job. Merging synonymous tags gives a cleaner picture of where the demand actually sits. Counts only: merged tags cannot be pooled into a single honest median.
Merged synonymous tags across 4,531 live roles; most postings carry no subspecialty tag at all. Source: RadBoard.io
Nearly nine in ten live roles carry no subspecialty tag or a general one, yet interventional and neuroradiology roles advertise a median $75,000 above general work. Groups are hiring for the reading list they have, not the fellowship they would prefer — which is exactly why sub-specialised candidates negotiate from strength.
Everything below is mention-based: a blank is a posting that stayed silent, not an employer who withholds the benefit. Read the counts, not the absences.
| Term stated in the posting | Live roles | Share of market |
|---|---|---|
| Malpractice cover mentioned | 2,527 | 55.8% |
| Partnership track | 1,270 | 28.0% |
| Relocation assistance | 1,118 | 24.7% |
| Vacation stated (median 10 weeks) | 1,033 | 22.8% |
| Protected academic / admin time | 705 | 15.6% |
| Loan forgiveness | 674 | 14.9% |
| Sign-on bonus (median $75,000) | 614 | 13.6% |
| Explicitly call-free | 568 | 12.5% |
| Visa sponsorship | 244 | 5.4% |
| CME allowance stated (median $4,500) | 213 | 4.7% |
| Licensure pathway support | 53 | 1.2% |
Source: RadBoard.io · live roles, Sep 10, 2026 · Analysis: xAID.ai
PE-backed groups advertise the largest sign-on bonuses in the market, a median $100,000 against $75,000 at independent practices and $50,000 in academia — and they pair it with the lowest published $/wRVU rate of any employer type. That is a recruitment-cost model: pay to sign, recover on production.
Median stated sign-on bonus among the 614 live roles that name one. Source: RadBoard.io
244 live roles advertise visa sponsorship — 5.4% of the market. Academic centres carry the sponsorship burden almost alone at 12.7% of their postings, against 5.2% at hospital systems, 5.4% at PE-backed groups, 3.5% at independent practices and 1.7% at staffing desks. Sponsored roles advertise a median $600,000, above the market median, and 41.0% of them have been open 90 days or longer — the highest ageing of any attribute measured in this report.
Employers overwhelmingly reach for a visa after a chair has already failed to fill domestically: sponsored roles are the oldest cohort in the dataset. With IMLC licensure and credentialling lead times added on top, an employer starting sponsorship today is planning around a chair that stays empty well into 2027.
1,869 live roles describe a schedule. Monday-to-Friday dominates at 959 postings; block schedules follow far behind — 7-on/7-off appears in 86 postings once spelling variants are merged, 7-on/14-off in 37, and a four-day week in 29. By shift type, 982 roles are day-only, 131 advertise overnight cover, 100 evening and 70 night. Overnight and night work together account for barely 4% of what is advertised, which is why night coverage remains the single most expensive gap for groups to close internally.
Unlike competitors who only flag pathologies, xAID delivers a full report — so your radiologists review instead of dictating. That lifts CT reporting capacity by up to 50%, not just detection rates. If you are turning away volume because you cannot hire, that is the revenue this recaptures.
And you get the full report at the price of narrow AI — the same budget line as a single tool that only flags, so the comparison is like-for-like.
| Employer / platform | Live roles | Share of market |
|---|---|---|
| Radiology Partners | 268 | 5.9% |
| Weatherby Healthcare | 102 | 2.3% |
| CompHealth | 90 | 2.0% |
| Medicus Healthcare Solutions | 43 | 0.9% |
| Optimum Permanent Placement | 41 | 0.9% |
| Cleveland Clinic | 39 | 0.9% |
| Global Medical Staffing | 37 | 0.8% |
| Radiology Associates of North Texas | 33 | 0.7% |
| Curative | 31 | 0.7% |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 31 | 0.7% |
| Imagen Technologies | 31 | 0.7% |
| MUSC Health | 30 | 0.7% |
The composition of that list is the story. Six of the twelve are staffing and placement desks rather than employers of record — Weatherby, CompHealth, Medicus, Optimum, Global Medical Staffing and Curative — and none of their listings has been advertised for 90 days, because those desks refresh postings continuously. The health systems on the list behave in the opposite way: 56.4% of Cleveland Clinic's chairs and 73.3% of MUSC Health's have been advertised three months or longer.
