Physician Per Diem*
Listed compensation
$100/hr
The week · per this posting
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Job Description
The Medical Department on the Manhattan campus is seeking a per diem Physician to join our team.
The per diem Physician will provide medical coverage in our Manhattan long-term care facility, during off-hours. The regular weekday and weekend rate is $ 100 per hour and overnight on call rate is $ 225 per shift, from 5 pm to 9 am and $ 800 on Saturday/Sunday in-house..
Key Responsibilities
The physician will provide medical coverage for a long-term care facility in Manhattan during off-hours. Responsibilities include managing patient care and responding to on-call needs as required.
Requirements
The candidate must be a qualified physician capable of providing medical oversight in a clinical setting. Experience in long-term care environments is expected for this per diem role.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician Per Diem* at the employer a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 25% in Internal Medicine — ranked against 1,260 active Internal Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.
Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context
In New York, the Internal Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$267k (58 salary observations; 137 listings), vs ~$267k nationally (656 salary observations; 3,104 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 40 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 15% are remote, 45% have no call, 43% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$208k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $193k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- No call
- No weekends
Living in New York
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $876k
- Typical market rent
- $4,154/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 40 min
- State income tax
- Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.