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How much earn physicians in United States?
Prior to indicate the scale of wages means remember that all persons who have completed their studies in another country must go through a process to work United States medical long, laborious and complex to validate their titles and get the Professional license in order to work.
In addition, if they are foreigners they must obtain a work visa or a green card to comply with immigration laws.
INCOME MEANS OF PHYSICIANS IN THE UNITED STATES
According to data of the Association of management of group physician (MGMA, for its acronym in English), wages vary according to specialty and, within this, depending on the State in which you work, hours of work and even if is exercised in a hospital or an outpatient.
List of largest entry medium to minor:
- Cardiac Electrophysiologist: $571,508
- Cardiologist surgeon: $553,890
- Orthopaedic surgeon: $539,354
- Gastroenterologist: $496,874
- Gynecologist specializing in high-risk pregnancies: $473,316
- Dermatologist: $451,953
- Oncologist (hematologist included): $444,510
- Non-invasive cardiologist: $444,220
- Otolaryngologist: $411,689
- Anesthesiologists: $406,154
- GYN: $312,257
- Ophthalmologist: $349,766
- Neurologist: $276,421
- Hospital internist: $225,630
- Family doctor: $211,083
- Pediatrician: $210,678
- Psychiatrist specializing in children and adolescents: $206,108
- Ambulatory internist: $202,067
- Adult psychiatrist: $199,996
- Medical specialist in palliative care: $198,091
- Physician geriatrician: $188,885
- Dentist (excludes those who work on their own in private practices): $142,890
DEMAND FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS
It is estimated that between now and 2018 will take cover 70,000 seats within the medical profession. It estimates that today approximately one of every ten job vacancies are not covered due to lack of doctors.
Doctors earn more than most Americans. However, the detail is in student debts, which can easily climb to six figures, so there is a big difference if you are earning 200,000 or 500,000 dollars.
There is a great disparity in the salaries of general practitioners and specialists depending on the site where practice and their gender.
WOMEN EARN LESS THAN MEN
There is still a medicine gender wage gap, while one-third of all physicians are women, and they account for half of medical students graduating this year, according to Doximity.
The survey revealed that major gaps occur in ophthalmology. Men earn 36%, or about $95,000 a year, than their female colleagues. History repeats itself between cardiologists, where men earn 29% more (around $ 97,000 per year (than women.
The reported wage gap was least among Anesthesiologists (12%), radiologists (13%) and family physicians (14%).
IN CITIES LARGE NOT ALWAYS WINS BEST
New York and Boston are meccas of renowned schools of medicine and university hospitals. This may help to explain why wages there are lower than the of many other areas of the United States. For example, in New York, the internists won 234,000 dollars a year, or about 14,000 less than the national average. One theory is that many physicians in these cities come into academic medicine, which typically pay less.
Meanwhile, the most desirable cities where doctors like to work, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., are also among those that pay less. In fact, the average salary of doctors in primary care in D.C. ranked last, with 17% below the national average.
Jobs with better salary in United States
A survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, for its acronym in English) of the Department of labor of United States UU.que reflects the wages and jobs of more than one million companies during the month of may 2014, found that 16 of the 30 best paid work of the country belonged to the field of medicine.
The work paid better, with an average annual salary of $246,320, was that of Anesthesiologists.
Anesthesiologists, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA, for its acronym in English) are those physicians responsible for the safety and well-being of patients before, during and after surgery. This lucrative field requires many studies.
In the United States is required to complete four-year college degree, four years in the Faculty of medicine, and a four year residency in Anesthesiology. Many also complete an additional year of college scholarship (fellowship) where they concentrate in a specialized field, as in cardiology or Pediatrics.
An earlier report of medical salaries compiled by Medscape, subsidiary WebMD health information site, had been to three specialties above Anesthesiology: orthopedics, cardiology and gastroenterology, with salary averages $421,000, $376,000 and $370,000, respectively.