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The NPV analysis was conducted for 29 pediatric fields across 4 promotion scenarios (early promotion, baseline promotion, stalled promotion, and no promotion), 3 salary percentiles (25th, 50th, and 75th), and 3 career lengths (standard, part time, and early retirement).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Exposure<\/jats:title>\n Promotion timeline and pediatric subspecialty.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Main Outcome and Measures<\/jats:title>\n The outcome was NPV of lifetime earnings as measured in constant 2025 dollars.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n A total of 19\u202f111 academic pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists were included from the compensation dataset. Early promotion consistently yielded the highest NPV across all subspecialties and salary percentiles (median NPV, $7\u202f621\u202f223.50), while remaining at the assistant professor rank for an entire career was associated with the lowest NPV (median, $6\u202f967\u202f428.72). Baseline promotion NPV peaked at a mean (SD) of $9\u202f364\u202f986.25 ($695\u202f347.50), while no promotion NPV was significantly lower (mean [SD], $7\u202f093\u202f248.02 [$475\u202f237.71]). Stalled promotion reduced the median NPV by $500\u202f000 to $1.5 million; no promotion led to losses exceeding $2 million to $3 million in high-paying subspecialties, such as cardiology, critical care, and neonatology. Sensitivity analyses and Monte Carlo simulations found that delayed promotion was negatively associated with lifetime earnings under all tested scenarios.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>\n In this cross-sectional study of academic pediatricians, promotion timing was associated with lifetime earnings and often more influential than subspecialty or salary percentile. The findings suggest that physicians who were never promoted may need to work an additional 10 years to match the earnings of peers promoted via a baseline promotion trajectory. 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