2007-08-06 04:09:44 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
The average salary of a person with a professional doctorate (MD, DO,JD, DVM etc) is $100,000 per year.
Some earn more and some less.
According to the US Dept. of Labor, the top paying jobs in the United States are physicians and number 9 is over $143,000
Anesthesiologists are the top paying of the physicians with annual average income of over $145,600, Pediatricians (#13) appears to be the lowest paid physician at $136,600
The path to physcian requires first a bachelor's degree (it needn't be in the major pre-med) followed by 2 years of years of classroom time and 2 years of clinical time (4-years to the MD) followed by an internship/residency/fellowship of 3-7 years.
The total education time after HS is 11-15 years (some of which you earn an income). The typical medical school grad leaves with over $100,000 in student loan debt.
For those who are all about earning the highest, this is the path. But, a simple love of money isn't going to be enough motivator to make it through the process -- a medical education is very demanding.
2007-08-06 04:38:16 · answer #1 · answered by CoachT 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can go to Salary.com to see the local/national average salary of a general physician.
2007-08-06 04:35:41 · answer #2 · answered by ^_^ 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