Optho Salary Info

[medstud721]

http://www.ophmanagement.com/archive_results.asp?article=85973

 

[piotr13]

Ouch.... current prospects for most ophthos don't look good....

 

[ckyuen]

piotr you must be quite greedy, with the average income and the nice hours it's more than enough for me.
As you might expect, salaried M.D.s, on average, earned less than their non-salaried counterparts: $242,000 compared with $367,000 (about 33% less). The salaried number can be broken down further. Also what other fields have people who earned up to 4,000,000.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by ckyuen
piotr you must be quite greedy, with the average income and the nice hours it's more than enough for me.
As you might expect, salaried M.D.s, on average, earned less than their non-salaried counterparts: $242,000 compared with $367,000 (about 33% less). The salaried number can be broken down further. Also what other fields have people who earned up to 4,000,000.

I agree with ckyuen.

I will be happy with $150K/year.

This is from the IRS site:

"In 2001, taxpayers reporting adjusted gross income of $127,904 ranked among the nation's top 5 percent of earners, and $292,913 was necessary to break into the top 1 percent. A year earlier in 2000, the income threshold for the top 5 percent had been $128,336, and the threshold for the top 1 percent had been more than $20,000 higher, $313,469."

For those whining about not making enough, most of America really can't feel your pain. 🙂

Happy New Year!

 

[Stark]

The article does give some useful information, but I can't believe they didn't include MEDIAN income! The average income has to be skewed way to the right because of the four or five guys out there who make a couple of million dollars annually doing LASIK. It would really be more useful to look at the Median because the number would be less skewed.

Stark😴