How reliable are online job listings? I just looked an ER job listed on MDsearch and it says $200/hr. It is a 12 hr, 15 shift, permanent, hospital job. 12hr x 15 shift x 12 month = 432K. How common is to get an ER job with $200/hr?
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Four things:
1) before everyone else jumps on you - do a search. There's a lot of stuff on here, particularly in the FAQs.
2) totally possible. depends on the location. If you are willing to live somewhere awful, you can def make over $200/h. There's a reason that post is in the middle of nowhere Nebraska. If you want to live somewhere with a tight market (NYC, Boston, SF, Denver, etc), expect to make substantially less.
3) common advice is that advertised jobs aren't the best ones. places that have good jobs (read: happy EPs, low turnover rate, low BS, not seeing a ton of pts/hr) don't have openings often and don't have to advertise their jobs in the throw-aways/online or use recruiters.
4) 15 12 hours shifts ain't nothing.
4) 15 12 hours shifts ain't nothing.
totally disagree - If I was told I had to work 15 12s, I'd laugh and walk away.
Many jobs in Atlanta pay $230-280/hour.Obviously it depends on which city and which hospital, but on average how much can one expect to make in a large city? $150/hour? $100/hour?
To the OP, $200/hr is not hard to come by and 180 hrs (scheduled with potential to work longer shift to document) is too many hours.
To everyone else, I've often wondered why the more "desirable" locations pay less. Physician reimbursement actually isn't a supply and demand market. Blue cross blue shield and Medicare pay the same rates whether 1 doctor wants the job or 10,000 doctors want the job. The only way physician reimbursement is affected by supply and demand is if the contract holder is creating the supply and demand market. I know CMGs will do this but a SDG in a desirable location shouldn't make any less than a SDG in a less desirable location in the same state, assuming similar payor mixes.
totally disagree - If I was told I had to work 15 12s, I'd laugh and walk away.
I think that is what he meant with the double negative. It isn't nothing, meaning it is something, ie it is a lot to work 15 12s. I wouldnt work that schedule either , thats what you work in residency not after (unless you are broke.)
I've heard of academic centers in very desirable locations paying 180-200/hr so I can't imagine that it's that hard to find in the community
For those complaining about hours,180 hrs may be a heavy work load for most, but I know a ER doc who consistently pulls 240+ hrs and I have been assured that these hours are significantly less than his previous gig (80 hrs/wk). Not trolling.
Whoa. That's nuts. You're talking 5 12s a week.......if you do ANY nights, you'd basically be working or sleeping 24/7.
He works 27-28 9 hour shifts per month, essentially all are the night solo coverage shifts. Pretty much has a monopoly on those shifts and this is an urban area as well.
$200 isn't that hard to get. States like Texas tend to pay a lot more than California or the NE. I know of one job in Houston that constantly advertises at $220. Not sure if it's a terrible job or not, but if they're paying that much and have to advertise, something is fishy.
FYI I got a job at $250/hour in a small city with 8-9 hour shifts and about 1.7 patients/hour. It's the best job I've ever had, but it wasn't advertised, and required some phone work to find.
Many jobs in Atlanta pay $230-280/hour.
So jobs in big cities paying a lot aren't that uncommon.
Whoa. I've been interested in academics since day 1, but always heard the pay is crap (relative to community). Even if it's heresay, mind PM'ing me said places paying that kind of cash for academics?
Whoa. That's nuts. You're talking 5 12s a week.......if you do ANY nights, you'd basically be working or sleeping 24/7.
What's a normal hourly rate for Peds EM? Is there an equivalent of middle of nowhere Nebraska for Peds EM, or does the relationship with Children's hospitals pretty much me an that all of the jobs are in desirable locations?
There are lots of children's hospitals that aren't in desirable locations.
NY, Cincinnati, Baltimore.
I kid.
There are children's hospitals in smaller communities, and places that aren't big names. They're harder to find, but they're there. The problem is that there aren't a ton of peds EM fellowship trained people out there, so many of those places are staffed by pediatricians. They look at EM boarded people with sideways glances.
When you guys say "12 hour shifts," is it really 12 hours or do you have to come in an hour early to prepare and leave an hour late to finish up and close out?
I know that. It's just that nobody else on here that I know of is Peds EM. The only Peds EM people I know make $150-170/hr at the community-esque peds ED.I'm a Pediatrician looking at a Peds EM fellowship, actually. I'm just curious what the compensation is vs. some other specialties I'm looking at.
