Health Occupations - Salary (1 Viewer)

[Paradox1345]

I thought it would be good to have a thread where all the major health related occupations were compared with each other in terms of their salaries.

Please post what you think the average salary for the following are (assuming that they all have had five years experience):

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General Practitioner

General Dentist

Pharmacist

Optometrist

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Any other occupation I should I add?
And which you would prefer if you're interested in the health/medical field.

As always any comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[doink]

You don't graduate Medicine into a GP... lol did you seriously not know that?

 

[katie tully]

hey guys i just finished 5 years of medicine so now i'm a gp, pay me 200k now plz thx

 

[Paradox1345]

lol I'm still in year 11, so I dunno much.

 

[lionking1191]

5 years after u finish your MBBS you'd be a registrar and hopefully enrolled in a training college with a salary package some where around 90k. spend 3-6 yrs in there you could come out as a specialist and earn anywhere from 200k to 1mil+ if ur lucky and/or really good.

 

[katie tully]

pharmacists get paid shit, unless they go private and even then they get paid shit

nsw health pharmacists get like, 70k after theyve had 8+ years experience

 

[Arowana21]

have a look at these
PayScale Australia - Physician / Doctor, Internal Medicine Salary, Average Salaries
PayScale Australia - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MB ChB) Degree Salary, Average Salaries

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

have a look at these
PayScale Australia - Physician / Doctor, Internal Medicine Salary, Average Salaries
PayScale Australia - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MB ChB) Degree Salary, Average Salaries

numbers are under by 100+k in some places

 

[lifequest]

Can't say much about Pharmacists or Optom, but from personal experience shared by my extended family of Doctors and Dentists. It seems the Dentist are fairing better

Doctors:

Uncle - 10 years. Salary: $180k/yr - Note he has just gone back to Uni to get a Dentistry degree and now makes $250k/yr.

Cousin A - 2 years. Salary: $90k/yr
Cousin B - 1 year. Salary: $70k/yr

Dentist:
Uncle (as above). $250k/yr
Cousin C - 1 year. Salary: $150k/yr
Aunty - 12 years. Salary: $350k/yr

You do the comparison...

While I'm lucky to be a dentist. I'd still rather be a Doctor because they're more respected! =(

 

[lionking1191]

Can't say much about Pharmacists or Optom, but from personal experience shared by my extended family of Doctors and Dentists. It seems the Dentist are fairing better

Doctors:

Uncle - 10 years. Salary: $180k/yr - Note he has just gone back to Uni to get a Dentistry degree and now makes $250k/yr.

Cousin A - 2 years. Salary: $90k/yr
Cousin B - 1 year. Salary: $70k/yr

Dentist:
Uncle (as above). $250k/yr
Cousin C - 1 year. Salary: $150k/yr
Aunty - 12 years. Salary: $350k/yr

You do the comparison...

While I'm lucky to be a dentist. I'd still rather be a Doctor because they're more respected! =(

why did ur uncle go back to get a dental sc. degree?

i hope it wasn't for the money..

 

[RogueAcademic]

Do you need dual qualifications in Med and Dentistry to be a MaxilloFacial Surgeon or just Dentistry with some sort of Post Grad Diploma?

Med and Dentistry. Although that may have changed in recent years:

Postgraduate Diploma in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery : Melbourne Dental School

A quick search in wikipedia says you need med and dental degrees in some areas/circumstances.

 

[RogueAcademic]

This website also says that either a dentistry or med degree are required to do the diploma - myfuture :: Courses and Programs—Course Information - Postgraduate Diploma of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

That link you posted is referring to the Melb Uni link I posted above.

I'd imagine doing both medicine and dentistry degrees at UNI would be very time consuming, expensive and painful...

That's how it used to be if you wanted to be a fully qualified maxillofacial specialist surgeon. I think you get some exemptions if you have either degree.

 

[RogueAcademic]

I know, though the link you posted didn't have any prerequisites for the course.

"Admission Requirements" on the left hand side of the screen...? It's there.

 

[katie tully]

Well, looking at a statement the other day at work... I can tell you that our radiologist gets $350k a year, just from our 3 local hospitals. I'm not sure whether he reports on any others, but we did $410,000 worth of xrays/us and we only made a $63k profit, he got the rest.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

Well, looking at a statement the other day at work... I can tell you that our radiologist gets $350k a year, just from our 3 local hospitals. I'm not sure whether he reports on any others, but we did $410,000 worth of xrays/us and we only made a $63k profit, he got the rest.

but how many days is he working at ur place?

some guys work at 2 to 3 places :S

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

why did ur uncle go back to get a dental sc. degree?

i hope it wasn't for the money..

well i can guess than Dent is shorter and better hours than the fellowship training ... and AMC exams
for an overseas qualifed grad.

 

[katie tully]

He works no days at our place, he sits in his office and we sent the images online. If we're lucky, he'll do a Dictaphone report straight away, and a written report within 2. Same with the other two hospitals, as he's based in Newcastle.

Not sure if he does any in his area, I just saw that from our three hospitals alone, he received $300k

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

He works no days at our place, he sits in his office and we sent the images online. If we're lucky, he'll do a Dictaphone report straight away, and a written report within 2. Same with the other two hospitals, as he's based in Newcastle.

Not sure if he does any in his area, I just saw that from our three hospitals alone, he received $300k

yeah radio is good cos you can do lik 400km radius.. and online

 

[katie tully]

He never tells us when he is on holidays, and there was a massive error in a report once. So I rang him, and he's like "plz call back in 5"

So 10 minutes later I called him, and he roars "DON'T EVER BOTHER ME WITH SUCH THINGS AGAIN!"

I was like dude, your official report had twin a as being 119cm long

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

He never tells us when he is on holidays, and there was a massive error in a report once. So I rang him, and he's like "plz call back in 5"

So 10 minutes later I called him, and he roars "DON'T EVER BOTHER ME WITH SUCH THINGS AGAIN!"

I was like dude, your official report had twin a as being 119cm long

HAHAHAHAHA whatacunt