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Table 4 Results of 2498 physicians’ longitudinal analysis of factors associated with salary, 2015–2016

From: The salary of physicians in Chinese public tertiary hospitals: a national cross-sectional and follow-up study

Items

Estimate (SE)

p value

Gender

 Male

Ref.

 

 Female

−48.6

0.1655

Age

14.0

0.0051

Years in practice

13.0

0.0014

Education

 Doctorate

Ref.

 

 Bachelor’s and below

− 538.0

<.0001

 Master’s

−383.0

<.0001

Technical Title

 Chief

Ref.

 

 Resident

− 345.0

0.0008

 Attending

−230.1

0.0121

 Associate chief

− 142.7

0.0981

Management position

 Yes

Ref.

 

 No

−274.3

<.0001

Workload

−1.8

0.7399

Specialty

 Paediatrics

Ref.

 

 Internal medicine

− 160.1

0.0011

 Surgery

11.61

0.8489

 Obstetrics

33.8

0.5340

 Traditional Chinese medicine

− 166.8

0.0113

 Emergency medicine

−87.0

0.2086

 Otolaryngology

218.5

0.0182

 Anaesthesiology

191.7

0.0137

 Ophthalmology

73.2

0.6268

 Stomatology

38.0

0.7160

 Other

−60.7

0.3862

Region

 West

Ref.

 

 Central

262.8

<.0001

 Middle

−176.3

<.0001

Time (2015y = 1, 2016y = 2)

394.4

<.0001