New APMA DPM salary survey & comparision with other professions.

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..said the woman seeing a podiatrist??

I think she meant pediatrics..honest mistake.

goodone!

 

[HenryH]

SOMEBODY LOG-IN TO THE FLIPPIN' WEBSITE AND DOWNLOAD THE FILE!!! 😛

 

[PMSIII]

So these statistics seem very promising for the future of podiatry but it seems to contradict the experience i just had today at a podiatrists office I went to shadow. His patient there told me 2 of her nephews left podiatry because they could not make a living from it. She told me to be careful and to seriously think about this profession.

Another question I had was that if according to the statistics pod's seem to be making more than a regular physician then why don't more people go into podiatry?

I love how failure stories become a standard of reference. No disrespect but people fail in EVERY profession. I'd rather learn from the many success stories over the failing few (that's just my 2 cents though)

In regards to your second question, its a tad complicated. Money isn't the driving force for jobs. Its never about who makes more money - if medicine was about that, then why not go into business school or buy land/real-estate. Another point is that podiatry is still a very very small specialty. Less than 20,000 active podiatrists are in the nation and the fraction of true surgical ones is even smaller, so alot of people don't know about this specialty - As a fourth year student who rotated through different hospitals with other medical specialties, I can honestly say its medicine's best kept secret. But, again thats my opinion and it may not go for everyone.

What I'm saying is that people fail and people succeed in every profession and alot of this is based on the individual.

 

[Willcott]

I googled "forbes top 25 podiatrist" and came across the article. They stated their methodology for compiling the data: " Our numbers are drawn from the U.S. government's National, State and Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates. The latest ones available use 2006 data and are based on a national survey of employers of every size and in all industry sectors. They examine 800 occupations.

The survey covers full- and part-time workers who are paid a wage or salary. It does not include the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers and unpaid family workers."

If the survey does not include the self-employed, then the highest earners are most likely excluded, skewing the average downward.
Also, the top profession in the article was "Anesthesiologist." The salary given was $184,000, followed by "Surgeon," with a salary slightly less than that of an anesthesiologist. If you've talked to people in or entering these professions, they will tell you that these numbers are way low. I've heard of a number of anesthesiologists making dollars in the 300K to 400K range, annually, but I don't have any real data to back this up.

I think these factors at least partially explain the disparity among the surveys, so I lend a little more credence to the data presented by the other sources (other than Forbes) mentioned in this thread.

Personally, I am fair to partly broke...so when I one day make $118,000/yr, you're going to see me waving a stack of $1 dollar bills (wrapped in two B. Franklins) in a cheesy, home-made rap video.

It's all about the Washingtons....

 

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Personally, I am fair to partly broke...so when I one day make $118,000/yr, you're going to see me waving a stack of $1 dollar bills (wrapped in two B. Franklins) in a cheesy, home-made rap video.

It's all about the Washingtons....

I've been known to be an excellent back-up dancer.

 

[HenryH]

That explains the disparity, then -- Forbes essentially polled associate podiatrists working for other podiatrists.

 

[biggfoot17]

Can someone either post their username and password so we can view that file or just someone download it. I really would like to see it.