Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc...
by MagnumOpus on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:54AM
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> 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...
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...