Like in all medicine, specialists tend to earn more (pediatric cardiologists, for example, earn an average salary of $299,282, according to Salary.com) but it takes longer to become one.

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The median annual salary among U.S. pediatricians in 2020 was $232,000, among the lowest of physician specialties, according to the Medscape 2020 Physician Compensation Report. However ...