looking for an hourly wage comparison of specialties

[doctor7]

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I tried searching for it on SDN, but could only find yearly salaries...not very helpful when the denominator goes from <40hrs/week to 100+.

Any links or insight would be helpful.

 

[mpp]

Well, I heard The Gap pays 25 cents more per hour than Orange Julius but the employee discount sucks there....and the checkout girls at A&F are so bitchy I could never work there, plus I don't have my learner's permit yet and they want me to work Saturdays!

 

[Mirror Form]

I tried searching for it on SDN, but could only find yearly salaries...not very helpful when the denominator goes from <40hrs/week to 100+.

Any links or insight would be helpful.

Most doctors aren't paid an hourly wage, so it would be difficult to calculate one since I imagine most don't bother keeping a careful count of the number of hours they work. Everybody knows how much they make per year though, which is why that's the available number.

That said, there are lists of how many hours per week certain specialites work on average. So you could just take a list of average salaries, and divide it by the average number of hours worked to get a ball park figure.

 

[Fermata]

It all depends on how you tailor your practice.

 

[margaritaboy]

Well, I heard The Gap pays 25 cents more per hour than Orange Julius but the employee discount sucks there....and the checkout girls at A&F are so bitchy I could never work there, plus I don't have my learner's permit yet and they want me to work Saturdays!

Pfff! Everyone knows that The Gap is sooo yesterday!

 

[BigBadBix]

This is one per-hour breakdown. I have no idea how accurate it is. (If for some reason the link doesn't work, you can find it on www.phius.com.)

 

[hans19]

Well, I heard The Gap pays 25 cents more per hour than Orange Julius but the employee discount sucks there....and the checkout girls at A&F are so bitchy I could never work there, plus I don't have my learner's permit yet and they want me to work Saturdays!

Bwahahahah!!!! Life is sooooooooo unfair!!!!!

 

[pharmer]

This is one per-hour breakdown. I have no idea how accurate it is. (If for some reason the link doesn't work, you can find it on www.phius.com.)

The chart from that link has a * indicating these are specialties one can enter directly out of med school (like gas, rads, EM, WTF!!) That being said, I think one can probably assume that the chart is very inaccurate.

 

[Pilot Doc]

The chart from that link has a * indicating these are specialties one can enter directly out of med school (like gas, rads, EM, WTF!!) That being said, I think one can probably assume that the chart is very inaccurate.

I suspect they mean that the starred specialties require no fellowship, not that they require no residency.

 

[Homunculus]

as an intern i make around $15/hr. but i'm military and have a hefty housing allowance 😛

--your friendly neighborhood moneybags caveman

 

[Larry Renal]

Although it would be interesting to see the statistics on this, it would seem pretty tough to quantitatively measure. It depends on what you consider "work." If you're a surgeon, is waiting for the OR to be cleaned while you're in the physician's lounge work, or is work the time from incision to closure of the skin? Is time on the phone from home dealing with patient issues considered work? Is non-patient related office stuff work?

ps; working in retail is very unawesome.

 

[J123]

Well, I heard The Gap pays 25 cents more per hour than Orange Julius but the employee discount sucks there....and the checkout girls at A&F are so bitchy I could never work there, plus I don't have my learner's permit yet and they want me to work Saturdays!

mpp you are so RIGHT!!!

"But I didn't go into medicine for the money..."

 

[Cristagali]

One program's website broke the salary down by year and hourly!! I don't know why. I think the annual salary was 41 or 42k and hourly $21.00!! Thats right folks we'll make between 15-20 bucks an hour for the next three years!! yahoo!! Gosh, I can pay my student loan off by 2043. Sweeet! 😀

 

[BellKicker]

20 bucks is bad but I actually thought it was less than that. At $20 an hour, you'd make 1200 on an 60-hour work week. Multiply that by 50 weeks, and you've got a $60K annual income.

Debt free by 2043 is but a dream, Cristagali 😀

If this was a very cush program with a very high salary, $20 an hour might be correct. Do you have a link?

 

[Winged Scapula]

One program's website broke the salary down by year and hourly!! I don't know why. I think the annual salary was 41 or 42k and hourly $21.00!! Thats right folks we'll make between 15-20 bucks an hour for the next three years!! yahoo!! Gosh, I can pay my student loan off by 2043. Sweeet! 😀

Sad to say Cristagali but that's based on a 40 hour workweek. Even the most cush residency can't offer that on a regular basis.

I remember being confused at my orientation when it was calculated that we earned a little over $17 a hour. Of course, they "forgot" that we didn't work 40 hours per week, and in fact, since this was the "old days" 120 was more like it! So divide 17 by 3 and you get...well a little less than min wage.

 

[UseUrHeadFred]

There are a lot of good reasons for a self-employed physician not to reveal their true salary. Most of them involve taxes.

Thus, real numbers are hard to find.

 

[Finally M3]

Hey, don't forget that your salary will go up $1,000 to $2,000 per year depending on your program. Annnnd, you can spend some of your precious off-hours moonlighting as you progress! 😀

Oh wait, and your salary generally will multiply by a factor of 3-??? once you finish.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Hey, don't forget that your salary will go up $1,000 to $2,000 per year depending on your program. Annnnd, you can spend some of your precious off-hours moonlighting as you progress! 😀

Oh wait, and your salary generally will multiply by a factor of 3-??? once you finish.

Remember some programs do not allow moonlighting, even on "off hours" (ie, vacation or weekends off).

 

[docB]

Everyone should remember that benefits are very important when it comes to figuring your compensation. Some of the docs in my residency class went to work for Kaiser (an HMO that is mainly in CA) and while their hourly is about 60% of mine their benefits package is great. They get health, disability, retirement with matching, dental, opto, etc. I get nada and have to buy it all on my own so even though they get "paid" less it's actually just about equal. Another thing to be aware of is that if you have any health problems when you try to buy health insurance you may have any existing conditions excluded (in NV they can be excluded permanently). I couldn't get disability even for the exorbitant rates they charge so if I get hurt my family and I are screwed. Just remember that benefits are an important part of your compensation and that the plans you can get into in a group are often better than you could ever get on your own.

 

[Finally M3]

Remember some programs do not allow moonlighting, even on "off hours" (ie, vacation or weekends off).

Like surgery? 😉

Actually, I don't think my program next year looked to fondly on moonlighting, either, although it was technically available as an opportunity

 

[tennik]

The chart above ranks Gyn in the top five for hours/year. Is this crazy to everyone?

 

[doc05]

not really. without the ob, gyn is regular (9-5) hours with relatively easy surgery.

 

[tennik]

Why do these lists have peds ophtho as a separate category but don't list other peds specialties like peds derm etc?

 

[doc05]

probably a matter of statistics.

 

[tennik]

What do you mean?