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£30K you're joking aren't you! And £40K by the second year!? Eh!


Not quite. It starts at just over £20,000 when you first graduate. This is working 9-5 weekdays with no overtime, on-call, etc. It's banded so it goes up with how much you work.

It does go up every year, second year ~£24,000 unbanded.

Then you go into speciality training which is anywhere betwee £36,000 - £50,000
speciality can last up to 10 years so clearly it's going to change depending on what stage you're at

Consultant earn anywhere between £70,000 and £170,000
depending on area of speciality (EG paedatrics takes a lot less time to become specialised in than neurosurgery, which takes 15 years, so clearly the latter will pay much more), amount worked, experience and length of service

GP anywhere between £50,000 and £90,000
depending on experience and lenght of service

most GPs are self-employed though and run their own practice with contracts with the PCT.. these can get paid whatever they make in profit basically, so it's more of a gamble than a fixed rate of pay but pays off if you run your GP surgery well.


So defintley not a bad rate of pay, but I hate it when people assume that you're going to be loaded if you're a doctor, and people who go into medicine for the money really need their head looking at.
If you're clever enough to get into medicine, have the motivation/determination/committement, and you only want to do it for money, for gods sake use your brains to become an investment banker/lawyer/similar. You'll get much more money a lot faster.

£20-something K is not a lot for a 5/6 year degree, the commitment and dedication that medicine takes and the stress.
but it does go up quickly, and you do have the job security. I know that if I get into medicine I'm set for life.