 What's up you guys? Okay so you've been asking about this and I wanted to make a video just more updated video for you guys. I've done a video version of this before where I was talking about the various different specialties and how much they make but you guys have been asking me about the number one like highest paying PA specialty and so that is what this video is going to be out about. I hope that you guys go ahead and check that other video out because you can see if there's anything that has changed over the past few years from when I first did this video. So let's get into it right now. What's up you guys? Sit down and welcome back to my channel. Okay so like I said did this before I'm going to link it here for you guys so you guys can go check that out and you can do a little compare and contrast to see if anything has kind of changed. If new specialties have moved in, moved out, fallen off completely who knows but you're going to find out right now and I know you just want to get into the money and know how much these specialties make so I'm going to start off with the top like the number 10 of the top 10 and we'll go down to the end and you guys can try and guess and see if you know which specialty is the one that makes the most money. Let me know in the comment section below if you were right. Okay so the number 10 specialty is plastic surgery. Now if you want to be a plastic surgery PA this one is for you because they make a pretty decent penny. They're coming in at $122,000 on average a year and again this is an average. Obviously there are people in the plastic surgery subspecialties that make a whole lot more and a whole lot less well maybe not a whole lot less but less maybe let's say like $10,000 less I would say but on average it's about $122,000 and take everything that I say with a grain of salt because again these are all averages. For one of the specialties that they're talking about I was like no way they're like I know people making like $10,000 like boo goo tens of thousands of dollars more than what this is saying but again it is the average and this is coming straight from AAPA.org which is our national like kind of governing body of the physician assistant career and profession so you know this is not just me pulling this off of google this is from AAPA okay so you can take it to the bank but with that being said plastic surgery they had like a little kind of diagram that showed how much they made and then like what the average burnout was and it was like 33% which is pretty good that's like low so you know high salary low low burnout I think that's a good thing. All right so the number nine specialty is radiology and now I don't really know that many people in radiology but I know that there are quite a few people that are interested in it you know doing like IR stuff helping out on that end and they make about $122,000 a year like $122,350 I think is what the average was and so that's pretty good too not that far away from plastic surgery and obviously this is on a group of people that they have surveyed AAPA sends out this survey every year to see what the salary or the average salary is so if somebody chooses not to participate or if you know the higher paying radiology PAs are not reporting then that obviously skews this but again take it with a grain of salt okay I'm just giving you the facts and their burnout rate is 42.9% so again not even cracking 50% so that is really good retention which is great in my book okay the next one is urgent care now the urgent care PA makes on average $123,517 and again that is an average I don't know how many times I'm going to keep saying this but to me those numbers sound really low just because I know people that make way more than that but that is what AAPA's salary average is saying however their burnout rate is 54% so they're cracking that 50 percentile which I mean you can take it or leave it it's not like super high but it's just something to think about because you know obviously of the workflow and the case load and all of those are different things so keep that in mind if you're trying to go into urgent care the next one is neurosurgery now neurosurgery is making $124,000 on average a year their burnout rate though is 51.4% so a little bit lower than the urgent care contemporaries but still over 50% so again that may have to do with someone like the neurosurgeons and their their like ego whatever the case may be their their various different like you know idiosyncrasies as neurosurgeons sometimes have or just the case load as well so again something to keep in mind when you're looking at that critical care PA's make about $124,886 on average a year according to the survey I want to see what their burnout rate is 63% 63.4% to be exact and I thought it would be high because honestly like they deal with a lot they see a lot there is a lot of like you know really tough situations surrounding them and you know they're relied on a lot when dealing with their patients so I'm pretty sure that the burnout was going to be high 64% seems high and actually actually 63.4% seems high and it is actually the highest percentage of burnout in the top 10 so just keep that in mind the next one is occupational medicine and they are making $125,600 on average a year their burnout rate however is 42.1% closer to your radiology plastic surgery area you know so you know if you want like the soft life if you look up for that soft life you know hashtag soft life then this might be one for you to get into so this is my area this is where I am at in the surgical subspecialties you know general surgery acute care surgery trauma so for our specialty we make on average $127,775 a year again there are people that make way more than that but that is the average of what was reported and I am happy to say that our burnout is 32% which is the lowest in the top 10 but I think again that is all in terms of like specialty specific because I feel like maybe in like your you know trauma surgery the burnout might be a little bit higher than in your acute care surgery where you're dealing with lots of appies and gallbladders and things of that nature just because of the types of cases that you're coming in contact with but on average it's 32% which is cool to see the next one the number three so we're down to the top three specialties so the number three is emergency medicine and it says that they make on average $129,146 and their burnout is 51.8% so again among the highest actually I think it is the fourth highest in the top 10 so if you are interested in some of these specialties I think it is important to look at both like not only like how much money you're making but also what is the burnout rate because that goes to show like what your overall lifestyle will be what your overall work-life balance might be and you need to really take that into consideration when you're choosing a specialty especially in this career that you have worked so hard to get to okay the number two specialty is dermatology now I know a lot of people that love dermatology all the aesthetic stuff you know Botox and lasers and all of that good stuff they are pulling in 146,000 on average a year which is cool you know obviously that means that there are people pulling in higher like way higher than that they're already in like the mid 100 so that's pretty cool it's interesting though that dermatology is number two at 146,000 and plastics is that 122,000 because you would think that there is like some overlap in there where you know you when you get to like the more cosmetic side of things that they would pull in more but it would be very interesting to see if plastic surgery PAs that deal solely in cosmetics what their salary is in comparison to like their dermatology counterparts because I promise you I promise you it's very high their burnout is 43.2% so on average on par with all of the other kind of like mid-range burnout specialties and now for the number one specialty okay the number one PAs specialty that grosses the highest on average income is cardiothoracic slash cardiovascular surgery they are pulling in 147,200 dollars their burnout rate is 47.6% again pretty on par with all of the other like mid-range it's not in the 60s like a critical care and emergency medicine so you know maybe closer to that soft life but I did see just a report that they pull in the most amount of hours you know on average they're doing like 60 hours a week which is bananas because you know I'm doing like 72 to 80 hours in a two week span so it's just something to think about but I hope this information is very enlightening to you please tell me in the comment section below if you guessed which specialty was the highest grossing one and if you didn't if you got close to it and then kind of tell me also what specialty you're thinking of going into it and how that burnout rate plays on your on your mind in terms of if you're still interested or if you're kind of double you know kind of questioning that or thinking over a little bit all right thank you guys so much for watching if you have any other comments or questions for me leave them in the comment section below don't forget to subscribe and like this video follow me on instagram at a dot on the pa and on instagram at get that c university thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time