Start onboarding: 12 min
ANNUAL
COMPENSATION
CONTRACT · CLEARPANEL
$624,000
STATE EMPLOYED · CCHCS
$373,632
KAISER PERMANENTE
$359k–$370k
Scenario at $300/hr, 40 hrs/week, gross. Set your own hours ↓
A psychiatry staffing agency

We fetch your credentials from the registries. You confirm them.

ClearPanel is a direct panel for psychiatrists who want California inpatient, state hospital, correctional and telepsychiatry work. Your credential file is assembled from the registries, confirmed by you, and reused for every placement.

Give us your name, date of birth and California license number, plus consent to verify you. We assemble your credential file from the registries; you confirm it and e-sign. That is the whole form.

Start with just 3 details →See exactly what you'd earn
~12 minTypical time to complete, start to signature
1 fileOne credential file, reused for every placement
Margin disclosedThe agency margin, stated in full on every rate
● Auto-fetched, we retrieve it● Confirm, you check it● You provide, only you know it

One credential file, assembled from the registries, confirmed by you, and reused at every placement.

Now forming · The founding panel

ClearPanel is assembling its first panel of psychiatrists now. Complete your credential file once, here, and it is submitted first when placements open. No placement is promised until a contract is in place, and we will say so plainly at every step.

PANEL STATUS: FORMING Join the founding panel →
How this chain actually works: One company holds the statewide prison staffing contract and sets the rate card. Firms like ours do not hold it: we staff underneath it, recruiting and employing the psychiatrist as a subcontractor agency in its network. ClearPanel works in that supplier layer, at the market's rates and margins, with the full economics stated.

What a year pays at your rate

Set your rate and your hours. The figure below is what the year pays at those settings, and the panel on the right shows every layer of the hour it comes from.

Your take-home pay, gross, at these settings
$624,000
a year · $52,000 a month
$300/hr × 40 hrs/week × 52 weeks

$300/hr is today's mid-market: live October 2026 postings for California correctional psychiatry run $240 to $350/hr. The implied all-in rate the state pays moves with your rate: your pay plus $110 of layers, shown in full on the right.

Read this part carefully: the figure above is gross contractor pay, before taxes, in a scenario, not a live offer. As a 1099 contractor there is no employer pension and no benefits package attached: you fund your own retirement and health cover out of this number. The comparison below is built with that stated, not hidden. Your confirmed offer shows the exact facility rate before you sign anything.

How the hourly rate breaks down

The estimated all-in rate the state pays for your hour is $410. Here is where every dollar of it goes.

The contract manager's fee, off the top before the supplier layer is paid (benchmark default: 5% of the all-in rate)$20
The agency layer: what the staffing agency keeps. ClearPanel's own fee is $75 of it, fixed and disclosed at the benchmark split; the rest is the agency's own costs of the work, malpractice, credentialing and payroll (est. $15)$90
You, the psychiatrist$300

Check: $20 + $90 + $300 = $410 (est.), the implied 2026 all-in rate.

THE LAYER SPLIT

Move the slider: your pay and the state's all-in rate do not move. Only the split changes. Every dollar the manager holds is a dollar the supplier layer cannot spend on recruiting, credentialing, or supporting you. The manager's actual fee is confidential; the starting point is the published benchmark, 5 percent.

Reference: audited registry rate, last published benchmark (Auditor 2024-114, FY2024-25)$359/hr
The last audited figure. Advertised pay has risen since that audit, which is why the stack above is built on today's postings. For scale, the same report puts the loaded cost of a state-employed psychiatrist at $246/hr.

The same year in a salaried post

The comparison that matters is not another agency; it is a salaried post. Employed posts pay less cash and include what contract work does not: a pension, benefits, and paid leave. Contract work pays the figure above, for the hours you work. Both are set out below, on the same basis. Employed salaries below are pro-rated to the hours you set above, so every column works the same week you do. A salary's pension and benefits do not shrink in proportion to hours; the cash is printed, the rest of the trade is yours to weigh.

Contract work, through ClearPanel (scenario)
$624,000
at $300/hr and 40 hrs/week
Gross per year at your settings above. 1099 contractor: no employer pension, no benefits package; you fund your own. No on-call on these contracts. When the shift ends, the work ends.
State employment: CCHCS psychiatrist
$373,632
Full time, 40 hrs/week
Per year, board certified, telehealth and HQ posts; up to $485,721 for onsite inpatient posts. W-2 salary with pension and state benefits; 4/10 shifts. Source: CCHCS careers page, October 2026.
Employed: Kaiser Permanente (TPMG)
$359k to $370k
Full time, 40 hrs/week
Adult psychiatry, Northern California, plus incentives up to $24,200. W-2 with pension and full benefits; your own patient panel, and the inbox that comes with it. Source: current TPMG posting, accessed October 2026.
Community locum work, via agencies
$185 to $230
Per hour, advertised, October 2026 postings: the going range outside the correctional system. Shorter assignments, terms set by each agency, and the spread is not printed.
Per hour, same week
YOU, THROUGH CLEARPANEL
$300/hr
STATE EMPLOYMENT (CCHCS)
~$180/hr
KAISER PERMANENTE (TPMG)
~$175/hr
Employed per-hour figures are the full-time salary converted at 40 hrs/week, before the value of pension and benefits. Yours is the contract rate at your settings above.

