$230k, which when indexed by median household income, is comparable to the UK at 100k (I assume you used dollars? If not that’s $126k).
Edit: I’m not making any tax statements because taxes are unavoidable and applied to everyone in the nation, so are part of the indexing. That said US taxes sound comparable or more in some areas (taxes in NYC for instance can exceed 50%)
While it depends on the specialty, in Australia it is not uncommon for consultants to be on AUD 300-400K (= 150-200K GBP, 200-250K USD). I don't understand why salaries in the UK are so low, even for highly educated professionals.
My grandfather was a GP. He hated the NHS so much, he left the UK and never went back. Pay was likely a factor, but he also viewed the NHS as a denial of his professional freedom. While Australia eventually adopted something akin to the NHS (Medicare), I don't think he objected so much to that, since it involved less government control over the how of his job.
>Earn £100,000 in 2023/24 and you'll take home £67,049. This means £5,587 in your pocket a month. Over the year you'll pay £27,432 income tax and £5,519 in national insurance.
It varies quite widely by location because the income often reflects the number of patients and what source their income is from (Medicare, private insurance, uninsured). The med school debt for family medicine doctors can be quite daunting to pay off
My brother has lived in all three of the US, UK and Australia, doing non-professional jobs (construction, agriculture, gardening, cellar hand in the wine industry).
He didn't last long in London – he was working as an unskilled labourer in the construction industry, the pay was terrible, and the basic necessities of life were so expensive, he could hardly afford to eat. He'd worked similar jobs in Australia and got paid a lot more, and found life more bearable.
Some countries pay high because everything is expensive. Some countries pay low because everything is cheap. The UK seems to be a place where people get paid low because everything is expensive.
Absolutely true. But saying UK doctors are underpaid because they’re paid half of a US doctor while ignoring everyone is paid half of a US person for everything is disingenuous. Everyone in the UK is inexplicably underpaid, and everything is expensive.
He lived in a small town in Oregon with his first wife. While they weren’t paid a lot, life wasn’t expensive either. I think he would have stayed except the marriage didn’t work out. Obviously that isn’t an entirely fair comparison to London, but I still think the pay-to-expenses ratio would be more favourable in small-town US than small-town UK
UK a consultant earns £100k pretax and pays approximately 30% net tax rate and 60% marginal rate.
What about US?
Apparently family medicine in the US brings in 130% more than the equivalent in the UK (GP which makes up half of all UK doctors).
https://revisingrubies.com/us-vs-uk-doctors-salary/
That's truly astounding.