"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Various resources on the 'net list a physician's average income as
ranging
anywhere from $129K to $255K annually.
That makes it about the same as mid-level managers at my former place of
employment.

Perhaps this is why they are no longer employing so many people?

When a business is paying mid-level managers what a physician averages in
salary, something is seriously amiss. Unless the company is making gold,
or
selling crack, their profit margins aren't going to support such a salary
structure for long.

The only time a pay rate such as that is too high is when the productivity
doesn't match. That's true whether it's managers, executives or burger
flippers.

Remember, too, that doctors are mostly self-employed, so those numbers are
NET PROFIT (after paying BIG insurance costs, staff, rent,
this-that-and-the-other costs). In Gross income, it's probably more like a
couple million $$$.

Run a nicely profitable $60 million company and that income would not be out
of line. :~)
Keep it profitable in hard times and a higher number is certainly justified.