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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by jac241 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:58PM (#22057238)
Compared to what's on levels.fyi, most specialties will earn less than software engineers. Only cardiologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and the surgical specialties will have a chance at out earning someone at FAANG.
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by ska on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:44PM (#22057703)
To be fair, levels.fyi is a very poor indicator of salary levels across the industry, whereas salary reporting on physicians isn't.

Median salary for physicians is almost certainly significantly higher than for software engineers, but it is less obvious what happens when you factor in length of career, debt load etc.

Neither group tend to work nominal (40h) weeks either...

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by MagnumOpus on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:54AM (#22063686)
> most specialties will earn less than software engineers

Nah. The average salary of a software engineer is about $104k per year (remember, <10% of IT people work at FAANGs).

The average earnings of doctors according to Medscape is around $290k, and even primary care doctors earn $237k per year on average. [1]

> Only [1/10th of docs] will have a chance at out earning someone at FAANG.

And FAANG is a similarly small highly-paid fraction of the software workforce as well, so it is comparing like-for-like again. And average pay for those medical specialties according to [1] is $350k to $500k per year, which I bet beats the average pay of even FAANG individual contributors pretty handsomely...

[1]https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overvie...

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by christiansakai on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:50PM (#22059132)
Hmm interesting, I didn't know that
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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by Fomite on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:07PM (#22059305)
There are some specialties that are actively pretty poor financial decisions. Family Medicine and Infectious Diseases are two of them.
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