SalaryDr Launch · For residents & fellows
See what physicians in your specialty earn, where demand is strongest, and when to begin your search — then connect with employers on your terms.
A few questions → your real market: pay, demand, and when to start.
SalaryDr Launch is a physician-only career-intelligence and job-transition product that helps residents and fellows understand the attending market, plan their first job search, and privately connect with employers — using real physician compensation data and live physician-only jobs.
How it works
The bridge between training and your first attending job, in three stages.
Get real attending compensation, live demand, and the strongest markets for your specialty. Career-market intelligence a generic board never gives you.
Save your specialty, completion year, preferred markets, and pay target. Matching physician-only roles come to you — timed to your graduation window.
Signal interest to employers privately. They see your specialty and preferences — never your name, contact details, or CV, unless you choose to share them.
Your graduation timeline
Most physicians line up their first attending job 12–18 months before finishing training. Here’s the full runway.
Explore specialty markets
Verified physician pay and live roles across 376 hiring employers. Pick your specialty.
Identity-shielded from employers
Your name, email, phone number, training program, and CV are never shown to an employer unless you choose to share them.
Why it’s different
Every result is a physician role — not nursing, NP/PA, or agency reposts. Just the jobs meant for you.
Employer-posted pay when we have it, clearly-labeled SalaryDr market context when we don’t — with the source and sample size.
Browse, save, and get matched without a recruiter ever seeing you. Your identity is released only when you choose.
Filter by what actually decides a first job: sign-on bonus, loan repayment, visa/J-1, and call burden.
Common questions
Most physicians line up their first attending job 12–18 months before finishing training, and start exploring the market well before that. SalaryDr Launch maps what to do at each stage: explore markets more than 24 months out, set your preferences and compensation expectations at 18–24 months, open your search and begin employer conversations at 12–18 months, compare and negotiate at 6–12 months, and focus on closing and credentialing under 6 months.
First-attending-job compensation varies widely by specialty, geography, and practice setting. SalaryDr shows a real compensation range built from verified physician-reported salaries — labeled with the sample size and whether it is employer-provided or SalaryDr market context — so you can see the range for your specialty before you ever talk to a recruiter.
SalaryDr shows the number of live, physician-only openings and the employers hiring right now, broken down by specialty and state. Your First Attending Job Plan surfaces the strongest markets for your specialty so you can see where demand — and often compensation — runs highest.
Yes. You can browse, save roles, and set job alerts without any employer seeing you — no phone number, no recruiter inbox. When you express interest, your identity stays shielded from the employer: they see your specialty, completion year, and preferences, but your name, contact details, and CV are released only when you choose to share them.
Yes. SalaryDr Launch is free for residents and fellows. Employers pay for transparent profiles, enhanced job presentation, featured placement, and access to qualified, de-identified resident-interest signals — so the platform stays candidate-first.
SalaryDr is physician-only and compensation-first, and it is built specifically for the transition from training to a first attending job — not for applying to a job you already found. Every listing is a real physician role (never NP, PA, or agency reposts), pay is shown or clearly labeled with its source, and the product helps you understand the market and your leverage before recruiters start defining them for you.
Roles show employer-posted pay when it is available, and clearly-labeled SalaryDr market context estimated from verified physician salaries when it is not — the two are never blended. Where employers disclose it, listings also surface call burden, schedule, signing bonus, loan repayment, partnership track, and visa/J-1 sponsorship.
Build your free First Attending Job Plan in 60 seconds — real pay, live demand, and exactly when to start.