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What Is the Average Allergist and Immunologist Salary?

Salary is a big part of whether a job ultimately ends up being a good fit, so it’s important for physicians to know their worth in the job market and to ask for it. Having access to salary data empowers doctors to know whether they are being compensated appropriately. Allergists and immunologists need transparency about what the average compensation data is for allergy & immunology, as well as about other typical parts of the compensation package, so that they can leverage this information during contract negotiations. 


We have therefore tried to provide both concrete data points as well as compile aggregate physician salary data on what doctors make, and make it available to our members for free, as opposed to having to pay for expensive databases. Using data gathered from our online physician communities, this series on compensation data by specialty assesses aggregate data from our physician salary and compensation database provided by physicians across the country.


Disclaimers/Disclosures: This information is derived from our physician salary and compensation databases, but is subject to self-reporting errors and availability of relevant data points from our online communities. This information is provided for educational purposes only, and is aimed at advocating for individual physicians. It is not intended to be used for collective bargaining; please see additional disclosures and disclaimers on the physician salary data pages. Please also do your own research before making any decisions based on the information provided. We are not formal financial, legal, or tax professionals and do not provide individualized advice. You should consult these as appropriate. We highly recommend having your physician employment agreement reviewed by a physician contract review attorney to ensure you have the most up to date and relevant information for your specific situation.


The average salary for allergists and immunologists based on practice environment

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*Important Note* on Allergy & Immunology Aggregate Stats


We’ve had several requests from members to cover allergy & immunology for our how much do doctors make series. While we want to provide useful information, we don't have enough data points from allergists to provide reliable averages for many of the influencing factors/categories that we typically explore in this series. The below is the most we can report at this time in terms of aggregate stats. For those wanting more details, we highly recommend that members of our online physician communities access to the full free doctor salary and negotiation database. This will give you the best apples to apples comparison available at this time for allergy and immunology, as you will be able to review all the available allergist datapoints to find information specific to your situations.


If you can’t find enough relevant data points, a local physician employment contract review attorney can help you assess what current market trends are in your area.



We would love to reassess the statistics and further expand insights based upon future data. We’ll update this page as we receive more contributions. If you haven’t already, please contribute your anonymous physician salary and compensation data to help others in your specialty.


The data for allergists & immunologists below was compiled using data points anonymously contributed to our database between late-2023 and early-2025. At the time of this article, we had a limited number of data points with a high level of variability, including hours worked, practice environment, etc. Smaller datasets are typically less representative of the overall landscape of the specialty and skew the data towards certain subsets of respondents, which is why you’ll find limited aggregate reporting below.


The stats below are for full-time attending allergists & immunologists, determined based on a full-time equivalency of 1 FTE (if reported) or an average 36+ hours worked a week. We excluded data contributed by residents and fellows.



How Much Does an Allergist/Immunologist Make?


The data that we recieved skewed towards a disproportionate percentage of physicians in academic practices. Because the average academic physician tends to make less money than their private practice or employed hospital physician counterparts, we do not want to suggest that the average allergist/immunologist makes less than what they do. Therefore, we have intentionally chosen not to publish an overall average for the field, but rather focus on salaries by practice environment for this article.



How Much Allergists & Immunologists Make by Practice Environment


  • Group private practices: The average salary for allergists & immunologists working for group private practices, both private equity backed and independent, was $342,000, which was generally higher than salaries for physicians employed at hospitals, regardless of academic or nonacademic. The highest salaries were in the $500,000 range.


  • Academic hospitals: The average salary for allergists & immunologists employed by academic hospitals was $236,000, which was generally significantly lower than salaries in group private practices and other non-academic hospital employed environments. We like to remind doctors that salary is only one component of the overall compensation package. While academic hospitals offer lower salaries, they typically include other incentives, such as pensions and/or retirement benefits and eligibility for Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) programs.


  • Nonacademic hospitals: Reported salaries for full-time allergists & immunologists working at nonacademic hospitals ranged from $335,000 to $514,000. We are unable to report a specific average given the high variability of data points in this category in terms of hours worked in the submitted data points. Given the small number of data points that fit the full time category, we cannot confidently say that the average in this category is higher than that of group private practices or if this just happened to represent the few data points that we received.



Additional Insights into Allergist/Immunologist Compensation Packages


Insights into how much allergists and immunologists receive for compensation packages including sign-on bonus, relocation bonus, and CME stipends

Sign-On and Relocation Bonuses Allergists & Immunologists Receive


28% of allergists & immunologists reported receiving some sort of sign-on bonus, with an average amount of $18,000. Signing bonuses ranged from $5,000 up to $40,000.


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26% of allergists & immunologists reported receiving a relocation bonus, with an average of $12,000. Moving bonuses ranged from $1,500 to $50,000.



Average Vacation Days Allergists & Immunologists Receive


The average number of annual vacation days allergists & immunologists received was 22 days. The median was 21 days. Reported vacation time ranged anywhere from 3 weeks to 6 weeks.




CME Stipends for Allergists & Immunologists


67% of our allergists & immunologists reported receiving some sort of CME stipend. The average was $2,600. Reported stipends ranged anywhere from $500 - $5,000.




Average Student Loan Debt for Allergy & Immunology


While student loans are not a part of compensation, student loan debt forgiveness can be a benefit with many positions. Of our allergists & immunologists who reported their student loan debt at graduation, the average debt was $193,000. The higher your federal loan debt burden, the more beneficial repayment programs and loan forgiveness programs can be.


Learn more about doctor student loans. If you’ve been considering refinancing to help with the debt burden, you can also explore our student loan refinancing options.



Increasing Your Allergist/Immunologist Salary


There are a few different ways to increase your income in allergy & immunology care. But a reminder first to look at the overall picture. Salary is a key component to physician compensation, but it isn’t the only part of a well negotiated physician employment contract.


If you like where you work but don’t love the pay, consider setting aside a time to talk with management. If you are a valued part of their team, they may be willing to work with you to renegotiate your contract versus risking you leaving. Their answer may be no, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Be practical in what you’re expecting and respectful in your request. Diving deeper into the salary and compensation data for physicians for comparable situations can help you get a target idea of what to try to renegotiate for.


Looking for additional career opportunities can also help. Sometimes, an employer may either not be able to or just not willing to work with you to get you to where you should be. That doesn’t mean every job will come with the same constraints. Interviewing for a few other positions can give you a feel of what the market looks like from the employer’s perspective by what employers are willing to offer, like we mentioned above. Explore open opportunities on our Physician Side Gigs job board, and explore all our physician career resources and education to help you navigate the job search process.


While we think the data above and in our database can be a great tool during the negotiation process, we almost always also recommend hiring a local contract review attorney for physicians to review your contract. They will have invaluable experience when it comes to negotiating physician contracts, including understanding what red flags to watch out for.



If you’re looking to increase your income in allergy & immunology but are already at or above your market’s rate, you have options in this situation as well. Opportunities to consider include:



If you’re interested in learning about side gig opportunities related to your interests, sign up for our free side gig matching databases. They’re completely free, but only available to members of our online physician community.



Additional Salary and Career Resources for Allergists & Immunologists


Explore our related articles and resources on doctor compensation and salaries: 


If you haven’t recently, please take a few minutes to contribute! The data provided is used only for the purpose of our database to help physicians like yourself negotiate better compensation by helping provide salary transparency with relevant data. The data is completely anonymous and is only available to members of our Physician Side Gigs Facebook group. Contribution links can be found on our compensation data for physicians page.


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