Frequently asked questions
How the directory is built, how pay is reported, and what we will and will not publish.
- Does an agency pay to be listed on Locums Compass?
- No. Listing is free, cannot be bought, accelerated, or declined by the agency. Every US locum tenens agency we can document is listed under the same published criteria.
- What do locum tenens physicians actually get paid?
- Published hourly ranges run roughly $90 to $500 depending on specialty, acuity and call burden. Each rate range on this site is marked sourced, estimate, or unsourced — we never fill an unsourced range with a placeholder number.
- What happens to an agency that is delisted?
- Its page stays up and shows the reason and the date. Silent removal would let the record be edited by whoever complains loudest.
- Who writes the guides and rate pages?
- A practising locum physician, named on every page, with a second practising physician credited on the clinical review line.