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To: FredZarguna

If that chart were actually reliable, most doctors would be bringing home around 85K a year.

(52 X 1623) = $84,326

Something doesn’t smell right here.


6 posted on 03/28/2014 4:14:35 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

The “Doctoral Degree” category doesn’t just cover medical doctors. It includes a lot of people with a PhD in some arcane subject matter who work in research positions, or even outside their field of expertise entirely.


7 posted on 03/28/2014 4:29:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: SoConPubbie
Your analysis is wrong on two counts.

First despite the name, doctors do not have doctoral degrees. Doctoral degrees are PhD's.

Doctors have professional degrees [an MD, OD, JD, are "professional doctorates," but many lesser degrees not considered equivalent to a PhD are also professional degrees.]

Second, the average professional degree -- which is what an MD or a lawyer has -- comes out to around $92K according to the BLS most current stats, and this chart actually is pretty close to that at 89+K. It's only off by a few percent , which could be because the year I recall that stat from is different from this year, or because they aren't including some professions in their average. The average nonspecialist physician makes about $185K according to surveys. There are a lot of very poorly paid "professionals" who aren't MD's who bring that number down.

8 posted on 03/28/2014 4:30:00 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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