is this true about optometry?

[jupiterOD]

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All new grads can potentially get a fulltime job with benefits at a corporate location and gross at least 100k, anyone work corporate full time and not gross 100k?

 

[blysssful]

Though I couldn't tell you first hand, I doubt the validity of this. Location is very important.

 

[gochi]

All new grads can potentially get a fulltime job with benefits at a corporate location and gross at least 100k, anyone work corporate full time and not gross 100k?

You should post this in the Optometry Forums.

But, I'll try to answer this from what I have read over the past months.

Yes.

 

[KHE]

All new grads can potentially get a fulltime job with benefits at a corporate location and gross at least 100k, anyone work corporate full time and not gross 100k?

Unless you are the actual lease holding doctor at a corporate location, it is highly UNlikely that you gross over $100k.

 

[EyeWitness]

Unless you are the actual lease holding doctor at a corporate location, it is highly UNlikely that you gross over $100k.

I read on odwire that if your the lease holder of a walmart 6 days a week it's 160k, any truth to this tid bit. If you start working corporate, how do you get to be the lease holder?

 

[KHE]

I read on odwire that if your the lease holder of a walmart 6 days a week it's 160k, any truth to this tid bit. If you start working corporate, how do you get to be the lease holder?

The vast majority of corporate leases do not generate near enough patient volume to generate 6 days a week, nor 160k. Most corporate leases net a lease holding doctor in the low hundreds. Of course, the corporation does their best to try to convince you to work as many days as possible, regardless of the demand for services because to them, it makes no difference if you sit there all day 6 or 7 days a week, as long as you're there to see that one walk in at 6:45 on Saturday night, they're happy.

 

[EyeWitness]

The vast majority of corporate leases do not generate near enough patient volume to generate 6 days a week, nor 160k. Most corporate leases net a lease holding doctor in the low hundreds. Of course, the corporation does their best to try to convince you to work as many days as possible, regardless of the demand for services because to them, it makes no difference if you sit there all day 6 or 7 days a week, as long as you're there to see that one walk in at 6:45 on Saturday night, they're happy.

But your not being paid to sit around because you're paid by patient volume and not hourly at a corporation?

 

[KHE]

But your not being paid to sit around because you're paid by patient volume and not hourly at a corporation?

That's right, you're paid by patient volume. So it's no skin off of their nose if you sit there providing coverage for 40 hours a week when the location only necessitates 20 hours worth of coverage. The corporation makes it a stipulation of the lease that you provide a certain amount of hours of coverage whether there is a demand for it or not. As such, a whole slew of corporate locations have ODs sitting around seeing only a smattering of patients and not coming anywhere close to 160k.