Income across the specialties?

[Guest D373]

Has anyone come across accurate income information for Canadian docs in the different specialties (other than the CMA med student centre)?

[Guest Kirsteen]

Hi there,

 

British Columbia publishes annual numbers on physician expenditures (provincial billings) across the different specialties. It separates the expenditures by specialties and then by billing amounts, i.e., less than $10K, $10K-49.9K, all the way up to $600K and greater. This information used to be available on the BC Health website.

 

Cheers,

Kirsteen

[Guest westsimba]

Hey Kirsteen

 

Can you give us the link for the BC physician income?

 

Thanks

[Guest Kirsteen]

Hi there,

 

Here you go:

 

www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/msp/paystats/IRM/irm_manual.pdf

 

Cheers,

Kirsteen

[Guest DrSahsi]

Standard caveat: published physician salaries like these are generalities at best, and are always printed as gross income figures without taking into account taxation, expenditures, and overhead [so they always seem to look fantastic on paper]. The salary of a given physician in a given specialty depends on a huge number of individual factors.

 

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[Guest D373]

Agreed - and it seems that this kind of info (gross fee-for-service government expenditures per doc) is the only sort of info available. Do you know of any better source?

[Guest Kirsteen]

Hi there

 

Do you know of any better source?

Yep: physicians. A number whom I've spoken with will give you an idea of how much they bill (or are salaried) per year, as well as their practice overheads, or the overheads charged by the hospital. Tax rates are, in comparison, relatively easy to figure out, depending on whether the physician is incorporated or not.

 

Cheers,

Kirsteen