| Largest advertisers | Live roles | Remote | 90+ days | Median comp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology Partners | 268 | 123 | 0.0% | $600,000 |
| Weatherby Healthcare | 102 | 26 | 0.0% | n/a |
| CompHealth | 90 | 19 | 0.0% | $650,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic | 39 | 14 | 56.4% | $595,000 |
| Radiology Associates of North Texas | 33 | 14 | 51.5% | $750,000 |
| MUSC Health | 30 | 0 | 73.3% | n/a |
"n/a" means fewer than 20 disclosed salaries in that employer's live listings. Source: RadBoard.io
123 of the group's 268 live roles are remote or teleradiology — 45.9%, against a market average of 21.8%. The largest advertiser in US radiology is also the one most committed to distributed reading, and it advertises a median $600,000 to do it.
1,160 named employers in total; the top eight account for 14.4% of live roles. Source: RadBoard.io · Full ranking: radboard.io/companies/leaderboard
Share of live roles whose posting names AI tooling in the reading workflow. Source: RadBoard.io
Live roles by originating platform after de-duplication, with the share of each platform's postings that name a salary. A role advertised on five boards is counted once, under the source it was first seen on.
| Platform | Live roles | Disclose pay |
|---|---|---|
| 894 | 44.9% | |
| AuntMinnie | 659 | 76.3% |
| ACR Career Center | 537 | 86.8% |
| Radworking | 504 | 52.6% |
| NEJM CareerCenter | 494 | 13.2% |
| RSNA | 333 | 46.8% |
| PracticeLink | 272 | 43.0% |
| Independent practice sites | 226 | 60.6% |
| Health-system career sites | 162 | 22.2% |
| SIR | 112 | 71.4% |
| Abdominal radiology board | 102 | 88.2% |
| ASER | 72 | 77.8% |
Twelve largest of 25 tracked sources. Source: RadBoard.io · Analysis: xAID.ai
86.8% of ACR listings name a number; 13.2% of NEJM listings do. A radiologist browsing one board sees a transparent market, and the same radiologist on another board sees an opaque one. Any salary figure quoted without its source platform should be treated with suspicion — including, if it were quoted selectively, the ones in this report.
RadBoard tracks US radiologist openings daily across 25 sources — society boards, health-system career sites, staffing platforms and aggregators. Postings are de-duplicated twice: by canonical URL, then by content across sources, so a role advertised on five boards counts once.
Window: March 9 – September 10, 2026. Sample: 36,982 postings, 4,532 live on the snapshot date, 1,160 named employers.
Pay figures are advertised compensation, midpoint of the stated range, annualised. They are what employers publish, not what candidates sign. Only 51.3% of live roles disclose anything, so medians describe the disclosing half of the market and skew toward employers confident in their number.
Cuts under 20 disclosures are not published. Percentages for benefit flags are mention-based: silence means the posting did not say, not that the benefit is absent. This applies particularly to call — 12.5% are explicitly call-free; the remainder is mostly unknown, not "takes call".
Compensation-model, $/wRVU, sign-on, vacation, CME and visa figures are all drawn from what the posting states. Disclosure varies enormously — 62.1% of live roles state a compensation model, 13.6% a sign-on bonus, 4.7% a CME allowance, 2.1% a $/wRVU rate. Where an n falls below 20 it is printed next to the figure so it can be discounted; those rows are directional benchmarks, not market rates.
Ageing is measured from first appearance in our index, not from the employer's internal open date. A platform that re-posts a chair under a new URL resets that clock, which is why staffing desks and PE-backed groups show near-zero 90-day shares. Low ageing on those rows means fast re-listing, not fast hiring.
Subspecialty counts merge synonymous employer tags ("IR", "interventional", "interventional radiology"). Medians are never pooled across merged tags — where a merged figure would be needed, only counts are published.
A posting coming down does not prove a hire. Duration findings are therefore stated as time advertised, never as time to fill.
Questions or a data request: radboard.io · Analysis: xAID.ai
Live employer rankings, salary maps and the full dataset behind this report are at radboard.io. Capacity without hiring is at xAID.ai.