Abii
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2010
- Messages
- 6,690
- Reaction score
- -13
- Country
- Location
You've said a lot of bs in your time here. This post takes the cake.It depends on three things: where you are, what is your specialty, and how good you are. In some areas, a family physician might make only 100 K, while specialties that are in demand can take even over a million eg. interventional radiology, orthopedic surgery, plastic etc. These figures look high to you, because Iran's economy is not doing well. Otherwise, even metro ticket sellers, auto-mechanics and truck drivers make over 100k easy in West.
Overall, these doctor salaries, are not astronomical. They are pretty much mid-range. A fresh software engineer worth his/her salt starts with over 100k nowadays. The highest salaries are actually that of charted accountants and competent lawyers. A good charted accountant can expect to take home millions of dollars. Doctors are by comparison living mediocre. Alot of stress, responsibility and almost continuous studies. The only thing which is abit different, from other fields, is a bit higher (just abit, certainly not alot) respect from general public.
Money-wise, medicine is not a good option. It takes a long time to become good at a specialty almost always when you are well into your 40's and 50's and still you will be making less than a 22 year old software kid at Google. If I have any advice for kids who are making decision regarding their occupation (13-20 year olds), I would urge them to follow what they truly love. They should disregard money. As for you, if you want to take up things in US, you must start preparing for USMLE. To increase your chances, you will need to aim for 99 (at least on step I and II). It is not easy. But it is do-able.
wtf is a "metro ticket seller"? Seriously what is that? You get tickets from a machine. There's no such a thing as a "metro ticket seller."
Chartered accountant making a million dollars? Are you out of your mind? If he has his own business or if he's a partner, then maybe, but it would be in year 15 of his career at the earliest. I studied accounting and salaries in Canada are even higher than in the US so don't try to bull shit me. Also, lawyers in the US make shit money for the most part. Only the ones that make partner make good money and most don't. The education isn't regulated in the US like it is in a place like Canada so you've got a bazillion law students running around. In Canada, for example, there are only 6 civil law schools and a dozen common law schools, that's it. All graduates make okay money, but the gravy train won't leave station till they make partner.
Take a look at average salaries and median after tax incomes for Americans. What you wrote is complete manure. A mechanic can make a bazillion dollars. But after overhead, he's only taking home 50K a year max.
The only thing you said that wasn't complete bs was this:
It depends on three things: where you are, what is your specialty, and how good you are. In some areas, a family physician might make only 100 K, while specialties that are in demand can take even over a million
@haman10
It really does depend on the specialty and the market. If you run your own practice, your overhead will be huge and unless you have a good reputation and you're seeing a lot of patients, you won't be making much. For example a dentist or a family doctor with his/her own office has to pay 2-3 receptionists, lease equipment (not cheap at all), lease the office, pay for utilities, pay insurance and there's obviously income tax. All that takes away a good chunk of the sales away. In your case, you'd have to finish med school in Iran and after a few years of trying to come to the West, try to pass their exams and take courses again. After you finish all those you have to work wherever they tell you to. It could take years and years till you start having a decent life. We have a couple of family friends here that had to go through re-certification. One of them didn't make it and decided to call it quits. Your degree and experience in Iran isn't worth much here, at least not in Canada. Even if you have a decade of experience in Iran, you'd have to do a bunch of exams at the very least. It is something worth investigating though.
Edit: where did you get that chart btw? It doesn't say what market it's from.
Last edited: