Physician Assistant - Orthopedi

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician Assistant - Orthopedi at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Orthopedic Surgery (PA) — ranked against 325 active Orthopedic Surgery (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

In Illinois, the Orthopedic Surgery weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$131k (14 salary observations; 16 listings), vs ~$140k nationally (205 salary observations; 459 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-02-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Orthopedic Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 56% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

Orthopedic Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 6.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$146k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $146k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).