Tools worth bookmarking
Built on public federal data, free, and no account required. VitalPost is run by a practising ER physician — these are the calculations we wanted when weighing our own offers.
Is my offer competitive?
Compare an offer against published federal wage data for your specialty and state. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
Locum & moonlighting rate
Turn a 1099 hourly rate into the W-2 salary that would actually leave you equally well off, after self-employment tax and self-funded benefits.
wRVU productivity comp
Model total comp from wRVUs, conversion factor, base and threshold — or back out the conversion factor an offer implies.
Cost of living by state
Compare any two states on living costs, taxes and demographics, and see what your specialty's pay is really worth.
Salary by specialty & state
Federal wage data for 19 specialties, every state, plus rankings of where that pay goes furthest.