Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) Compensation Benchmarks

The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) produces nationally recognized compensation benchmarks used by healthcare organizations to evaluate and design provider pay structures. These benchmarks offer detailed insights into salary, productivity, and incentive trends across a wide range of specialties and practice types. MGMA’s datasets are widely used for strategic planning, compensation modeling, and performance alignment.

MGMA does not differentiate compensation by degree (e.g., MD vs. PhD); instead, benchmarks are categorized by specialty, role, and organizational type. For institutions seeking degree-specific data, the AAMC benchmarks may offer more granularity.

MGMA’s Academic Compensation benchmarks provide salary and productivity data for faculty employed in academic medical centers, university hospitals, and faculty practice plans. These benchmarks are stratified by faculty rank (e.g., Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor) and specialty and often adjusted to reflect full-time clinical effort. If the submitting organization is majority-owned by a university or classified as a medical school or university hospital, its data is included in the Academic Compensation dataset. This dataset is especially useful for aligning clinical incentive plans, RVU productivity targets, and blended compensation models, and serves as the closest analog to AAMC benchmarks.

Total Compensation includes base salary plus clinical incentive pay and other earnings, while Base Compensation reflects fixed salary only.