Residency Salary by Gender Since residency salaries are standardized and nonnegotiable, there is never a salary difference based on gender. Residency Salary by Residency Year Residency salary increases for each year of residency training. About MedEdits MedEdits helps students get admitted to medical school and residency programs. Follow Dr. The lowest-paid residents are in family medicine. Residents' salaries inch upward each year as the doctors gain more experience.
One projection looks like this:. Demand for physicians and surgeons is expected increase in the next decade as the population ages and rates of chronic illnesses, like diabetes, climb. New technology and treatments will also drive the need for physicians.
This means the number of resident doctors will also grow. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the need for doctors will increase by 13 percent between and , nearly double the rate of average job growth for all professions. The majority of residents in the US also receive added benefits like health insurance, paid time off, and dental insurance among other perks.
Due to the nature of the US healthcare system and medical union activity, these perks vary quite widely by institution, but they are common to at least three quarters of residency programs. Resident compensation is typically negotiated between residency associations or unions and the provinces. As such, average resident compensation is easy to chart and understand. Our numbers come from CaRMS. While these pay structures are typically reported by province, it may be more illuminating and easier to compare if we examine each year of residency and fellowship across provinces.
All numbers refer to gross annual salary guidelines:. Patterns here are fairly obvious. In addition to annual salary, resident associations also negotiate the amount or scale of other benefits like vacation time, call stipends, conference leave, educational leave, and parental leave. Additionally, resident associations and unions will negotiate for a greater array of benefits. Some agreements include meal allowances, dental coverage, and even wedding leave.
Overall, residents are quite happy with their programs, and while compensation may vary somewhat the experience and structure of these programs continues to be enlightening and transformative for each successive cohort. This is somewhat hard to answer, but on average residents in both countries enjoy about the same initial pay, with similar yearly increases.
There are two very important distinctions though. The other factor is that residency compensation agreements in Canada are usually much more comprehensive, including dental care, more time off, and more, whereas in the US these added benefits are inconsistent from program to program at best.
So: you may make slightly more money in some US residency programs, but odds are the supplementary benefits in Canadian programs will be far greater. Plastic surgery and neurosurgery, for instance, are among the most competitive programs year after year, and also top the list of average resident salaries above. There are exceptions to this though. Dermatology, for instance, is extremely competitive, and sits right around average in resident pay. I imagine it has mostly has to do with number s of hours worked.
But this would have to be studied to know for sure. I know in my practice, my coworker has had 3 babies in 3 years and takes 3 months off each time.
I should be making more than her In those years. I have been an independent rural Family Practitioner for 27 years…. If a male or female Family Practitioner sees the same number of patients in a day, with the same acuity, there should be no discrepancy in pay based on gender….
Excellent point, thank you! I was just trying to make sense of that, too. And, as a female, I felt upset by the data. Because it is …I sincerely hope that the income gap is a result of a different number of hours worked, nothing else. I agree. The salary gender gap is discriminatory as well as arrogant. My Wife and 2 Daughters are D.
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