🇧🇷 Orthopaedic surgeon pay
in Latin America.
Checked 19 October 2026 · only Brazil has an orthopaedic figure we could verify
Brazil: formal employees only.
Portal Salário processes the official CAGED employment records of Brazil’s Ministry of Labour. For orthopaedic and trauma doctors (CBO 2252-70) hired under a formal CLT contract, it reports the base monthly salary below for August 2025 to July 2026, from 620 hirings and dismissals (274 and 346). The typical contract is 20 hours a week.
| Measure | Monthly base salary | Annual (× 12) | Annual in US dollars | Income tax |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First quartile | R$4,500 | R$54,000 | US$10,808 | R$0 (0.0%) |
| Median | R$6,484 | R$77,808 | US$15,573 | R$5,220 (6.7%) |
| Average | R$8,111 | R$97,338 | US$19,481 | R$11,012 (11.3%) |
| Third quartile | R$11,464 | R$137,568 | US$27,533 | R$22,076 (16.0%) |
Base salary only: no bonuses, extra shifts, private consultations or second jobs. Contractors (PJ) and self-employed doctors are not in the CLT data, so this table cannot show what surgeons in private practice earn. A 20-hour contract is part-time. Income tax comes from this site’s Brazil model on the annual figure; employee social contributions (INSS) and the 13th-month salary are not included. US dollar values use the 2026-10-12 reference rate. Portal Salário ↗ · How Brazil’s tax model works ↗
Mexico: all medical specialists, not orthopaedics.
Mexico’s Ministry of Economy publishes household-survey (INEGI ENOE) earnings by occupation. For all “Médicos especialistas (2412)” combined, about 119,000 people, the average monthly pay was MX$12,900 in 2026 Q1, working about 33.9 hours a week. The previous quarter (2025 Q4) showed MX$7,400, so the series is volatile and we do not compute tax on it.
This is not an orthopaedic figure. It mixes every specialty and includes informal work. Data México ↗
Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru and the rest.
Our searches found no verifiable orthopaedic surgeon figure for these countries. They returned only job-board estimates and single job advertisements, which we do not publish. A news summary of Medscape’s international compensation report gives all-physician averages for Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, but we could not read the original report or confirm its year, so we do not quote it here.
How to read this.
Public records in Latin America mostly capture salaried posts in hospitals and clinics. Doctors can combine several posts with private work, which formal employment records do not capture, so these figures describe salaried posts, not total income. If you have a citable survey, please send it through the corrections page.