Compensation guide
Use this page when salary is only the starting point. Benchmark live CRNA, anesthesiologist, and CAA pay, compare the strongest published state markets, and move into real offer evaluation once taxes, bonuses, benefits, or contract structure become the real decision.
Use the salary hub when you need broad CRNA, anesthesiologist, and CAA pay ranges before narrowing into one role or market.
Open the rankings hub to compare where current salary medians are leading across anesthesia roles instead of guessing from one-off anecdotes.
Use the contract-structure guide when take-home pay, taxes, and entity decisions matter more than the headline base number.
Model taxes, bonuses, benefits, and package shape once a compensation question turns into an actual job decision.
The useful move is usually different depending on whether you are trying to benchmark the market, shortlist states, or compare a real package. These role snapshots give you a faster way into the salary pages that matter most next.
Use the CRNA guide when call mix, staff-versus-locums tradeoffs, or fast-moving state salary swings matter more than one blended anesthesia average.
Current median: $275,000
Typical band: $235,000–$325,000
Published sample: 490 salary-bearing listings
Top current state: California ($400,000 median)
Use the physician guide when compensation needs to be read alongside call burden, leadership expectations, and state-by-state market strength.
Current median: $525,000
Typical band: $450,000–$600,000
Annual compensation midpoint distribution
Annual compensation midpoint distribution
Annual compensation midpoint distribution
The best broad compensation page should shorten the jump into something more actionable. Once you know whether the question is role, geography, or offer structure, move into the page that gives you the sharpest next signal.
Use the broad rankings hub when you want the fastest cross-role view of where published anesthesia pay is leading right now.
Compare bonuses, taxes, benefits, and structure once salary research turns into a real offer decision.
Use the CRNA guide when call mix, staff-versus-locums tradeoffs, or fast-moving state salary swings matter more than one blended anesthesia average.
Use the physician guide when compensation needs to be read alongside call burden, leadership expectations, and state-by-state market strength.
Practical market context, not a synthetic salary survey.
These salary pages are built from active anesthesia job postings on Anesthesio that include structured compensation data. We use salary ranges from current listings, compute midpoints for directional market comparisons, and surface percentile bands to show spread rather than pretending the market has one exact number.
That means this page is best used for market orientation: understanding where current openings cluster, how wide compensation ranges look, and which states or metros are paying above or below the middle of the market right now.
The salary hub is the cleanest role-by-role benchmark starting point. This compensation page is broader and decision-oriented: it connects live salary benchmarks, state rankings, W-2 versus 1099 framing, and the offer comparison tool in one path for people who already know compensation is the main question.
Start with rankings when you want the fastest cross-role view of where published pay looks strongest. Start with a role salary guide when you already know you are researching CRNA, anesthesiologist, or CAA compensation and want cleaner role-specific context before looking at individual states.
Use salary pages first for market orientation. Use the offer comparison tool once you are evaluating a real package and need to pressure-test bonuses, taxes, benefits, contract structure, or W-2 versus 1099 tradeoffs side by side.
Published sample: 750 salary-bearing listings
Top current state: Alaska ($800,000 median)
Use the CAA guide when geography, supervision model, and market availability matter just as much as the salary headline.
Current median: $250,000
Typical band: $230,000–$270,000
Published sample: 163 salary-bearing listings
Top current state: Michigan ($275,000 median)
States with the strongest current salary coverage
States with the strongest current salary coverage
Run side-by-side compensation scenarios with tax modeling for W-2, 1099, and S-Corp structures.
Use the CAA guide when geography, supervision model, and market availability matter just as much as the salary headline.
| IA |
| $600,000 |
| Limited sample |
| ME | $600,000 | Limited sample |
| IL | $575,000 | Reliable sample |
| WA | $575,000 | Reliable sample |
| OR | $575,000 | Limited sample |
| NY | $565,000 | Reliable sample |