Why Do Geneticists Make So Relatively Little?

<p>MD geneticists make around what their IM or peds counterparts make, which is around 100-150k. There’s not a huge market out there for geneticists and most of them are not in private practice but rather in academics or hospitals and spend a lot of their time researching, which depresses their salary even more. It’s your typical low stress, low income specialty.</p>