[FireBeyond]

Right, the answer is somewhere in between.

When I worked on an ambulance, I'd be at the hospital several times a day - in the ER doctor lot, a sampling of the cars:

- multiple Tesla S's - 3 Porsche Cayenne - 2 Audi S5s - several Escalades

Whilst there are two sides to the story, let's not pretend that doctors live hopeless lives, saddled with a lifetime of crippling student loan debt, barely able to keep their heads above water to selflessly help people.

There is a medical group in Kansas/Indiana, I think, that was trialling the novel idea of "fixed price surgery"... looking at right on $100K for cardiac bypass.

Me? To look at my explanation of benefits, the billing for my kidney stone last year peaked at over $60K.

[Domenic_S]

Did you see the age of those same doctors? Virtually guaranteed none of them were < 40.

A fair calculation of salary is some evaluation of (years of training required * intrinsic skill required * benefit to society). If you accept that, then doctors are surely near the top.