Total compensation — salary, bonus and benefits — for orthopedic surgeons is around $576,789 on average, according to Salary.com.
Here are eight statistics breaking down average benefit value and percentage of overall compensation:
1. Base salary: $432,552 — 75 percent of all compensation
2. Bonuses: $37,018 — 6.4 percent
3. Social Security: $13,858 — 1.6 percent
4. 401k/403b: $9,000 — 1.6 percent
5. Disability: $4,226 — 0.7 percent
6. Healthcare: $6,592 — 1.1 percent
7. Pension: $15,750 — 2.7 percent
8. Time off: $57,793 — 10 percent