On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Scott Stroz <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Sorry, but when even the worst doctor > > in the US can pull in several hundred thousand dollars a year, the > supposed > > altruistic reasons for persuing such a career are kind of hard to > swallow. > > If you are interested in actual data, here is the Merritt Hawkins > survey for 2008 on primary care physician salaries: > http://www.merritthawkins.com/pdf/2008-mha-survey-primary-care.pdf > If you want to see numbers on all physicians, there are plenty of salary surveys by specialty out there: http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm http://www.cejkasearch.com/compensation/amga_physician_compensation_survey.htm http://www.physicianssearch.com/physician/salary2.html http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos074.htm#earnings I'd love to see the full MGMA data, but that's $500. The BLS link has a small slice of it, and what that slice shows is that doctors can make a ton of money after just a couple of years in practice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296661 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