What this work does not ask of you

The limits below are part of every role on the panel, and they are stated with the rate.

No on-call
These contracts carry no call. Nights and weekends are yours, unless you choose to book them.
Your patients cannot call you
All contact happens inside the facility, on its systems, during your shift. Nobody has your number, and when the shift ends, the work ends.
No insurance paperwork
No prior authorizations, no billing, no claims to chase. The state is the payer, and the paperwork is ours.
A set schedule
Fixed shifts, including 4x10 patterns in this system. Your week is knowable before it starts.
No practice overhead
No office, no staff, no rent, no collections. You arrive, you practice, you leave.

These describe the contract roles ClearPanel staffs in the California correctional system. Your confirmed offer states the terms for your specific assignment before you sign anything.

Sources: every figure above traces to one of these, nothing else is used: California State Auditor Report 2024-114: $359/hr registry psychiatrist effective cost to the state (Salinas Valley State Prison, FY2024-25), the last published audited benchmark, and $246/hr loaded cost for a state-employed psychiatrist. Pay, $240 to $350/hr with a $300 default: current advertised correctional psychiatry postings, live, October 2026 (Stockton $335, Corcoran $290, Sacramento and Wasco $300, Vacaville up to $350). Historical context only: the documented September 2020 telepsychiatry rate approved through this chain was $230/hr. The contract manager's fee is a benchmark estimate, 5 percent of the all-in rate (the figure most often cited for healthcare supplier-funded arrangements, within the published 2.5 to 6 percent vendor-neutral MSP range), about $20/hr at the $300 default; the manager's actual fee is confidential. ClearPanel's figures are a scenario, not a live offer: our agency fee is fixed and disclosed at $75/hr, inside an agency layer of $90/hr; the layer's remaining $15 (est.) is the agency's own costs of the work, malpractice, credentialing and payroll, not a separate charge on the hour. The implied 2026 all-in rate is your pay plus $110: $410 at the $300 default. Check the arithmetic: $20 + $90 + $300 = $410. State employment: CCHCS careers page, October 2026 ($373,632 per year, board certified, telehealth and HQ; up to $485,721 onsite inpatient). Kaiser Permanente: current TPMG adult psychiatry posting, Northern California (full-time salary range $358,919 to $370,020, additional incentives up to $24,200), accessed October 2026. Community locum work: $185 to $230/hr advertised, October 2026 postings.

The differentiator

We fetch what the registries already know.

Agents fetch your record from the registries and keep fetching, so your file stays current without you chasing it. You confirm what comes back; that is the whole job.

How ClearPanel works

  • 3 details + consent to start: name, DOB, CA license no.
  • We fetch license, DEA, certification, training & screens
  • You confirm a pre-filled record, correct anything wrong in place
  • You add only contact, preferences, availability & pay preference
  • One file follows you to every ClearPanel placement

What we fetch, what you confirm, and what you provide

MB
Medical Board of California Auto-fetched
License status, issue & expiry, practice address, disciplinary & enforcement history as published by the Board.
DEA
DEA registration & NPI Registry (NPPES) Auto-fetched
Registration status, schedules, NPI, taxonomy and practice locations on file.
ABPN
Board certification, education & training Auto-fetched Confirm
ABPN / ABMS certification, medical school and residency / fellowship history where published. You confirm it's yours and fix any gap, you don't re-upload diplomas.
OIG
Exclusion & sanctions screening Auto-fetched
OIG LEIE, SAM.gov exclusions and NPDB continuous query enrollment (with your authorization). Re-screened automatically, not once and forgotten.
HX
Malpractice & work history Auto-fetched where published Confirm
Published malpractice and Board actions pulled in; you confirm the timeline and explain anything a facility will ask about anyway, once, in your own words.
YOU
Only you know these You provide
Best contact details, settings you want (inpatient / tele / correctional / state hospital), geography, hours, earliest start, rate floor, how you want to be paid, and an emergency contact. That's the only typing we ask for.
Start here

How prison psychiatry staffing works today

STEP 1

Vacant posts

More than half the psychiatrist posts at some California prisons are vacant, so the state pays premium rates for contract doctors.

STEP 2

One contract holder

One company holds the statewide staffing contract. It employs no doctors: it sets the rates and takes a fee on every hour.

STEP 3

Agencies underneath

Agencies recruit and employ you, and keep the difference between the state's rate and your pay, a figure you never see.

US, IN STEP 3'S LAYER

ClearPanel

One firm in that agency layer, not another layer below it: the full economics printed on the invoice, and your credential file fetched from the registries.

Here is the same hour of work, with every layer priced.

