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[captain bhangra]

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hii i found this website and am wondering if it is accurate
http://www.cejkasearch.com/compensation/amga_physician_compensation_survey.htm
are these for hospitals or for private practice??
thanks

 

[Law2Doc]

hii i found this website and am wondering if it is accurate
http://www.cejkasearch.com/compensation/amga_physician_compensation_survey.htm
are these for hospitals or for private practice??
thanks

It's not. If you read the footnote you will see that it only surveys doctors in very large practices (the average member group has "272 physicians and 13 satellite locations", practicing in 40 states). So their average and range is in no way representative of the national average, or any state average. Try the JAMA list -- it's a few years old (salaries have actually reportedly receded in most fields since then), but is still more accurate. http://www.medfriends.org/specialty_hours_worked.htm

 

[jae9970]

are those before the tax and malpractice insurances?

 

[Law2Doc]

are those before the tax and malpractice insurances?

If you are talking about the JAMA one I'm pretty sure that is after malpractice insurance, but you still have to pay taxes on that.
(There's actually no way they could give accurate after taxes numbers because not everyone is in the same brackets or taxed at the same rate).

 

[Wizard of Oz]

are those before the tax and malpractice insurances?

Looks like probably so, but many agreements will have the insurance included.

Don't get 'em salivating, L2D, 2003 and 2013 will likely look quite different from each other.

 

[Law2Doc]

Don't get 'em salivating, L2D, 2003 and 2013 will likely look quite different from each other.

Agreed, but I wanted to give them closer numbers than the prior survey, which in some fields is as high as twice what the JAMA survey indicates. Honestly, physician income has dropped about 7% over the last decade and probably will drop another 7+% in the next. At the same time, I'm betting inflation and taxes go up in this interval. That's life. As I've said before, you will be comfortable, but not living like a rock star.

 

[dutchman]

Yes, physicians are swimming against the tides of economic prosperity. While everyone else is gaining, physicians are loosing.