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Originally Posted by Redway

Yup. An experienced nurse could run medical rings around your bog-standard GP (a junior one at that). One’s on their feet for 12+ hours day and night. GPs are paid to know a little about a lot rather than know a lot about anything in particular. But even then GPs are on a crap salary relative to the States/maple-and-yank land and that would be the case even with an 11% pay rise.

In the US doctors are always thought of as high earners... And I remember growing up in the UK thinking the same - that if you're a doctor you're raking it in.

Maybe it was never entirely true? But I know that it certainly isn't now. The low end of the range starts at something like £30k which at this point, after tax and student loans, only works out a couple of hundred quid a month over minimum wage.

I think most people find that quite surprising.