They get paid more than pediatricians. They may in certain places make more than EM working in the same ED.Also is there really any upside (other than providing better care) to being the Peds EM certified guy in the ED? Are they getting paid more than the guys who are only borded in EM or Peds?
I'm a Pediatrician looking at a Peds EM fellowship, actually. I'm just curious what the compensation is vs. some other specialties I'm looking at.
Also is there really any upside (other than providing better care) to being the Peds EM certified guy in the ED? Are they getting paid more than the guys who are only borded in EM or Peds?
Wow.
I remember reading a thread where you were bashing EM. Times have changed.
I'm not sure which thread you're recalling (I can think of a couple), but I think you should be able to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, a perceptions of a profession without it being considered bashing. Peds certainly criticizes our own training and patient care models often enough, and the ABP just completely revamped our residency requirements just this year in response to some of those criticisms.
That kind of conversation can be hard to have on the Internet, though, and of course you can't really do it with a live audience until you're out of training, so maybe its not worth it to say anything about anything. Anyway Peds EM has always been on of my top three choices for fellowship since I did my first rotation as an MS4.
Fair enough. Maybe you were just really discussing the weaknesses the day I read it.
I did recall a comment along the lines of "carving out the easiest residency in all of medicine" which I remember thinking was funny.
Anyway, good luck.
Just of note - everyone on here is talking about $/hr, but not benefits. You may get paid well per hour, but not have any benefits. I know I am pretty much stuck working for less/hr to get benefits unless I find a spouse and I can be on their insurance policies.
Bottom line, 12's often do become 13's.
I realize there is probably some variability, but are EM docs typically paid a flat fee for shift, or are they paid for any extra time worked?
just curious.
thx
generally paid on one of two systems: flat fee per hour. or fee based on revenue units generated. a lot of places will do a combo of bonus pay based on revenue units and other metrics on top of a lower hourly fee..
I realize there is probably some variability, but are EM docs typically paid a flat fee for shift, or are they paid for any extra time worked?
just curious.
thx
finally, many large academic centers fall into the (slightly absurd) "not-for-profit" category, meaning if you're repaying med school loans under IBR, and continue to do so, the balance of your loans will potentially be forgiven in 10 years (and if you began repaying in residency, this comes out to 5-7 years of attendinghood, depending on whether you've done a fellowship.) if you've got 200-300k in student loans, and have been paying under IBR (which essentially doesn't touch the balance), spreading that debt forgiveness over 5-7 years is an extra 25-50k in effective income.
This would be great for someone with a huge amount of debt (ie. $500k+), but how many of these jobs at non-profit academic centers are actually employed directly by the academic center and not staffed indirectly through a third party for-profit physician group?
as has been mentioned, overall package is very important. particularly with big academic centers (aside from great health benefits) that may match into a 403b on top of a cash balance plan (which requires no contribution from you at all.)
finally, many large academic centers fall into the (slightly absurd) "not-for-profit" category, meaning if you're repaying med school loans under IBR, and continue to do so, the balance of your loans will potentially be forgiven in 10 years (and if you began repaying in residency, this comes out to 5-7 years of attendinghood, depending on whether you've done a fellowship.) if you've got 200-300k in student loans, and have been paying under IBR (which essentially doesn't touch the balance), spreading that debt forgiveness over 5-7 years is an extra 25-50k in effective income.
I realize there is probably some variability, but are EM docs typically paid a flat fee for shift, or are they paid for any extra time worked?
just curious.
thx
Back to the 200/hr........are these numbers as independent contractors where you are responsible for insurance, retirement, etc.....or as an employee where you get this as your salary in addition to the other benefits that usaully come in a compensation package.
Because these per hr salaries seem rather high to me and very good if you are an employee with the other compensatory measures.
A contract management group with which I am acquainted put out a memo that 30 minutes before or after a shift was considered "de minimis" - for those of you not up on your Latin, that means "trivial", and they said that they wouldn't pay people for work done in that half hour before or after the shift. However, in 1938, there was a statute known as the "Fair Labor Standards Act" enacted, which says you have to be paid for working (which, although sounding logical, had to be put into words). We'll see how this shakes out.
Yeah I'm curious about this as well.. also I wonder if IBR will be viable for the amount of time I would be in the program which won't even start for me until July. It would suck majorly to be making insignificant payments on my 250K debt which actually could have been used for entertainment or what have u in residency to find out u won't be grandfathered in and now ur debt is 450K or something absurd.