Money magazine recently highlighted the top paying careers nationwide. Guess who came out on top:
1. AnesthesiologistBest Jobs rank: 11Median salary: $292,000Top pay: $408,000The high pay for anesthesiologists reflects inherent stress in a job that is literally about life and death. "Anesthesiologists get patients safely and intact through operations while surgeons do things that would otherwise kill them," says Roger Moore, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The big salaries are also a payback for the 12-plus years of training required before an anesthesiologist can start practicing.
the dubious honor was also kindly bestowed on none other than:
4. Nurse AnesthetistBest Jobs rank: 15Median salary: $157,000Top pay: $214,000Like the anesthesiologists to whom they report, nurse anesthetists get paid to never make a mistake. Anesthesia mortality rates have fallen from two deaths per 10,000 in the 1980s to 1 per 200,000 today. That means nurse anesthetists must be at the top of their game, even when working a 2 a.m. shift or staffing the ER on New Year's Eve.
In these times of health care belt-tightening, this is an honor we could do without. The truth is we all know many more of our surgical, GI, rads, and derm colleagues who manage to double and triple our salaries but the survey methodology is far from perfect.
The article is not all bad as it appears the editors feel like we deserve our compensation which is nice. If only the Obama/Pelosi juggernaut felt the same. Sigh!
2 comments:
Ok, not moving to the US ;)
We induce respiratory arrests for a living, and care for the patients while someone else sticks knives in them. Fair compensation, I think.
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