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Article #3016Re: Salaries of Scientists
From: Russell.Martin
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:12
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 22:12
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rrcolby@go.com wrote: > sf wrote: > > > http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencesalaries.html > > > > > So, your mother was right. It pays to be an Orthopedic Surgeon! > > 'Tis true, however, if you want a guaranteed half a million per year > income, you can't beat neurosurgery... > > http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm > > It's the only specialty where making 1/2 million really involves just > being competent and doing your job (albeit with many hrs per day > logged) but all surgeons work fairly hard. In other specialties, you > could work hard but you might top out at $400K. The caveat here is that > you're a workaholic and that you have the "hands" to be a surgeon. I'm > not one who's convinced that surgeons are any smarter than a nuclear > engineer or physicist. I worked for a neurosurgeon. Believe me, if he was earning half a million per year (which I don't think he was, even at Hopkins), he earned every cent of it. And yes, he was smarter than I, having both an MD and PhD. On the surgery days when I was helping in the OR I'd put in sometimes 14 hours, and he was there before me and hours after I left. I doubt if many of us could do, or would want to do, that job. I respect those who can and do. Cheers, Russell
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