Interesting Fact of the Day: Specialist Nurses Are Paid More than Family Doctors for Fourth Year
MONEY -- Primary care doctors were offered an average base salary of $173,000 in 2009 compared to an average base salary of $189,000 offered to certified nurse anesthetists, or CRNAs. Projections for 2010 indicate that the average base salary for family physicians will be about $178,000 compared to $186,000 for CRNAs.
"It's the fourth year in a row that CRNAs were recruited at a higher pay than a family doctor," said Kurt Mosley, staffing expert with Merritt Hawkins & Associates.
2 Comments:
Some might say unions. I say economies of scale. Nurse transaction costs are so much lower, they are thus more productive serving more patients per day.
Another reason you would be crazy to go to medical school. Approximately twice as long and as expensive as training to be a nurse anesthetist, and you get paid less, and have higher stress and workloads (nurses almost always work on 8 hour shifts, with set breaks and lunch, and many work less than a full 40 hour week), and have much higher liability?
But that will only be a problem if you actually need a good doctor in the future - cause you will hardly be able to find one.
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