PATHOLOGIST
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Job Description
Butler Memorial Hospital, one of the five hospitals in the Independence Health System, is seeking a full time AP/CP board certified/eligible Pathologist to join. Butler is a welcoming community just 35 miles north of Pittsburgh, offering affordable housing, excellent schools, and easy access to the city.
Our pathology service currently handles approximately 23,000 surgical, 1,700 non gyn cytology and 3,861 gyn cytology cases a year, with a projected increase in volume of non-gyn cytopathology.
Qualified applicants with leadership skills may find leadership opportunities available.
Qualifications
- Board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
- Qualified to obtain an unrestricted medical license in Pennsylvania.
Responsibilities
- General surgical pathology (excluding autopsy, renal, hematopathology and dermatopathology).
- Cytology including rapid on site evaluations.
- Frozen section evaluation
- AP/CP On call duties shared with the other pathologists in the group.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Pathology — Physician Career Context
In Pennsylvania, the Physician weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$309k (366 salary observations; 2,498 listings), vs ~$294k nationally (13,718 salary observations; 56,708 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-11-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Butler
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $266k
- Typical market rent
- $1,018/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 22 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 94.7
- State income tax
- Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Pittsburgh, PA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.