my salary as a doctor in london working 40h weeks after 9 years of uni at cambridge and a phd #BMADoctorsVoteYes
@souramoo Shocking. I got paid more than that in 2008 as a junior council officer. It would be reassuring to know that the highly trained & skilled doctors I rely on as a person with cancer aren't worrying about how they are going to make rent!
@CkwMartin I'm really sorry to hear about the cancer Martin; I hope you're doing okay and that my colleagues that you rely on are looking after you well
@souramoo This was my payslip in 13 years ago in 2010 as FY1 #BMADoctorsVoteYes
@souramoo Is there a London weighting? £1671 would only just cover rent and public transport in London.
@souramoo That’s terrible. I take home effectively double, never went to uni, left education at 18. How things have gotten to this is mind blowing. Screw 20%, you guys should get 200%.
@souramoo @NikkiAbela For reference, this is only £200 more than I was paid in my first job 25 years ago AND I was provided with free hospital accommodation AND no tuition fees. Utterly utterly unacceptable.
@souramoo This is ridiculously low - especially given the time and expense spent studying. No wonder so many junior doctors move to Australia where they are paid much more.
@souramoo Have you considered setting up a limited company?
@souramoo The people on here trying to excuse this appalling pay! Please STOP promoting the race to the bottom.
@souramoo Man that government health care system is AWESOME!
@souramoo sell crack then
@souramoo That’s what I got in London straight out of PhD … in 2005. Pitiful.
@souramoo Ouch. I’m paid more than this working 4 days a week as the head of a marketing department in the education sector. I went to good schools and have a master’s and I still struggle to pay London bills. You definitely deserve more.
@souramoo When I was a house officer at St George's in 1991, I earned GBP950 net in the first month.
@souramoo disgraceful
@souramoo Come open a private practice in burgerland. “2022 Medscape report, physicians who were self-employed …made an average of $385,000 a year, while physicians employed by hospitals, universities, or clinics made an average of $320,000.”
@souramoo @dentistdorian look here
@souramoo a month???? wow …
@souramoo I agree it's too low. But also, it does go up pretty quickly. And the pension scheme is excellent.
@souramoo Shameful.
@souramoo per week?
@souramoo @noofternizz Yet in Australia, Canada and most EU countries you would be paid what you are worth. But here the Tories have increased U.K. debt to £2.5tn whilst reducing wages by 30% almost.
@souramoo Thank you for putting this salary slip up. The number of questions challenging the info- shows how little the general population understand the dire situation our medical professionals are in….
@souramoo Student doctor
@souramoo Absolutely inexcusably low and I’m so sorry the powers at be don’t value you as they should. We support you and whatever action you need to take to redress this.
@souramoo 8 years of university got me pretty much the same upon graduation, wages are depressed as hell across the board and having a PhD gets you sod all it seems. Sometimes think I would have been better off bringing my swimming badges into the interview 😂
@souramoo Just for context, my 24 year old daughter is earning as much working in a bar in Central London, after six months and with a few additional duties, than a newly appointed #juniordoctor. (And she gets free drinks and discounted meals)...
@souramoo @OReillyReads Mate. This is a disgrace. Not sure what to say. I am very disappointed in the level of suspicion that your tweet seems to have been met with though. But it’s possibly a measure of how unbelievably low the pay is. You have my support for what it’s worth. And you have my admiration
@souramoo Your gross monthly pay is over £600/month more than mine but I take home £30/month more than you. It's the deductions that are killing your pay-packet. Part of that I guess is the pension (a very nice one, but hard to afford!) but I guess a lot of the rest is student loan? :(
@souramoo Don’t forget your 4x death in service, sick pay & final salary pension which would cost the equivalent of £1million to replicate. I’m not saying you shouldn’t earn more, but let’s be clear on both sides.
@souramoo Why do I not believe a doctor's salary is £32k a year, oh that's right because it totally isn't.
@souramoo There's something off with this. You must be making payments out of that wage for more that just tax ni student loan etc. If you put that amount into a tax calculator it's just over £2000 after the deduction. I mean it's still not great but not as bad as it looks