<p>Anesthesiologist get paid a lot because they have more billable procedures. Same goes for dermatologist and pathologist. For ever drug they put in and the time they put in to monitor patients, they get paid for it. Plus if they want more money they could hire and supervise more CRNA so they can cover more OR's at a time. If anesthesiologist want to make more money they usually do a pain management fellowship which have a salary of $370,000-620,000 compared to an general gasdoc who gets $275,000-450,000.</p>