Salary and Stuff like that

[Guest wannabedoc]

Hiya guys, awesome board!

 

I have been looking here and talking with my friends about my choice to become a doctor. In this message board you talk about how as a resident you don't make much.

 

So am I to assume that once your finished your residency and get that magical title of doctor of whatever, that you make substantially more money ? Do not take this question the wrong way. I am simply looking at all my possible careers and for the vast majority of them I can see what is involved and the ending pay off. Medicine is a long haul so I am simply curious as to what the benefits are, besides the obvious fact that you would be doing something to help people, and a lifetime job which you would have to love to do.

 

I am genuinely interested in science and I love to work with people. I am just interested in after all that work, 4 years undergrad and 3-4 years med school, 4-7 years residency, what would a typical doctor be making. Something like a surgeon or ER guy.

 

Thanks guys,

 

Dave

[Guest Ian Wong]

Hi,

 

There's numerous links in the Premed101.com FAQ, which can be clicked on at the top of this forum. At the bottom of that message, you'll see lots of links regarding salaries. A surgeon or an ER doc will probably comfortably be billing in the six-figures, but will take home considerably less than that depending on their overhead costs (very little in Emerg Med) and taxes.

 

Ian

UBC, Med 3