12 Responses to National Average Income for Medical Doctors

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   dr.saeideh on 2012/02/13 at 11:50 pm

   Dear Agent
   It is written in your web site that the income for family physicians in Quebec is 171000 annualy .
   Is it the net salary or the taxe must be taken?
   thank u
   dr,saeidi

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   raphaella on 2011/10/13 at 2:59 am

   those salaries are without overhead, im 99% sure. Im a PGY-2 resident in psychiatry(i.e. 2nd year). Psychiatry has a small overhead, fam doctors have more overhead, for instance.
   other remarks: ER medicine is also a sub specialty on its own (5 years residency), one year fellowship after fam med is just another option, basically confined to work in community hospitals, never academic ones, and unlikely to be in a big city.
   -how come in Quebec, the salaries are lower question. Answer: in Quebec, all physician salaries are lower. Specialists were on strike abou this in 2006. Didn’t fix the situation at all. It’s a disgrace and it sucks.

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     wes on 2011/10/14 at 2:19 am

     Bear in mind….it costs far far less to attend a university/college in Quebec.

     So, if those doctors in Quebec enjoyed low tuition to start with, then they shouldn’t complain about low salaries, either. You start low, then finish low.

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     Bob on 2011/11/01 at 10:49 pm

     Why does Quebec pay less? These numbers are several times what doctors in France, Germany and Japan make.

     Doctors salaries in English Canada are driven up the our proximity to the USA, common language and largely common popular culture.

     I suppose Quebecers have less in common with the USA so this income inflating effect is less.

     It works the other way too, Quebec houses cost a lot less than in other successful cities in Canada, probably because of the lack of prosperous immigrants driving up prices.

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     Annie on 2011/12/14 at 6:56 pm

     Would you mind explaining the difference in salary if I were to practice psychiatry or psychology in Canada (Anywhere really, Ontario, B.C..)? Is it worth going the extra step and doing psychiatry or should I stick to psychology, because I prefer focusing on the behavioral rather than biological aspects of humans?

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     Jarrod on 2012/07/29 at 5:30 pm

     The 2+1 emergency route does not “confine” anyone to any particular setting. Many of my colleagues are working in level 1 trauma academic centers in large cities with these credentials as did I for a while.

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   med rules on 2011/05/21 at 2:26 am

   These are gross physician billings. You need to deduct overhead expenses which range from 30-50% to get the actual “income”.

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   Konstantin on 2011/04/10 at 8:06 pm

   Interesting note: Neurosurgeons in Nova Scotia and Quebec make MUCH less than everywhere else. I wonder why?

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   medstudent on 2011/03/23 at 5:25 pm

   these are all gross billings. From this take away overhead expenses, then take away taxes, and youll be looking at what the docs take home in their pockets. overhead typically ranges from 25-40%. As a good guesstimate, cut in half the number you see, and thats probably close to what they take home.

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   Karen on 2010/05/21 at 3:45 pm

   Can you please post a link to the health canada report cited?

   thank-you

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   Curious on 2010/02/26 at 10:30 am

   Nothing about Emergency Medicine ? It’s a 1 year subspecialty of Family Medicine (generally).

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   Superstar on 2009/06/21 at 2:54 pm

   Are those net incomes or gross incomes? I wonder what the average overhead expenses are in each specialty.

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