<p>anyone know the avg starting salary for radiologists?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.physicianssearch.com/physician/salary.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.physicianssearch.com/physician/salary.html</a>
The site above lists a compendium of salaries based on various surveys.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.allied-physicians.com/salary_surveys/physician-salaries.htm</a>
This site shows an ongoing salary survey showing base salaries minus expenses for three categories depending on a doctor's experience. Starting salaries are listed under the 1-2 year column.</p>
<p>No offense, josh, but this type of question doesn't really give me a good impression of you. I hope that you're not motivated to go into medicine because of the money.</p>
<p>im just taking a shot in the dark here, but r u thinking about being a radiologist...idk man if how much they make is making u think that...maybe u should think about this a little bit harder...its gonna be a loong road and idk if that should be a big factor in ur decision...again just an opinion im sure u thought this through...ya that first site btw is a good one.</p>
<p>" hope that you're not motivated to go into medicine because of the money."</p>
<p>What??? why the hell not!! 90% of all physicians are in it for the money....it's a job that pays well....if you can do the job for 300k, do it!!</p>
<p>it's not a job that pays well at all. Doctors don't do that well anymore. Sure, some make 300,000 but a large portion make 150,000.</p>
<p>u wont survive if u go into pre-med/med school to make piles of money</p>
<p>"it's not a job that pays well at all. Doctors don't do that well anymore. Sure, some make 300,000 but a large portion make 150,000."</p>
<p>Did you even read the second link? Doctors certainly get paid their fair share, and have more room for salary improvement than, say, lawyers. While people in business can probably max out higher, few of them end up making the amount of money that a radiologist (and almost any other specialist) does.</p>
<p>Medicine is not nearly as high-paying as it was in the 70's and 80's. Malpractice insurance is reaching insane levels, as are many other costs. Also, it's a long and difficult road. Most doctors don't begin practicing until they are in their 30's, and by then many are in several hundred thousand dollars of debt. You cannot hope to be a good doctor if you are motivated only by money. Many people in i-banking and corporate management positions make much more money and work fewer hours. They also start their careers much earlier (many straight out of college).</p>
<p>Yes, but foreverZero, anyone who gets into med school will be a doctor. Many who get into business school will never get hired by an ibanking firm or have what it takes to be a senior manager. When I look at my kids, I see some who have a chance at one but not the other. It's great to suggest high paying business careers, but so many won't make it despite academic aptitude. They can in medicine.</p>
<p>Wow. It didn't take anyone very long to attack his morals.</p>
<p>The fact is, if I spend 8+ years in school and internships and residency, I would want to know if they make a decent salary too!</p>
<p>Not everyone who gets into med school becomes a doctor. There are plenty of people who drop out, and many more who quit during the grueling years of residency. Many bright high school and college students aspire to become physicians simply because they want high-paying science careers. I don't mean to sound like an idealist, but if you only care about how much money you can milk from your patients and their insurance companies, you'll make a terrible doctor. Getting into med school does not guarantee that you'll be a happy millionaire. Even if you make it all the way, you'll be in your 30's when you start practicing, your social life will very likely suffer (it may be nonexistant), and you'll be working nonstop, often in the middle of the night. When you go to work, it'll literally be a matter of life and death. I'm not trying to discourage people from going into medicine. I'm merely stating that medicine is not the easy road to a high-paying career. Remember that your patients will be trusting you with their LIVES. You shouldn't take that kind of responsibility lightly.</p>
<p>"Remember that your patients will be trusting you with their LIVES. You shouldn't take that kind of responsibility lightly."</p>
<p>Why you are explaining this in this thread?</p>
<p>If you like radiology, just do it. The money is there and will be there. Don't listen to people on these forums.</p>
<p>"Why you are explaining this in this thread?"</p>
<p>Because there were people who were encouraging him (the thread creator) to go into radiology purely for the money.</p>
<p>Husband has some interesting questions. !) Why does anyone who wants to be a doctor choose radiliogy? It is one of only a few mwdiacal specialities in which the doctor does not deal with people! 2) X-rays are now being off shored to India, radiologists here are in low demand.</p>
<p>Well, if you're not really into direct interaction with patients and instead you like to analyze things and you're more of a problem solver, radiology is a nice field. And yes, I have heard that the field of radiology could be in danger in the future now that computers are more heavily used to analyze x-rays, but I'm not entirely sure about this.</p>
<p>and 150,000 isn't good? that would be great to make just six figures.</p>
<p>"u wont survive if u go into pre-med/med school to make piles of money"</p>
<p>...yes, you will! All you have to be is smarter than average. In fact, med school is easier than engineering (course-wise, not admittance-wise). If you're smart and greedy, you're have plenty of buddies in the medical field.</p>
<p>The lowest paid doctors (i.e. family practice, phychiatrists etc.) still make 100-120k AFTER malpractice insurance. In general, the more rural the neighborhood, the more they make....so it's either 100k in cities or 180k in north dakota, it's their choice...most IM's/family practicioners average 140k, which is almost as high as CEOs (who make 160k on average).</p>
<p>Other benefits</p>
<p>1> If you work for a hospital, you can retire after 20 years service with full pension.</p>
<p>2> If you work weekends, you can take Mon-Fri off!</p>
<p>3> If you work 3 12-hour shifts in a week, the rest of the week is yours! That counts as 40 hours.</p>
<p>4> You get killer 401k, paid-time-off, vacation etc.</p>
<p>5> You don't report to anyone....you're king of your castle (sort of). Allz you have to do is talk to each patient for 10 minutes, write a persciption and you're done!!! ..... if you're a surgeon, it's fewer patients, but a lot more money.</p>
<p>6> You can move around anywhere in the country....so if your spouse needs to move cause of a job, you have no problems adapting!</p>
<p>7> Any day you don't feel like working, ask your partner to cover for you.</p>
<p>....there are tooo many benefits. As for radiology specifically, it's NOT currently being outsourced to India because the AMA has required all reviewers of the x-rays to be board-certified. There are very few AMA-board-certified radiologists in India!! It's a safe field that pays 300k...all you have to do is work for 5 years and you can retire on savings alone.</p>
<p>How can I put this politely golubb_u? That is an almost unbelievable pile of misinformed nonsense.</p>
<ol>
<li>Not just wrong, but ridiculous</li>
<li>And get paid for 2 days a week, if you can find such a job</li>
<li>It is 36 hours, and you get paid accordingly, if you can find such a job
4.wrong</li>
<li>Its a tough choice, but I award this as the most wildly inaccurate of all. In fact you work not only for the head of radiology, but also for every single physician who refers patients.</li>
<li>wrong</li>
<li>Close second to #5 for absurd</li>
</ol>
<p>"all you have to do is work for 5 years and you can retire on savings alone." You will not have paid off you med school debts at that point.</p>
<p>"...You will not have paid off you med school debts at that point."</p>
<p>This is the only thing you're correct about...You can retire after 10 years though. </p>
<p>Everything else I said is 100% correct...aside from saying "incorrect, wrong, terrible", please indicate why I'm wrong and what knowledge you have to the contrary. I have direct sources that have told me these things.</p>