Non-specialist doctors who join medical groups as general practitioners earn a starting pay of $10k/mth, with a 13th-month bonus thrown in. In other words, these salaried medical professionals make $130k/yr fresh out of training.
This is according to an article in yesterday’s Straits Times, which highlighted the trend of young doctors joining medical groups instead of starting their own private clinics.
Starting a solo practice requires $150k or so, said a doctor who’s with a medical group. And the income may or may not be better.
“… a highly successful solo practitioner can earn ($20k/mth) or more, but a less successful one may make $8k to $9k or less, said (another doctor).”
See also our 2007 articles on Doctors’ pay and Income of GP Doctors.
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Business owners can make the most money in terms of potential, although there are a small number of salaried jobs that make way more than the pay above.
6th year into employment would mean a Singaporean guy is 31. $132k at 31 is peanuts. There are one or two jobs (one of which I’m doing) that pay $100k+ ballpark at 23, by 25 ballpark $120k, and by 28, ballpark $180k, and by 32, ballpark $300k.
Traders of average performance can take home $500k at 25. 🙂
what jobs are those? are they finance related?
I wonder how stupid exactly the NUS medicine students/grads are. They’re still knee deep sucked into their delusions about how much their education is really worth (based on what THEY ARE TOLD) by the people who are providing it, and then told they’re “subsidised” by another amount and then told they have to then pay back with a bond of servitude in exchange for getting…..*drumroll*….nothing.
They’re so deeply deluded and the whole saga here shows how lacking in critical thinking abilities they are.
it’s the same with HDB’s “market subsidy”. uniquely singapore.
to bubble: no, it merely shows how badly trolled you are. you need to understand it’s just sarcasm. chill out man.
It’s no longer uniquely Singapore. It’s now ‘Your Singapore’ and the ads run in foreign countries. So it’s foreigners’ Singapore in other words. Citizens come last. Foreigners are a class above. Get it?
Actually Malaysian fresh medical grad only earn $2.7k + $600 Housing allowance. That’s pay for house officer. When goes to MO, pay basic only increase by $1k and nothing change. We still pay tax to Sg Gov though~~
btw, we have to serve bond in sg as well, and time period within this 3 yrs bond, we r not allowed to do locum
Does anyone know how much private psychiatrists charge in singapore? Lets say for 15 minutes.
robert
I am also curious about how much the income of a private psychiatrist or private child psychiatrist could be in Singapore?
Anyone knows if an overseas medicine grad can jump into being a GP straight after attaining the doctor of medicine? Would there be a salary difference for local grads vs overseas grads? Thanks.
No you can Unless you are a specialised GP ie a family.medicine specialist. No difference for local and oversea grad. But if you are foreigner your license only fully registered after 4 years.
What will be the pay for a doctor trained in China but of an african citizenship? What are the requirements to be allowed to work in Singapore for this graduand let’s say like is there a state entrance exams or board exams to sit for? Thank you.
do you really this all the salary stated above is big money?at all??lol…
do you really think all the salary stated above is really big money??housing agents can make such money…get off your delusions that you are rich..lol..remember singapore is a pretentious little island…lol