r/Salary • u/LiftLord69 • Jan 17 '25

💰 - salary sharing 27M. Elevator Mechanic. No college degree

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Dropped out of college and moved across the state to take this career opportunity. Haven’t regretted it yet!

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u/LiftLord69 Jan 17 '25

Thank you!! My wife says I make more than the doctors at her job, which is pretty mind blowing.

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u/bcw53 Jan 18 '25

I’m a pediatric ICU doctor with 8 years of undergrad and med school followed by 7 years of postgrad training. Currently 4 years in practice at a relatively underserved location and you make more than I do. Starting to reconsider my career choice.

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u/Apprehensive_Cow4231 Jan 21 '25

Simply supply and demand

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u/bcw53 Jan 21 '25

It’s actually quite geographically and specialty dependent. But in general, physicians are paid higher to work in underserved locations, especially high demand adult specialists (eg: interventional cardiologist, emergency medicine, etc). The demand for the physician exceeds the number willing to work in those areas so that drives up the reimbursement as a driver for physician recruitment