ACS Compensation Survey

Help Strengthen Surgeon Compensation Data

Help build a clearer picture of surgeon compensation while gaining access to data that can help you better understand your own compensation and employment contract.

The American College of Surgeons is conducting the ACS Compensation Survey powered by Resolve. By sharing information about your compensation and employment agreement, you will contribute to a growing source of surgeon-reported data designed to provide more meaningful comparisons across specialties, regions, and practice characteristics.

Take the survey for a chance to win a free Resolve contract review ($1,099 value). The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and is open through December 14, 2026.

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Already completed the survey?

Stay tuned! Preliminary results will be available in January 2027. Those who took the survey will receive an email notification of the results.

Why Participate?

Reliable, relevant compensation information can be difficult to find. Broad salary ranges do not always account for differences in specialty, location, practice setting, or the individual terms that make up a surgeon's employment agreement.

Your participation will help ACS develop more detailed compensation insights for surgeons while giving you access to resources designed to help you understand how your own compensation compares.

Survey respondents will receive:

Personalized compensation insights. The ACS Compensation Dashboard will allow you to compare elements of your compensation and contract with data reported by surgeons with similar characteristics.
Access to the ACS Compensation Report. Respondents will receive the full report before its general release.
An opportunity to win a prize. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a Resolve physician contract review ($1,099 value).

The more surgeons who participate, the more detailed the resulting data can be across areas such as subspecialty, region, and years in practice.

About the ACS Compensation Dashboard

The ACS Compensation Dashboard will use surgeon-reported data to provide members with more relevant compensation benchmarks.

Rather than providing a single compensation percentile, the dashboard is designed to help surgeons evaluate individual elements of their compensation and employment agreements, including:

Base compensation
Incentive compensation
Call pay
RVU rates
Productivity measures
Practice characteristics

Members will be able to compare their information with relevant surgeon data and better understand which elements of their compensation align with available benchmarks.

Help Strengthen Surgeon Compensation Data

Every response helps build a more complete picture of surgeon compensation and enables more meaningful comparisons across specialties, regions, and practice characteristics. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who can participate?

The survey is open to ACS Fellows and Associate Fellows in the United States who are currently in practice and have an employment agreement. Residents and training fellows are not eligible because the survey asks participants to provide information about an employment contract.

How long does the survey take?

The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Plan on completing the survey in one sitting. The survey does not save partial responses.

What information will I need?

The survey asks about elements of your compensation and employment arrangement, including base compensation, incentive compensation, call pay, practice setting, hours, and other contract terms.

Who will have access to the survey results?

All active ACS members who complete the survey will have access to the results and dashboard. While there is no deadline to participate, only members who complete the survey by December 14, 2026, will have access to the preliminary results. Members who complete the survey after that date will still be able to access the dashboard as additional data becomes available.

When will the results be available?

Preliminary findings will be available at the end of January 2027 to members who completed the survey by December 14, 2026. You can access the dashboard using the same link you used to complete the survey.

How does the prize drawing work?

Members who complete the survey by November 14, 2026, will be entered into a drawing for a Resolve physician contract review ($1,099 value).

Your Privacy

Resolve administers the survey on behalf of ACS. Your submission is de-identified on receipt and reported only in aggregate. It is never linked to your membership record, never shared with an employer or recruiter, and never sold. Any group with too few respondents is suppressed rather than published. Visit the Resolve website to review their methodology and privacy summary.

About Resolve

Resolve is a physician-focused legal services company: attorney-led contract review, compensation data, and career support for doctors. Their rData is built the same way this survey is: physicians reporting their own real contract terms, de-identified and reported in aggregate. Resolve builds and operates the dashboard on behalf of the ACS.

What Resolve Receives

Your survey responses, de-identified. We do not share your name, your employer, or your ACS record.

Resolve does not sell physician data and does not share it with employers or recruiters.