Hello, was wondering if anyone could comment on their experience working at Kaiser. Did you like it?
Anybody with experience working at Kaiser?
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Which one? Cali or Maryland?
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It’s a stable employed gig with some extra perks like a pseudo-pension. Some
positions are comfy and some are crap. The job is highly dependent on the region and the institution. The pay probably caps around 350k for sign out and leave without academic bs. Better than a churn n’ burn pp, but working for an insurance company…🤮
positions are comfy and some are crap. The job is highly dependent on the region and the institution. The pay probably caps around 350k for sign out and leave without academic bs. Better than a churn n’ burn pp, but working for an insurance company…🤮
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Cost of housing is insane in SoCal.
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-home-prices-rise-record/
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-home-prices-rise-record/
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Ridiculous. Don't have to deal with prices like that when you go rural. Live like a king, retire whenever you feel like it.
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Saw a pathology job in Glendale, CA a few months ago for like 230K salary, where the average house is like 1.2 M (I googled it). SMH. Is it me or do senior pathologists/groups/corporations/academia seem to exploit their young/inexperienced the most out of all fields in medicine?
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Well, yeah 230K isn't going to go very far if you buy a 1.2 M home. Again, it's a sellers' market. They can advertise that income and still get plenty of responses because SoCal is a highly desirable place to live for many people. Maybe not for Webb, but not everyone wants to be a truffle pig farmer living in BFE.
Whether or not this job is pp, other jobs in a similar income range will have a number of variables we don't know about which may not be indicative of exploitation. For example, a pp job with 230K as the starting salary could mean partners are making double, but they won't divulge that info. If it were academia, that might be on par with what academic institutions are paying in the state at the assistant prof. level and you get 12 weeks time off/research/protected time. If this were a cush employed position that's low volume with no call issues then the RVUs might not justify a higher income.
The salary is on the low end for sure, but that doesn't necessarily mean exploitation depending on the other unknown variables that entail the position. Having said that, if you tell me the job involves signing out 10,000 88305s + 3,000 88307s/9s per year, autopsies, 10+ frozens/ROSE per wk a lot starting at 7-8am, traveling to different sites, then yeah...that's definitely exploitation.
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