5 Highest Paid Medical Specialties in the World

3. Critical Care Medicine

National Average Salary: $384,009

Critical care medicine is a medical specialty focused on seriously or critically ill patients with life-threatening conditions. Critical care physicians lead multidisciplinary teams in ICU settings, to provide life support, monitoring, and end-of-life care. Patients are admitted to the ICU for conditions such as cardiovascular instability, sepsis, or multiple organ failure. It is one of the highest-paid medical specialties in the world.