Description
SEAK’s 2021 Survey of Expert Witness Fees is available for immediate download as an E-Book. Order today.
The 2021 Survey of Expert Witness Fees includes data from almost 1,100 experts in over 250 areas of expertise. This 212 page E-Book gives you the hard information to answer these critical questions:
- Am I charging enough?
- Should I raise my expert witness rates?
- How much should I charge for an expert witness retainer?
- Should I require counsel to sign a written retention contract?
- What is my earning potential in my discipline?
- How likely is it that I will experience collections difficulties?
- Should I accept credit cards?
Specifically, the 2021 Survey of Expert Witness Fees includes:
- Expert witness rates for trial, deposition, and file review/preparation (average, median, high, and low);
- Retainer amounts (average, median, high, and low);
- Frequency and results of rate increases;
- Most money billed on a single case (average, median and high);
- Typical total billings on a single case (average, median, high and low);
- Percentage of expert witnesses requiring counsel to sign a written retention contract;
- Percentage of expert witnesses experiencing collection difficulties; and
- Percentage of expert witnesses accepting credit cards.
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The list of the specialties/areas of expertise covered in the fee survey and the number of responses for each specialty are as follows:
Accident Reconstruction |
32 |
Accounting |
11 |
Actuarial |
1 |
Addiction Medicine |
12 |
Addiction Psychiatry |
4 |
Advertising |
2 |
Agriculture |
5 |
Allergy & Immunology |
6 |
Anesthesiology |
19 |
Appraisal & Valuation |
20 |
Aquatics Safety |
1 |
Architecture |
15 |
Athletics & Recreation |
7 |
Automotive |
11 |
Aviation & Aerospace |
10 |
Banking |
11 |
Bariatric Surgery |
2 |
Biomechanics |
4 |
Business Damages |
12 |
Business Operations |
15 |
Business Valuation |
7 |
Cardiology |
16 |
Cardiothoracic Surgery |
4 |
Chemistry & Chemicals |
9 |
Chiropractic |
8 |
Colon & Rectal Surgery |
3 |
Computers/Information Technology |
15 |
Construction/Construction Defects |
63 |
Correctional Healthcare |
8 |
Critical Care Medicine |
10 |
Critical Care Surgery |
3 |
Cybersecurity |
2 |
Dentist |
15 |
Dermatology |
5 |
Diagnostic Radiology |
4 |
Dram Shop & Alcohol Services |
1 |
Economics |
17 |
Education & Schools |
12 |
Electricity /Electrician |
10 |
Electronics |
7 |
Electrophysiology |
2 |
Elevators & Escalators |
1 |
Emergency Medical Services |
13 |
Emergency Medical Toxicology |
2 |
Emergency Medicine |
65 |
Employment |
19 |
Endocrinology |
2 |
Engineering |
99 |
Environmental |
12 |
Family Medicine |
23 |
Financial |
21 |
Fire |
8 |
Firearms & Ballistics |
4 |
Food |
6 |
Foot & Ankle Surgery |
1 |
Forensic Pathology |
4 |
Forensic Psychiatry |
13 |
Forensic Psychology |
9 |
Forensic Science |
14 |
Fraud |
14 |
Gastroenterology |
7 |
General Medical Practice |
3 |
General Surgery |
22 |
Geriatric Psychiatry |
4 |
Geriatrics |
16 |
Gynecology |
9 |
Hand Surgery |
6 |
Health Informatics |
1 |
Hematology |
5 |
Horses |
2 |
Hospice and Palliative Care |
6 |
Hospitalist |
20 |
Hotel & Restaurant |
12 |
Human Factors |
8 |
Hydrology |
3 |
Industrial Design |
2 |
Industrial Hygiene |
5 |
Infectious Diseases |
10 |
Insurance |
30 |
Intellectual Property |
29 |
Internal Medicine |
37 |
Internet |
2 |
Interventional Cardiology |
3 |
Laboratories & Testing |
3 |
Land Surveying |
4 |
Landscape Design |
5 |
Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice |
15 |
Legal |
12 |
Life Care Planning |
36 |
Management |
9 |
Manufacturing |
11 |
Maritime /Boating |
8 |
Marketing |
4 |
Medical Billing/Medical Coding |
9 |
Medical Management/Hospital Liability |
12 |
Metallurgy |
7 |
Meteorology |
8 |
Midwife |
3 |
Mining |
2 |
Mold |
1 |
Motorcycle |
4 |
Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine |
7 |
Nephrology |
2 |
Neurological Surgery |
15 |
Neurology |
22 |
Neurophysiology |
4 |
Neuropsychiatry |
2 |
Neuropsychology |
21 |
Neuroradiology |
6 |
NONE OF THE ABOVE |
146 |
Nuclear Medicine |
1 |
Nurse |
24 |
Nurse Anesthetist |
3 |
Nurse Practitioner |
8 |
Nursing Administration |
4 |
Nursing Home Administration /Long Term Care |
13 |
Obstetrics & Gynecology |
28 |
Occupational Medicine |
8 |
Occupational Therapy |
2 |
Oil and Gas |
7 |
Oncology |
13 |
Ophthalmology |
12 |
Oral Surgery |
4 |
Orthopedic Surgery |
44 |
Otolaryngology |
10 |
Otology |
2 |
Pain Management - Medicine |
29 |
Pathology |
4 |
Pediatric Anesthesiology |
2 |
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine |
5 |
Pediatric Emergency Medicine |
8 |
Pediatric Neurology |
2 |
Pediatric Psychiatry |
4 |
Pediatric Pulmonology |
3 |
Pediatrics |
17 |
Periodontics |
3 |
Pharmaceutical Regulation/Research |
4 |
Pharmacist |
17 |
Pharmacology |
7 |
Pharmacology- Clinical |
7 |
Physical Medicine & Rehab |
19 |
Physical Therapy |
10 |
Physician Assistant |
5 |
Plastic Surgery |
8 |
Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck |
6 |
Plumbing |
6 |
Podiatry |
3 |
Police Practices & Procedures |
10 |
Premises Liability |
22 |
Preventive Medicine |
3 |
Products Liability |
11 |
Prosthetics |
2 |
Psychiatry |
35 |
Psychology |
23 |
Public Health |
4 |
Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine |
2 |
Pulmonary Disease |
6 |
Radiation Oncology |
1 |
Radiology |
24 |
Real Estate |
26 |
Reproductive Endocrinology |
2 |
Rheumatology |
1 |
Risk Management |
17 |
Safety |
40 |
School Safety |
10 |
Securities & Investments |
10 |
Security |
17 |
Sleep Medicine |
11 |
Slip Trip & Fall |
10 |
Social Work |
5 |
Software |
9 |
Speech-Language Pathology |
2 |
Spine Surgery & Spine Care |
15 |
Sports Medicine |
8 |
Statistics |
7 |
Technology |
7 |
Telecommunications |
5 |
Thoracic Surgery |
1 |
Toxicology |
18 |
Transportation |
15 |
Trauma Surgery |
9 |
Travel & Tourism |
3 |
Ultrasound |
3 |
Urgent Care Medicine |
6 |
Urology & Urological Surgery |
8 |
Vascular & Interventional Radiology |
5 |
Vascular Surgery |
4 |
Video |
3 |
Vocational Rehabilitation |
27 |
Warnings & Labels |
4 |
Wound Care |
18 |