Surgeon Salary in Arkansas (2026)

Worth knowing: UAMS Little Rock surgical operations are one of the country's most distinctive single-state academic medical center surgical configurations and a feature most national surgeon compensation surveys understate for AR. UAMS (the only AR academic medical center + the only AR MD-granting institution + UAMS Medical Center ~500 beds + UAMS Cancer Institute Winthrop P. Rockefeller NCI-designated + UAMS Eye Institute + UAMS Multi-Organ Transplant program as the only AR transplant center + UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute + the substantial UAMS COM surgery faculty + UAMS Surgical Education + UAMS Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery + the substantial UAMS robotic surgery program + UAMS-NWA Fayetteville extension surgical training) operates substantial concentrated academic + tertiary surgical practice. UAMS Multi-Organ Transplant program (the only AR transplant center + ~120 kidney + ~50 liver transplants annually + serving as the AR + parts of MO + TN + LA referral hub for substantial portions of AR Delta + rural transplant catchment) supports substantial transplant surgery work. Arkansas Children's Hospital Little Rock (~390 beds + the only AR pediatric Level 1 trauma + the only AR Children's Hospital + Arkansas Children's Northwest Springdale extension campus + the substantial Arkansas Children's Research Institute + the only AR pediatric verified trauma + pediatric tertiary referral center) supports substantial pediatric surgery work. Baptist Health Heart Institute Little Rock (the largest AR private heart program by volume + the substantial post-1980s expansion as one of the country's earliest substantial private-system cardiac programs in a smaller-state market) + CHI St. Vincent Heart Hospital + Mercy Hospital NW Arkansas Rogers + Washington Regional Fayetteville support substantial AR community + tertiary surgical care. The substantial AR surgical referral patterns to Memphis (UTHSC + St. Jude pediatric) + Tulsa (St. Francis + Hillcrest) + St. Louis (Washington University + Mercy) + Dallas (UT Southwestern + Children's Health) reflect AR limited subspecialty surgical depth compared to neighboring state academic centers. AR IMLC since 2017 + AR progressive 2-4.4% top phasing 3.9% by 2026 + AR RTW since 1947 + AR property tax ~0.61% + no state estate tax = the AR surgeon proposition.