Median Starting Salary

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<p>Looks like everyone should be a Physician Assistant.</p>

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<p>holy poop! What type of a degree do you need to be a phys. assistant?</p>

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<p>Requires more time than standard undergrad program folks.</p>

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<p>The article says that these are careers you can do with a bachelors degree, but all the physicians assistants I know have masters degrees. I’m not sure if you can get that with a bachelors or not, but I don’t think so. Some of the others are iffy too, IMHO.</p>

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<p>The typical PA program is 24-32 months long and requires at least four years of college and some health care experience prior to admission. The majority of students have a BA/BS degree and prior health care experience before admission to a PA program.
While all programs recognize the professional component of PA education with a document of completion for the professional credential ¶, 79 percent of the programs award a master’s degree. [112 award master’s degrees, 21 award bachelor’s degree, 3 award associate degrees, and 5 award certificates.</p>

<p>[Physician</a> Assistant Education Association](<a href=“http://www.paeaonline.org/]Physician”>http://www.paeaonline.org/)</p>

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<p>Note that if youre in the 90th percentile of whatever major you are, you make almost a 100 grand year.</p>

<p>100 grand isn’t bad at all.</p>

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[quote[Note that if youre in the 90th percentile of whatever major you are, you make almost a 100 grand year.</p>

<p>100 grand isn’t bad at all.
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<p>I seriously doubt this. For the majority of majors, experience (from internship, co-op, volunteering, etc) is at least as important as your grades.</p>

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<p>not 90 percentile of your major’s gpa, 90 percentile of starting pay of your major</p>

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<p>90th percentile of your mid career is 100 grad.
not the starting pay.</p>

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<p>My mom’s a P.A.!</p>

<p>I don’t know what her starting salary was but I know she makes well over 6-figures now.</p>

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<p>i know a few PA’s and they all went to school for 5 years and then got a job right after. you are pretty much doing all teh work of a regular physican but getting paid much less.</p>

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<p>that article is ridiculous. there is no way you can determine just by major how much people make.</p>

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<p>Please explain why you feel you can’t determine that.</p>

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