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i'm currently a 4th year undergrad applying to optometry school next year, and i'm interested in seeing for my self how hard/easy it is to get a job and how much it pays. from all the forum comments and inconsistent numbers on bls, payscale, and salary.com I really don't have any idea how much a commercial optometrist 'job' would pay.
1) do they teach you in optometry school about the various ways a guy holding an OD can be compensated (different places to practice)? I'd like to see some data with a full range of possible employment opportunities with "time spent/money earned" ratios for each one. ideally there should be a positive and roughly linear correlation between those two across various jobs ranging from "part-time contractor" to "large practice owner". Are there government jobs for optometrists? how about at hospitals?
2) how much does a typical lease-holding doctor at walmart or costco make and how many hours per week is he working?
3) most of the job listing on optometry.com have unspecified salary amounts. i was thinking of manufacturing a "typical" fake resume with a fake name and carrying on phone interviews/etc all the way up to the point where i'd go see the actual person in order to detect the ACTUAL amount of money they were planning paying and what sort of arrangements they would expect. how do most graduating ODs find their jobs anyway? optometry.com? spamming resumes via classified ads? some other website or newsletter?
4) what are some group practice arrangements (what kind of terms do the contracts generally contain for full-time work?) for example, are most grop practice-employed ODs paid by production, or by flat rate? or maybe flat ate + bonuses? is the only reason one might want to practice in a group the prospect of buying in at some point in time or are there other reasons to why someone would take 70k as opposed 100k? fewer hours maybe?
1) do they teach you in optometry school about the various ways a guy holding an OD can be compensated (different places to practice)? I'd like to see some data with a full range of possible employment opportunities with "time spent/money earned" ratios for each one. ideally there should be a positive and roughly linear correlation between those two across various jobs ranging from "part-time contractor" to "large practice owner". Are there government jobs for optometrists? how about at hospitals?
2) how much does a typical lease-holding doctor at walmart or costco make and how many hours per week is he working?
3) most of the job listing on optometry.com have unspecified salary amounts. i was thinking of manufacturing a "typical" fake resume with a fake name and carrying on phone interviews/etc all the way up to the point where i'd go see the actual person in order to detect the ACTUAL amount of money they were planning paying and what sort of arrangements they would expect. how do most graduating ODs find their jobs anyway? optometry.com? spamming resumes via classified ads? some other website or newsletter?
4) what are some group practice arrangements (what kind of terms do the contracts generally contain for full-time work?) for example, are most grop practice-employed ODs paid by production, or by flat rate? or maybe flat ate + bonuses? is the only reason one might want to practice in a group the prospect of buying in at some point in time or are there other reasons to why someone would take 70k as opposed 100k? fewer hours maybe?
