Lowest Paid Doctor Specialties in 2024

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[@muhammadharisansari5300]

My passion is family medicine. I don't care about financial remuneration. I care about my passion and lifestyle. The God Almighty always blesses honest efforts and hardwork.

[@josechacon6015]

Amen! Agree brother!! I am also passion for Family Med. It may not be most prestige speciality but certainly the most, if not one of, important speciality. As well we can thrive in any environment, setting and location; only certain specialties outside of general/primary medicine can do that.

[@kohlrabenschwanz]

That's a good realization. At some point in your life, you'll realize that time is a precious asset, something that no one can give back to you. Work isn't everything

[@michaelaboubenzene8400]

Hard agree

[@vitor_fg]

In the end, it's still a high salary for the US average, and you can have side hustles in your free time if you want.

[@cookiesarelikecream]

Passion yet y’all rush us during our family doctors appointments and so many of y’all are now only allowing one question per appointment

[@adam37886]

One thing people sometimes miss is a lot of the specialties that pay a lot more, also work a lot more hours a week. It's often phrased as work life balance, which equates to overall happiness. However, what this skips over is the amount per hour may actually be better, or at least not as big of a gap, between higher and lower yearly specialties. So, if a rheumatologist works 40 hours a week for say $250,000 a year, and a surgeon working 75 hours a week for say $400,000 yearly. That is about $120.00 an hour for the rheumatologist and $102.00 an hour for the surgeon. For this reason, I don't look at the yearly, as much as I do the hourly, to decide who is making more. Plus, I value my family and off time more than money.

[@prod.mysttt]

Great point

[@euansucksatfortnitenot5986]

Smart point too

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

It's so wrong for paediatrics to be so poorly compensated .... Just wrong !!!

[@hisaif7358]

Well buddy the thing is...children allowence does not pay enough for a decent insurance.

[@nanasheartss]

A huge portions of children are on Medicaid which doesn’t pay nearly as much

[@Monica-gj2yx]

I agree!

[@evanmarshall3487]

Children are literally the healthiest population possible. Most peds is clinic-based and its just vaccine schedules and health check-ups. At my hospital the pediatricians just sent out every sick kid because they hadn't done hospitalist based care or critical care in so long and were never good at it anyways. doctors that take care of *sick* kids make substantially more (like pediatric surgeons) but the vast majority of peds is clinic based, office hours, and healthy patients.

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

@evanmarshall3487 you need to come and practice in the global south let's know if you will have this same opinion ....

[@stephen.]

2/4 of my top specialist are are low paying but I think being passionate about your specialty is more important than salary in the long run

[@aqualife88]

It's sad, too, because I feel many of the most important, proactive fields are the least paid.

[@Aaron-cc7yq]

Pediatrics has itsself to blame for alot of its problems. I requiring a fellowship just to work in a hospital setting instead of an out patient clinic? Ridiculous. Then they wonder why no one wants to go into pediatrics.

[@shaq238]

It’s crazy that some sub-specialties get paid less than their unspecialized counterparts. I could have the same amount of training as a general pediatrician, pursue an additional 2-year fellowship in endocrinology, and as a reward I take a $60,000 pay cut?? It makes no sense

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

Yes, compensation isn’t a matter of training duration, but rather other factors that we explain in our How Doctors Get Paid (RVUs) video

[@alexhayden5120]

good to see fm and Im at least hitting the 300s. peds....well its criminal how low theyre paid.

[@Kyler976]

instead of the list being entirely pediatric subspecialties, it ended up being predominantly internal medicine and internal med subspecialties!

[@puppyluv271]

Me making less than 50k a year. “These are low paying” lmao but I had to remember in the “medical field” this is considered low especially after you said how much plastic surgeons make !😂

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

Even the lowest paid specialties are well paid!

[@ecpurple2240]

At the same time tho, understand what it takes to become a doctor, the journey is beyond rigorous and demanding

[@jzhvaeduh]

Did u go to school for 12 years?

[@ratycircle2558]

Please do medical illustrator 🙏🏽🙏🏽 keep up the great work!!

[@extrabreezyday5543]

Can you take about demands of different careers?

