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Employer Leaderboard Report · 2026
Who Actually Pays What in US Radiology5,430 active postings. 1,291 named employers. Half of them won't tell you what they pay — and that turns out to be the ranking that matters. 01 · Headline Numbers
The radiology hiring market has a scoreboard now. Most groups are losing on a column they didn't know was scored.We ranked every US radiology employer in RadBoard's live database — not by prestige, not by reputation, but by what a radiologist can actually see before they apply. Pay, sign-on, remote, partnership track, and whether the number is on the page at all. 5,430 Active US radiology postings in the snapshot 1,291 Named employers ranked across 23 sources 50.0% Of postings show no salary figure at all $175K A year between the best- and worst-paying employer type 85.1% PE-backed disclosure rate — vs 31.8% academic 13.3% Mention loan forgiveness — 0.0% of PE-backed postings do 20.6% Of active postings are remote — down from 1 in 4 in March 24.9% Offer a partnership track Headline insight
Private equity has not won the radiology recruiting war on money — PE and independent practice pay within 1.7% of each other, with identical $700K medians. PE has won it on visibility. It shows a salary on 85.1% of postings against a market that manages 50.0%, offers remote on 47.8% against 11.0% for hospital systems, and advertises a partnership track on 60.6% of roles — a higher share than independent practices themselves. 02 · The Transparency Gap
Exactly half the market refuses to name a numberOf 5,430 active postings, 2,714 disclose a salary and 2,716 do not — 50.0% either way. For a profession where advertised ceilings run from $400K to over $1M, that is a remarkable amount of darkness. And it is not evenly distributed. Salary disclosure rate by employer typeSilence is a salary signal
Sort employers by disclosure and you very nearly sort them by pay. Academic centres hide the number 68.2% of the time and pay $561,764. PE-backed groups show it 85.1% of the time and pay $736,963. There are two honest exceptions, and both prove the rule: government posts pay because statute requires it, and staffing agencies hide it because the spread between what the client pays and what the radiologist gets is the product. 03 · The Offer, By Employer Type
On money it's a tie. On everything else it isn't.PE-backed groups average $736,963 at the top of the advertised band. Independent practices average $724,359. The medians are identical at $700,000. Anyone recruiting against PE on the assumption that they simply outbid you is solving the wrong problem.
What a candidate compares
A radiologist choosing between two offers sees four things before a recruiter ever calls: the number, whether they can work from home, whether they can own part of the practice, and how fast someone replies. PE-backed groups win three of those four outright. The one thing they do not offer — loan forgiveness, at 0.0% of postings — is the one lever academic and government employers still hold, and it is worth $200–400K against a pay gap of $175,199 per year. 04 · The Compensation Leaderboard
Top 30 employers by advertised payRanked on average maximum advertised salary. To qualify, an employer needs 5 or more active postings and 5 or more with a disclosed figure — 126 of 1,291 employers clear that bar. The threshold exists so that one generous outlier posting cannot top a national ranking.
Read this ranking carefully
These are advertised ceilings, not realised compensation. A $1M top-of-band on an eat-what-you-kill partnership is a different promise from a $1M salaried offer, and this file cannot tell them apart. What it can tell you is the number your candidate saw before they decided whether to reply to you. 05 · The Transparency Leaderboard
Who shows the money — and who doesn'tEmployers with 8 or more active postings, ranked by the share that carry a salary figure. Most transparent
Least transparent
06 · Subspecialty & Geography
Where the openings are, and what they payBy subspecialty
By state
Note on subspecialty counts
A posting can carry more than one subspecialty, so these counts sum above 5,430. Labels are normalised — "IR" is folded into Interventional Radiology, "breast" into Breast Imaging — but source data remains free-text and some drift survives. 07 · What This Means If You Run A Group
Two levers, and only one of them is a bidding warIf you are losing candidates you expected to win, this data suggests checking the cheap explanation first: your number may be competitive and simply invisible. Roughly half the market writes "competitive compensation" where a figure should be, and a candidate comparing four postings will filter on the two that gave them something to compare. If the number genuinely is the problem, the arithmetic is harder. Radiologists per 100,000 Americans moved from 11.1 to 11.5 over twelve years while imaging volume compounded. Eight subspecialties failed to fill half their fellowship slots this year. Turnover climbed from 5.3% to 8.5% in a decade, and the workload tipping point in private practice sits near 13,380 wRVU. You cannot reliably hire your way out of a coverage gap in a market where every group is bidding for the same shrinking pool. Which leaves the second lever: needing fewer seats to clear the same volume. 08 · Appendix
Every state, ranked by open postingsAll 5,430 active postings by the state of the advertised position. Remote-flagged roles are counted in the state the employer lists them under. Averages are suppressed to an em-dash where no posting in that state disclosed a figure.
09 · Method & Sources
How this was builtDataset 5,430 active US radiology job postings held by RadBoard.io on 27 July 2026, covering 1,291 named employers across 23 aggregated sources — LinkedIn, AuntMinnie, ACR, RadWorking, NEJM CareerCenter, hospital career sites, RSNA, PracticeLink, SAR, Indeed, SIR and others. What "salary" means Advertised figures only. "Max salary" is the top of the advertised band — a ceiling, not realised compensation. Hourly rates are annualised at ×2,080 and daily at ×260. Values outside $100K–$3.0M are excluded as parsing artefacts. Disclosure A posting counts as disclosing if a minimum and/or maximum salary is present. 2,714 of 5,430 postings (50.0%) do; 2,716 (50.0%) carry no figure. Inclusion thresholds The compensation leaderboard requires 5+ active postings and 5+ with a disclosed salary — 126 employers of 1,291 qualify. Volume and transparency rankings require 8+ active postings. Thresholds prevent a single high-band posting from topping a national ranking. Employer names Names are as published by the source. Generic strings — "Hospital", "Private practice", "Confidential" — are excluded from employer rankings but remain in market totals. Some groups appear under more than one legal entity and are not merged. Staffing agencies Locum and permanent-placement agencies re-advertise client roles. Their posting counts overstate distinct seats and their disclosure rates are structurally low. They are flagged, not removed. Known gaps Job type is largely unpopulated, so contractor and locum splits are unreliable. Expected wRVU appears in only 4.2% of postings and the disclosed values are too sparse and too noisy to rank on — deliberately excluded from this report. Call requirements are stated in 23% of postings; silence is recorded as unknown, never as "no call". External figures Radiologists per 100,000 population, turnover rates and the wRVU tipping point are from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute and JACR, 2026. Fellowship fill rates are from the 2026 match. All other figures in this report are computed from the RadBoard dataset described above. Refresh Postings are re-crawled continuously and deduplicated on canonical URL and on a title + employer + state content hash. Counts move day to day; this report is a single-day snapshot. Corrections welcome
If your group appears in this report under the wrong ownership type, under more than one entity, or with a disclosure rate you believe is wrong, email kirill@xaid.ai and we will re-check the underlying postings. Every figure here is reproducible from the dataset described above — nothing is estimated or modelled. About xAID
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xaid.ai · Kirill Lopatin, Founder & CEO · San Francisco, California · #xAID #radiology #medtech Which US radiology employers pay the most? The live ranking is at radboard.io/companies/leaderboard — part of RadBoard.io, the largest aggregator of US radiology jobs: 5,000+ listings, 20+ sources, AI-powered search and salary map. |