average salary for orthopedic surgeon
Broad Averages. A July 2011 special issue of Modern Healthcare magazine collected and compared 16 major physician salary surveys in an effort to find benchmarks for the profession. For orthopedic surgeons, the lowest reported average salary was $378,062 a year and the highest was $576,350 per year.Most fell between $450,000 and $550,000 per year. For example, staffing firm Merritt Hawkins reported an average of $521,000 per year, with a low of $300,000 and a high of $700,000.alaries by Specialty. Some salary surveys break out data for specific specialties within orthopedic surgery. For example, figures from the American Medical Group Association, or AMGA, report a median income of $425,000 per year for pediatric orthopedic surgeons.