[hocndoc]

I think your numbers are high for family docs and pediatrics - some where around $100K right out of residency in some areas, with 4 weeks vacation and some other perks. Medical Economics carries the average salaries each year. I never made the "average," but I had other priorities and was self-financed for 11 years, not employed. And now, working for someone else, I'm only part time. (Heh,heh!)

ME's articles on

Office staff
http://www.memag.com/memag/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=108929


Physician's earnings (FP's median total compensation $150K)
http://www.memag.com/memag/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=123419

[vetvetdoug]

Thanks for the links. I know that the physicians average salaries in this area, even though it is economically depressed, are far greater than the national average according to the article you linked me to. Knowing the particular strength of the physicians' control of the hospital and surgery center, I understand why the physicians of this area's salaries are far above the national average. Insurance companies keep reminding us that the cost of surgery and procedures here are greater than other areas of the country. The local cardiologists, two of them, are well paid. One even owns an island in the Caribbean and flies his Lear Jet to it for vacations. I believe that physicians that have local control over hospitals and have no HMO's to contend with are well compensated.