As reported by the BBC in a survey of the Royal College of Pathologists:
Pathologist shortage 'delaying cancer diagnosis'
Job seekers in the US take heed. If nothing is on the horizon here...the UK has a very high standard of living with nearly comparable income
fascinating story.
But Im not sure on your second part, if by "comparable income" you mean an average salary of a board certified pathologist in the UK of 90,000 pound sterling with a TOP END salary of 103,000 pounds annually which is equivalent to $118,000-$130,000 per year vs. a known average income of practicing US pathologists of $286,000 and a UK cost of living which provides 12% LESS purchasing power on average than the United States....let's do the math on this for a moment:
The British National Health Service would need to increase pathologist pay by +174% to be comparable.
For a $118,000 I would not even show up at an actual job site, like ever. I would assume telecommuting from a beach in Spain is not an option? Im not even sure I would do that though, especially if they dump trucked 50-100 cases a day on me bc they are massively understaffed.
To put it in even more perspective: For your craptastic 90,000 pound sterling, 30,000-40,000 will be eaten by rent, another 10,000 for transportation and 20,0000 per year for food and drink and other household stuff meaning HOPEFULLY you have a significant other who will become a sex worker so you can pay your obscene tax bill
because your take home is precisely 60,215 pounds.
~Let's pretend that the UK all school is totally free (which it's not, by a long shot) and the US pathologist is servicing 1200/mo in student debt. The monthly take home pay in the US is still over twice with a purchasing power advantage in US dollars that is quite material.
~There is no economic model where a UK Pathologist is anyway equivalent to one here. In terms of purchasing power, a
UK Pathologist is a literal equivalent to a foreman of foreign agricultural workers aka a "Bracero". Another equivalent to a UK Pathologist would be the head manager of an In-n-Out burger franchise who make roughly 90,000 US in my area but have more purchasing power and better tax sheltering options than what you have in the UK.
~A UK Pathologist is far lower compensated than senior nursing staff in the US, by roughly -30%.
~A UK Pathologist at the absolute pinnacle of their career is compensated less than the average owner of a US plumbing business by a massive amount.
~A UK junior staff Pathologist is less compensated than the average 19-year old female stripper in Las Vegas.
~A UK senior Pathologist makes less than a California police detective once overtime pay is considered.
In case somehow you think that the UK makes up for this incredible deficit on the back end somehow, they don't.
The UK pension system is utter trash. They actually BRAG about giving doctors a pathetic 53,000 pounds per year pension BUT only because they raised the the retirement age by 5 years and dumped the 150,000 pound career end bonus they used to give around 5 years ago.
There are a million different jobs I would do before sinking to become a UK Pathologist:
I would for example,
~set up a surfboard rental company in Baja California
~do basic research, anywhere, and just smoke weed all day
~sell military arms internationally to 3rd world countries
~work at Walmart for the free stuff
etc.
But to put a personal spin on this, the British government would need to pay me what the cumulative annual salary of their most senior pathologist earns EACH MONTH to be anywhere near comparable.
I will also say I am likely of the very few American pathologists on SDN who went through the full process of applying to work at a NHS hospital so Im not simply talking out of my rectum on this matter.
