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General Surgery Residency Programs — The Residency Consult

§ Specialty

General Surgery

368programs

Compare 368 General Surgery residency programs by salary, cost of living, and program size.

§ NRMP Match

National Match results

General Surgery · 2026 NRMP Main Match · all U.S. programs

Positions offered

1,807

+29vs 2025

Fill rate

99.8%

+0.0 ptsvs 2025

Applicants per position

1.9

Total applicants ÷ positions

+0.1

vs 2025

Matched applicant mix

U.S. MD seniors1,11162%
U.S. DO seniors29817%
U.S. IMG855%
Non-U.S. IMG1287%
Other18210%

Source: NRMP Main Match, 2026. National figures across all programs in this specialty — not specific to any one program. Categories follow NRMP reporting: “U.S. MD” and “U.S. DO” are current-year seniors; “Other” is chiefly prior-year graduates and applicants outside the listed categories. The bar accounts for all filled positions.

Metric

Map · Colored by Salary

$47,000$101,200

Top 25 by Salary

01
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program
NewYork Presbyterain/Columbia Univ Med C · New York, NY
$101,200
02
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program
Stanford Univ Med Ctr · Stanford, CA
$96,948ʼ26
03
New York-Presbyterian/Queens Program
NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens · Flushing, NY
$92,400
04
University of California (San Francisco) Program
UCSF Med Ctr · San Francisco, CA
$92,284
05
University of California San Francisco (East Bay) Program
UCSF-East Bay General Surgery Residency · Oakland, CA
$91,506
06
St John's Episcopal Hospital-South Shore Program
St John's Episcopal Hospital · Far Rockaway, NY
$89,475
07
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program
UCLA - Department of Surgery · Los Angeles, CA
$89,261
08
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Program
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Med C · New York, NY
$89,100
09
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program
Icahn Sch of Med at Mount Sinai · New York, NY
$88,703
10
University of Washington Program
Univ of Washington Sch of Med · Seattle, WA
$87,708ʼ26
11
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program
Montefiore Med Ctr · Bronx, NY
$87,586ʼ26
12
University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program
UCSD Med Ctr · La Jolla, CA
$86,819
13
Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program
Yale New Haven Hospital · New Haven, CT
$86,080
14
University of California (Irvine) Program
UC Irvine Med Ctr · Orange, CA
$85,734
15
Sutter Health/Sutter Roseville Medical Center Program
Sutter Roseville Medical Center · Roseville, CA
$85,552
16
Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital Program
Brigham and Women's Hosp · Boston, MA
$84,579ʼ26
17
Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital Program
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA
$84,579ʼ26
18
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at South Shore Univesrity Hospital Program
South Shore University Hospital · Bayshore, NY
$84,488
19
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program
North Shore Univ Hosp · Manhasset, NY
$84,488
20
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital Program
Staten Island Univ Hosp · Staten Island, NY
$84,448
21
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Program
New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist · Brooklyn, NY
$84,315
22
Kaiser Permanente Southern California (Los Angeles) Program
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA
$84,277
23
BronxCare Health System Program
BronxCare Health System · Bronx, NY
$83,796
24
NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine Program
50 Medical Park Dr · Birmingham, AL
$83,300
25
Maimonides Medical Center Program
Maimonides Med Ctr · Brooklyn, NY
$83,089

Year marks (e.g. ʼ25 = AY 2025–26) show the academic year a salary was published for. Unmarked salaries are program-reported figures without a verified year.

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