Salaries

[deleted314957]

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Every add I've ever seen for the academic jobs says "salary commensurate with experience". Her experience was essentially zip. I doubt if her compensation would be impressive. In the same vein, if I applied with 30+ years experience (23 as as a hospital medical director) I don't think they would even consider $350000/yr which would be a big cut from my retirement level. Academia is a loser.

And really, her hours SUCK.

 

[scienceguy19]

I don't understand why pathologists should be paid only a little more than pharmacists or optometrists.

Well actually we're paid less if you go by an hourly rate...

 

[KluverB]

I don't understand why pathologists should be paid only a little more than pharmacists or optometrists.

Well actually we're paid less if you go by an hourly rate...

And I don't understand why nurses and teachers should get paid a tenth of what pathologists get paid, while sports figures and movie stars get paid potentially orders of magnitude more.

 

[Thrombus]

And I don't understand why nurses and teachers should get paid a tenth of what pathologists get paid, while sports figures and movie stars get paid potentially orders of magnitude more.

Many nurses get paid more than many pathologists.👎thumbdown👎

 

[pathstudent]

And I don't understand why nurses and teachers should get paid a tenth of what pathologists get paid, while sports figures and movie stars get paid potentially orders of magnitude more.

Average Chicago public school teacher gets around 85k and 4 months off a year. I wish that was a tenth of what I made.

You don't understand why professional NBA, NFL, MLB, Golfers etc.. get paid 7-8 figures a year and you don't? Well, if you could get 10,000 people to pay $100 to watch you read slides in every city in the country and have millions tune in on TV, you could get paid 20,000,000 a year also.

 

[scienceguy19]

Chicago public school teacher 85 K works 8 months a year, no loans 40 hours a week, bachelor's degree


Pathologist 150 K works 11 months a year, loans, lost income from being in medical school and residency (4 years residency, 2 years fellowship) 60 hours a week

Average Chicago public school teacher gets around 85k and 4 months off a year. I wish that was a tenth of what I made.

You don't understand why professional NBA, NFL, MLB, Golfers etc.. get paid 7-8 figures a year and you don't? Well, if you could get 10,000 people to pay $100 to watch you read slides in every city in the country and have millions tune in on TV, you could get paid 20,000,000 a year also.

 

[Path or bust]

And I don't understand why nurses and teachers should get paid a tenth of what pathologists get paid, while sports figures and movie stars get paid potentially orders of magnitude more.

supply and demand

 

[wholeheartedly]

Teachers in Chicago really make 85k? Or are those high end estimates for administrators or masters degrees teachers with 25 years experience?

If so, I wish my mom, the teacher, lived in Chicago when I was growing up. Starting teacher's salary in my hometown is about 20k. They pay out of their own pockets for classroom supplies because the money they get from the district doesn't cover what they need, it's not no student loans but obviously fewer than a doc, she works 9 months of the year as a teacher (putting in way more than 40 hours a week, because most of her 40 hours is teaching and doesn't include prep time, meeting time, and doing individual lesson plans as a special ed. teacher, along with grading assignments and other paperwork) and like most of her fellow teachers had summer side jobs to boost her income on the "off" months. 85k might be the norm in bigger cities but not for the vast majority of the rest of the teacher workforce.


The general public sees just a small amount of what really goes on for teachers and docs and both groups are pretty under appreciated.

 

[rollwithit]

Teachers in Chicago really make 85k? Or are those high end estimates for administrators or masters degrees teachers with 25 years experience?

If so, I wish my mom, the teacher, lived in Chicago when I was growing up. Starting teacher's salary in my hometown is about 20k. They pay out of their own pockets for classroom supplies because the money they get from the district doesn't cover what they need, it's not no student loans but obviously fewer than a doc, she works 9 months of the year as a teacher (putting in way more than 40 hours a week, because most of her 40 hours is teaching and doesn't include prep time, meeting time, and doing individual lesson plans as a special ed. teacher, along with grading assignments and other paperwork) and like most of her fellow teachers had summer side jobs to boost her income on the "off" months. 85k might be the norm in bigger cities but not for the vast majority of the rest of the teacher workforce.


The general public sees just a small amount of what really goes on for teachers and docs and both groups are pretty under appreciated.

Just remember that anything that makes it to the major news outlets gets sensationalized due to focusing on the outliers - much like anecdotal information you get here on the pathology job market. I suppose it gets more attention that way.

Not all teachers make 85k - not all make 20k. Not all pathologists are struggling for work or make 70k as an instructor and a crap institution. Nor do they all have multiple job offers at 250k+ and are partner within 3 years at a stable practice. Truth is always somewhere in the middle and don't let the *****s with bullhorns distract you from reality.