[@ewppkl]

how accurate are these numbers? Always see a lot of variation of physician salaries reported and these seem pretty high compared to other reports

[@bobbyknight3589]

Neurosurgeons maked 800k+ year but that is $250 her or so.

[@euansucksatfortnitenot5986]

I’m glad I want to be a neurosurgeon 😂😂😂

[@Jes-tg2gc]

What about residents who did a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine? i wonder what category they belong to, in the given spatializations

[@euansucksatfortnitenot5986]

But I’d rather save lives

[@averieroseluv]

please do so you want to be a neonatologist!

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

On the list thanks for requesting

[@Mango360Ru]

Yes plz!

[@fearurnightmare]

How much do pathologists make?

[@faizanalvi3932]

300k to 350k but jobs are less

[@co6429]

@@faizanalvi3932The job market in pathology is very good now, most older pathologists retired during the pandemic and opened up a lot of job vacancies. Also the number pathology residency programs is not keeping up with population growth.

[@airlion1205]

Where does he get the salary data from?

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

Numbers in this video are sourced from MedScape

[@ahmedhosny9169]

Are these salaries after taxes ?

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

No, before

[@finalbossd]

What about ID?

[@justinwade34]

yep. i don’t know how ID flew under his radar. IM also doesn’t really make 300k except for way above the median

[@finalbossd]

@@justinwade34 I double checked his source and he has ID above IM, so it probably didn’t make his list, however, all the ID docs I know make less than hospitalists.

[@ryanmaasarji9113]

What about pathology ?

[@masterninja4010]

What about psychiatrists? I thought they were the lowest-paid specialists.

[@acd1168]

Pediatrics. Psychiatrist make $300k+

[@tab8294]

Psychiatrist actually make really good

[@ebbamitiku3671]

i wonder, will i ever be a medical practioner?..........

[@zannatul23]

If you think you are going to be rich by going into medicine...then you are wrong.😊

[@E24-t6g]

Maybe if you’re an older doctor who graduated in the 70s or 80s. But with the cost of tuition in today’s age and inflation? Not easy unless someone is paying your tuition and you graduate med school debt free. Now will you still live comfortably? Of course. But you aren’t going to have yachts and several different homes and be on vacation half the year.

[@edhcb9359]

As someone who sells to doctors and has developed a lot of close friendships I can tell you with high certainty that you are wrong on this. There definitely is a path towards wealth if a physician wants to pursue it:

[@arno5751]

There's a saying that goes: "you study medicine so your children can be rich"

[@gioacevedo5]

This is just wrong. Even with massive tuition payments and delayed salaries, most physicians will make several times more than even high paid jobs like engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, etc. Even the lowest paid doctors on this list could pay 50k a year to student loans, live on 100k and invest another 50k a year. After 4 years the average student loan balance (~200K) will be paid off and they can increase their quality of life and their investments. Btw all of this is after the average tax deduction. Not to mention whatever amount their spouse could potentially make. The average physician will be a multi millionaire upon retirement, even today with decreasing insurance reimbursements. They will never be "struggling" or even low to middle class.

[@E24-t6g]

@@gioacevedo5 You’re just pulling numbers from thin air. The average physician does not retire as a multi millionaire. And the vast majority of physicians don’t have financial literacy- an issue which has even been covered several times on this channel. Most physicians aren’t dedicating 25-50% of their salary to loan payments especially if they have a family in the US in this economy where 100k is barely enough to live comfortably as a family. Just look at any of the dozens of lists made about how much is needed to live comfortably in certain states in the US in 2024. The point isn’t saying you CANT get rich as a physician. It’s reiterating that MOST won’t. By your logic anyone with any profession can “get rich” if they just save/invest 50+% of their salary - most won’t because of family expenses and poor financial literacy. Also there is a difference between living comfortably and being rich. Do doctors who don’t spend crazily make a good living? Of course! But is your average PCP in an urban city in the US a multi millionaire at age 60? Absolutely not.

[@tkmainyoutubeaccount5692]

😂❤😮 that a very good video

[@euansucksatfortnitenot5986]

I’d also like to be a nurse

[@perniciousvillager9575]

FINALLY!

[@BuddyMail]

Can we please have so you want to be a pulmonoligist ❤

[@holamiamiga3373]

FIRSTT

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