Representative roles psychiatrists join the panel for

Current advertised pay for California correctional psychiatry runs $240–$350/hr (live postings, October 2026), the range shown on each role below, not a per-role promise. Your exact rate is the one printed on a confirmed offer. Join once and you're considered for roles like these as they open, your one file covers every role.

Telepsychiatry

Telepsychiatry, statewide hub

Remote coverage for correctional and state facilities. Work from home, set schedule, malpractice included.

$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
On-site · Central Valley

Inpatient psychiatry, Stockton / Vacaville corridor

On-site inpatient units, weekday rounding, call shared across the panel.

$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
On-site · State hospital

State hospital, forensic & acute

Longer assignments, stable census, team-based care with full credentialing handled from your one file.

$240–350 / hr advertised (Oct 2026 postings)
Onboarding

One form, five short steps. We do not ask for anything a registry can supply.

Work through it below, this is the actual flow, in order. Fields are tagged so you can always see why you're being asked for something. The attestations, authorizations and gate-clearance information are steps 1, 3 and 5 of this one flow. Joining the founding panel completes your credentialing now, and your file is submitted first when placements open; a placement itself begins only once a contract is in place.

Step 1 of 5: Who you are, and permission to fetch

    Three details are enough to find you in the registries. Everything else on this step is the consent that lets us lawfully pull and verify your record.

    You provide As it appears on your license.
    Used only to disambiguate your registry records. Never shown to facilities.
    Auto-fetched key This number matches your registry records. Board status itself is verified at the Board in Step 2.

    That's it for this step. We don't even ask for your email yet; contact details come later, in the one step that's actually yours to fill in.

    We check each source at the primary source, live. The registries that publish a public lookup return real data below; the ones that do not are marked for your confirmation rather than filled in.

    Every line below carries its source. If a line is wrong, edit it in place. We re-check your edit at the source.

    How to read this record: each line names its source. Lines fetched just now show the actual registry return for your details. Lines marked Confirm could not be pulled from a public registry (the Medical Board does not publish license status for automated lookup), so they link you to the source and ask you to check and complete them. Edit anything in place; your confirmed version is what facilities rely on.

    The only section that's genuinely typing, because no registry knows where you want to work, when, or how to pay you.

    For your secure panel link, not a recruiter's mailing list.
    We never send you a role below this. And you see the bill rate on every offer.
    Payment bank details are collected securely after you accept a role, not on this form.

    Read, sign once, done. These are the same attestations every facility requires, collected once here, reused from your file, not re-signed per placement.

    What you're signing
    • Credentialing authorization & release (ongoing verification, including NPDB continuous query)
    • Attestation: licensure, exclusions, malpractice and work-history answers as confirmed in Step 3
    • Panel agreement: agency margin disclosed in full, no non-compete on your own job search, leave the panel at any time
    • Code of conduct & confidentiality for facility placements

    Your information is stored privately in our credentialing system and used only to credential you for placements you choose.

    How this flow works by design: with your authorization, verification is fetched from primary sources and kept current automatically, expiring licenses and screenings are re-checked without you re-uploading anything. The fetch above is live for the registries that publish a public lookup (the NPI Registry and the federal exclusion list); the remaining items are verified at source and confirmed by you once. Your summary download is generated on your device from what you entered and confirmed here.

    For facilities & public systems

    You get one confirmed, source-verified file, with the fetch trail attached and the agency margin disclosed in full, instead of a spread you have to reverse-engineer.

    • Faster fill: panel members are pre-verified, not recruited from cold
    • Audit-ready: every field names its primary source and fetch date
    • Staying current: continuous screening, not a file that ages in a drawer
    See the clinician flow your hires will use

    Questions psychiatrists ask first

    Why do you only need three details to start?

    Because your name, DOB and license number are the keys every registry already uses. With your consent, they unlock your Board record, DEA, NPI, certification and screens. Everything else is already on record at the source.

    What if something fetched about me is wrong?

    Correct it in Step 3, in place. Your correction is re-verified at the primary source and becomes your confirmed record. Registries do contain errors: that's exactly why the model is “fetch and confirm,” not “fetch and assume.”

    Do I have to upload my diploma, CV or certificates?

    No. Education, training and certification are fetched where published and confirmed by you. If a specific facility requires a document no registry holds, we ask for that single document, by name, with the reason.

    How does the agency margin work?

    We charge the same agency margin the market charges, and we print it in full: every offer shows the facility bill rate, the margin, your pay and the itemized costs (malpractice, credentialing, payroll) on one line. If the numbers change, you see it before you accept, not on a pay stub after.

    Am I locked in?

    No. Joining the panel is not exclusivity. Work elsewhere, search on your own, or leave the panel at any time. Your confirmed file summary is yours to download and keep.

    Who sees my date of birth and screening results?

    Your DOB is used for registry matching and is never shown to facilities. Screening results go to a facility only as part of your confirmed credential file for a role you've accepted, and only after you've reviewed them.