If you're a resident or early-career physician weighing your next move, Family Medicine is having a moment: it's one of the most sought-after specialties in the country, and compensation is climbing faster than in most other fields. Doximity's most recent Physician Compensation Report puts real numbers behind that momentum — and makes the case for why now is a smart time to consider a role like the one we're currently hiring for.

Family Medicine Physician Compensation in 2025: What the Data Shows

Family Medicine physicians earned an average of $325,040 in 2025, according to Doximity's 2026 Physician Compensation Report (based on survey data collected January–December 2025). That's up from $318,959 in 2024 — a 6.0% year-over-year increase, one of the faster growth rates among all specialties that year.

Family Medicine Is the #2 Most In-Demand Specialty in the Country

Here's the part that matters most for anyone job-hunting: Family Medicine ranked #2 in overall physician demand based on job postings across Doximity's network in 2025, second only to Internal Medicine, and #3 among specialties with the highest demand for locum tenens work. Doximity's researchers point to a looming shortage of 70,610 full-time-equivalent primary care physicians projected by 2038 — a gap that health systems are already scrambling to fill.

Why IMGs Are Increasingly Choosing Family Medicine

International medical graduates are a growing part of this story. In the 2026 Match, IMGs (both US-IMG and non-US-IMG) filled 33.5% of all Family Medicine positions — 1,547 of 5,512 spots. Non-US IMGs alone matched into 962 Family Medicine positions, up from 801 the year before, marking a third consecutive year of growth and pushing their fill rate from 14.9% to 17.5%. That's happening while interest from the U.S. MD senior class has stayed comparatively flat.

The trend isn't new; it reflects where IMGs already are in the workforce. Roughly a quarter of practicing family physicians and residents in the U.S. today are IMGs, making them a foundational part of the specialty rather than a marginal one. For a specialty facing the primary care shortage described above, that pipeline matters.

What This Means If You're Weighing Family Medicine Right Now

The math is straightforward: fewer trained physicians are choosing primary care, demand keeps climbing, and organizations that value Family Medicine physicians are having to compete harder for talent. That's exactly the environment we're hiring into right now.

If work-life balance, community-based practice, and being part of a specialty in genuinely short supply matter to you, this is worth a serious look.

Sources

• Doximity 2026 Physician Compensation Report (doximity.com/reports/physician-compensation-report/2026), based on ~37,000+ U.S. physician survey responses collected in 2025
• Doximity 2025 Physician Compensation Report for 2024 comparison figures
• 2026 NRMP Main Residency Match results for Family Medicine, via AAFP (aafp.org)