My good friend’s wife is a doctor working in internal medicine at a Denver hospital; while I don’t know exactly (never asked) I believe she makes around 200 k$/year based upon conversations we have had.
Another (not as close) friend is a doctor also working in internal medicine but instead works at a suburban clinic; I would guess she makes something between 140 and 160 k per year based on their lifestyle. She could make significantly more and be putting a lot away in savings.
My children go to school with a family where the dad is a surgeon (I don’t know what kind), and that family is loaded. If they do not have any inherited wealth, I would guess he makes well north of 250 k per year based on their lifestyle.
All anecdotal and not very accurate, but what can you do?
I guess I am in the wrong job.
At least I will not be pursued by gold digging men.
A friend of mine is a physician, and it really does depend on where/what they end up doing as a practice. He was a general family practitioner and he did not make a ton of money. Being his own office, and being he’s a big softie who saw mostly Medicaid/Medicare patients, after still paying loans and malpractice insurance and business expenses, he cleared about $25,000 the last year he practiced. He has been semi-retired doing other things and let his license lapse since. His partner, on the other hand, has a lucrative psychiatry practice and together they’re quite comfortable.
I work with doctors. Whatever they make, it isn’t enough, given what their lives are like. The facility I work at now has hospitalists, so it helps. In places where that is not the case, doctors do clinic hours AND hospital hours. The small hospital I worked at had 4 physicians in the town, those guys pulled full clinic days, two or more ER rotations per week, and had to be on call for their hospital patients 24/7. That’s no way to live.