Which Cities Are Physicians Most Satisfied in Their Jobs? See Our New Data

In what city are physicians most satisfied with their jobs?

Offcall is building the world’s largest dataset on physician compensation and workload to bring more transparency to the medical profession. We’re beginning to release our most impactful findings, such as how physicians really feel about overseeing APPs, what the gender pay gap looks like in emergency medicine, and how satisfied men vs. women physicians are across different specialities.

This week, we’re diving into another key topic: How does geography impact physician job satisfaction? More specifically, where do different U.S. cities rank?

Feelings about where you practice are surely about more than just geography alone – patient load, workplace culture, organizational support, are all significant factors to overall happiness and job satisfaction.

Nonetheless, it’s also true that even within the same specialty, a doctor in one city might feel energized and supported while another in a different region struggles with burnout. So we wanted to look at broad trends and see whether certain cities, on average, tend to have more satisfied physicians vs. others.

In order to do this, we asked physicians who created a free Offcall account to rate their job satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5. Pretty simple. Then, we aggregated the data by major metropolitan areas to see if certain regions consistently foster happier doctors, and the results revealed some interesting patterns.

What the Data Shows

Below, you'll find several charts showing what the data reveals.

Some of the top places to work for physicians in the U.S. include: