Made by clinicians for clinicians

👋 Hi there, I’m Dr. Rob Anderson.

Thanks for joining our community and for helping make salary sharing a movement.

Over the course of my 20-year career in medicine, one of the most striking changes I’ve seen has been the transition toward an employer-driven model. While I started my career in a private partnership, I’m now just an employee like most of you (78% of physicians are now employees of a health system or corporation). And now, as a leader and recruiter within my group, I’ve watched all of us slowly drift further away from the business of medicine. We now have less visibility into the numbers and seem to have given up control and negotiating leverage to our employers who hold all the information.

It doesn’t have to be this way. I know this because my twin brother, Tim, was part of the early team at a startup called Glassdoor, which popularized anonymous salary sharing. Over the years, I saw firsthand how Glassdoor helped rewrite the rules around salary transparency and empowered its community to make more informed career decisions. I wondered why nobody was building this for medicine. Surely we could use something like this as much as everybody else (maybe even more).

So, I started to explore something similar, but this time built specifically for all of us in medicine. With Tim’s help, I put together a simple salary survey with a few goals in mind:

• To capture all of the details that matter (compensation, workload, schedule, and benefits) to understand if you’re fairly paid
• To share individual anonymous salaries and not just high-level aggregated numbers
• And to use a “give-to-get” model to make all of this information free and accessible to everyone in our community

I wasn’t sure if clinicians would even be willing to share this information, so we tested an early salary survey with a quick post to Reddit. Within 36 hours, we had collected over 450 physician and APP salaries (along with lots of encouraging feedback). It was clear that the community wanted this information. We then made several improvements to incorporate feedback, collect more detailed info, and add support for all specialties and compensation models - and that’s when things started to get more complicated. It was clear to us that the simple Google Sheet used to display thousands of detailed salaries wasn’t the best solution, and yet it continued to be shared across the Internet, and new salaries were added daily.

We wanted to make a bigger impact, so we took a step back and called upon our friends in medicine and tech. With their help and experience, we turned this humble “project” into a mobile-friendly website built specifically for all of us in medicine.

What you’re seeing today is our Beta product (v1). It’s the first yet significant step towards creating the salary transparency I’ve known was possible. With continued growth and engagement from this community, we aspire to build the largest and most complete salary data set so that you have everything you need to make the right choices for you and your career.

We are grateful for all of you who have shared an anonymous salary. There is strength in numbers, and this community will only get better, stronger, and more helpful from here.

Thank you for coming along with us at Marit.