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With a specialized team, you have expert support at every step, at all career phases, and across the entire process. Psychiatrists look to Weatherby for best-in-class service for:
Malpractice insurance, including tail insurance
Competitive compensation and job availability for psychiatrists
Credentialing and licensing assistance fees
Planned and paid-for housing and travel
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Discover a better way to practice medicine with locums. We make it happen.
"I had the intention of going permanent, but I realized the locum doctors around me seemed happier because they were being paid more. There are a lot of pluses to locum tenens: higher wages, greater freedom and flexibility, and not being locked into a job before you try something out."
Dr. Greg Carr, psychiatrist
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"I just like the freedom that locums provides. I can set me schedule. I've paid off my loan. I can choose assignments that I enjoy. I'm not beholden to anything. At this point, I think I'm going to be a career locumist — assuming that's a word."
Dr. Chinenyenwa Onyemaechi, psychiatrist
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It’s important to get the right help for locums, and nobody does locums better than we do. We ranked high across eight agencies, looking at 10 satisfaction factors:
#1 in friendly and responsive consultants
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#2 in competitive compensation
#2 in job availability
*CHG Healthcare locum tenens awareness and perception survey, 2022
Live life on your terms
With her first assignment, psychiatrist Dr. Onyemaechi worried that members of the staff would view her as some kind of mercenary, just “there to do my job, collect my paycheck, and move on.” But in her experience, working locums hasn’t been like that at all.
“In the majority of facilities where I’ve been, they’ve treated me like I’m a permanent doctor,” she says. “I go to meetings that involve staff morale and other concerns. I feel like my own concerns and voice are addressed. Overall, I’ve felt like part of the team.”
Explore the benefits of locums
Like Dr. Chinenyenwa Onyemaechi and other psychiatrists who choose locums, you can achieve work-life balance and more.
Earn more money working locums vs permanent (on average, locums pay higher per hour)
Choose when you want an assignment and have more control over your schedule
Travel to different places and have freedom and flexibility for the lifestyle you want
Make a great impact serving communities where cardiologists are in high demand
Your FAQ about psychiatry
The salary of a psychiatrist can vary based on location, experience, and employer, but review the median annual salary data for psychiatrists from Medscape here.
Around 30% of psychiatrists take on extra work to supplement their income—similar to the rate of physicians in general, which is 36%. Of those who pursue side hustles, three areas are nearly tied as popular outlets for additional work and income:
Additional hours at their primary job as a physician (12%)
Medical moonlighting, including locum tenens (11%)
Other medical-related work (11%)
Resource: Weatherby salary report
According to the Medscape 2023 Physician Compensation Report, self-employed physicians—which includes locum tenens physicians—earn nearly 10% more than their employed counterparts. A Hanover Research study, conducted in partnership with CHG Healthcare, found that locum tenens physicians earn an average of $32.45 more per hour than full-time physicians in permanent positions.
Learn about general locum tenens amounts for cardiologists at Locumstory.
Resource: Weatherby Healthcare
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