- According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, citing a Physician Compensation Survey appearing in "Modern Healthcare" in July 2010, the annual salary for a radiology oncologist ranged between $242,900 and $518,991.
- Compared to other major cities, New York City had one of the highest median salaries for radiation oncologists in the United States, at $389,250 a year. That's according to June 2011 research from compensation information website, Salary.com, which also indicated that the median for radiology oncologists in Boston, Massachusetts, was $366,295. The median salary for radiology oncologists in the District of Columbia was $357,421 annually, while in Orlando, Florida, it was a respectable $302,667.
- Compared to their East Coast and West Coast counterparts, radiology oncologists in Southern states tended to earn less. For instance, according to data given by Salary.com in June 2011, radiology oncologists in Atlanta, Georgia, had a median salary of $328,584 a year, while in Dallas, Texas, it was $326,944. In Nashville, Tennessee, the median was $310,548, and it Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it was $302,349.
- Leading the salary benchmark in the Midwest was Chicago, Illinois, where the median for radiology oncologists was $347,941 a year. Minneapolis, Minnesota, practitioners weren't too far behind with a median annual salary of $345,636. In Omaha, Nebraska, the median salary dropped to $306,612, while in Cheyenne, Wyoming, it fell slightly below the $300,000 level to $298,086 a year.
- Radiology oncologists in major West Coast cities earned some of the highest salaries in the industry. The median was $393,513 in San Francisco, California, while further down the coast In Los Angeles it was $360,065, just slightly less than those practicing in Seattle, Washington, who earned $360,720 as a median. Radiology oncologists in Portland, Oregon, had a median of $336,454, which was over $57,000 less than those clinicians working in San Francisco.
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