Model the career before it becomes your life.

A career operating system for physicians: a decisive report prices the life you want, five workspaces go deep on offers, loans, call, production, and ownership, and one Decision Case carries your assumptions through every tool into a final action plan.

Phases of report building

Career Report

$1.68M

Required Gross Earnings

To hit early FI targets by 52.

Required income range$620k$780k
$300k$1.2M
Salary-only pressure$1.7M
Salary-feasible
Ownership gap
Salary ~$700kGap ~$976k
Public data 65%
User input 35%

Key Trade-off

Call Burden (Academic)High

Schedule Control

Autonomy over hours

42/100

Autonomy

The Builder
Strong public-data signal
Requires 2+ years fellowship

Choosing a specialty or fellowship

Test which fields actually fit the life and income you want, before you commit years. Net-worth curves price the training, not just the ceiling.

Valuing a real contract

Guarantee, wRVU tiers, ramp, clawbacks, tail, call burden, and state take-home, projected over five years, from the terms in your own offer letter.

Finishing with a plan

Every analysis files into one Decision Case. When enough is known, it synthesizes a Career Summary and Action Plan unique to your decision.

One system, three moves

See the workspaces →

1Get your report

Answer a few questions. The report prices the life you want, ranks the paths that can fund it, and says what it is least certain about.

2Go deep where it matters

Five workspaces: career path, training runway, offer analysis, productivity, and ownership. Each tool reads the same assumptions.

3Leave with an action plan

Results file into your Decision Case. The chain ends in a Career Summary & Action Plan built from your numbers, not a template.

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8,826

Neurosurgeons in the NPPES roster

One of the smallest surgical workforces in American medicine.

The national neurosurgery roster is small enough that the job market behaves like a professional guild: individual departures move local markets.

Public-data proxy

Limit: NPI registry roster; does not guarantee full-time clinical FTE..

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DoctorCalculator8,826NEUROSURGEONS IN THE NPPES ROSTEROne of the smallestsurgical workforces inAmerican medicine.The national neurosurgery roster is small enough thatthe job market behaves like a professional guild:individual departures move local markets.Source: CMS NPPES RegistryLimitation: NPI registry roster; does not guarantee full-time clinical FTE.DoctorCalculator.com

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Career Map · Free Tool

Every medical path on one map.

Plot modeled specialty paths across decision dimensions and find where your lifestyle and income goals intersect, then drill into any point.

Open the Career Map

Income Ceiling

95/100

Lifestyle Control

95/100

A direct comparison showing specialty trade-offs

Pick your match-up. The chart then gives you a head-to-head comparison of your chosen field(s).

Examples

Neurosurgery

Spine / MIS / Endoscopic vs Endovascular Neurosurgery

Hand-authored
Ownership / facility upsideSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Sleep / call burdenSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Lifestyle controlSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Training opportunity costSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Geography flexibilitySpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Burnout-mismatch riskSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Job-market densitySpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Income ceilingSpine / MIS / Endoscopic
Spine / MIS / EndoscopicvsEndovascular Neurosurgery

Income ceiling

Lifestyle control

Ownership / facility upside

Sleep / call burden

Career Summary & Action Plan

Every analysis ends in one plan, unique to your decision.

A different report for each decision: medicine fit, specialty choice, fellowship ROI, a job offer, or an attending pivot. Run the tools your decision needs, and the Decision Case synthesizes them: your assumptions, every result, the open risks, the unanswered questions, and the moves to make now. The free diagnosis comes first; premium unlocks the full reasoning and the plan.

Every figure is a modeled estimate or a labeled public-data proxy. Never a salary promise, and never an individual physician's income. Medicare and Open Payments data are public proxies, not take-home pay.