Money Magazine has ranked the job of college professor as the second best job to have in the United States. The rankings are based both on salary and on letter grades awarded on various factors. Professor received a B for stress, A for flexibility, A for creativity and C for difficulty. Software engineer was the only job to rank higher. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/top50/index.html
What I find unbelievable is the amount of money a medicine doctor makes: $250,000 per year...... Wow!
Of course, when you consider the hassle of dealing with insurance, the extremely long hours and the overwhelming cost of malpractice insurance, I won't ever begrudge doctors what they get paid.
Yeah, you´re right.... I ´d rather work in WalMart for 10 bucks an hour. Let others deal with those insurance hassles, and those long hours .....
Definitely, even if a 10-15% of your salary goes to pay student loans, and another chunk goes to taxes/insurance/etc, you are still a very rich man/woman. Plus those figures represent the average. I am sure experienced MD´s make much more....
Speaking as an administrator at a large medical clinic, the average salary of a physician in the USA varies dramatically by specialty and to a lesser extent, location. Pediatricians average around $ 155,000, ophthalmologists $ 300,000, anesthesiologists $ 300,000, family practice $ 160,000, general surgeons $ 260,000 and diagnostic radiologists $ 400,000. The average physician graduating these days also has six-figure student loans with a typical repayment period of 10-15 years. The typical 'clinic overhead' (rent, staff, supplies, business taxes, etc.) is about 70-75% or so. This means that of your $ 85 office visit fee, the physician actually gets around $ 22 of that as their compensation.
I question some of those salaries. I looked at it yesterday and recall that they had writers at 60k. Even if that is the mathematical average (maybe JK Rowling skewed the data), it can't be typical.
Are most writers paid poorly? Would a technical writer fall into the "writer" category? While tech writers aren't going to get rich, 60K sounds about write for their mean income.
As an interesting fact, JK Rowling is married to an anesthesiologist. This may be one of the few marriages in which the anesthesiologist part of the couple makes considerably less than the other part of the couple.
This article, like most journalism today, was apparently written by someone who knows how to look up numbers on the Internet but has little to no actual knowledge of the subject they are writing about. One example is accountant, which comes in at #44. They claim the top paying accounting position is "Tax Accountant IV", with an average salary of 80,482. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the largest accounting firm in the world, the most commonly held position is manager. The average salary of a manager at PwC is 83,000. According to this article, every one of them has the top job! I suspect the figures are off because they are including bookkeepers under the title of accountant. But that's about as misleading as including paralegals in lawyer. Not that I care though, the less people who join the field the better for me!
I'm a software engineer. I agree with this ranking for the most part, except that I rate the stress higher than they do.
