Salary

[sencelebi]

[sencelebi]

1 hour ago, JimHuaHin said:

Her salary will depend on how many years she has been working for the Ministry of Public Health, and whether she does any over-time or not.

 

Base starting salary for medical doctors in Thai government hospitals is about Baht 25,000 per month, give or take about Baht 5,000.

 

As she is a radiologist, rather than a radiographer (someone who does a radiography degree rather than a medical degree) she would have had to have done about three-four years of specialist training after her initial employment as a general doctor (as the original post noted).  This would bring her base salary up to about Baht 45,000 per month.

 

How much doctors and specialists get paid vary slightly from government hospital to government hospital.  Some specialists at my local hospital were paid Baht 4,000 to do a 3-hour over-time shift.  However, a new hospital director was appointed and he reduced the over-time payments to Baht 2,000 for a 3-hour shift.

 

Finally "... she [the radiologist] is always moaning about the stress, competition and low pay.", which is why many specialists exit the government health care system.  Many others set up after hours private clinics, where they can earn substanially more money.  For some specialists, like radiologists, this is not an option.

 

[Bob12345]

13 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Just spoke to my mate.

His GF is 42, highly qualified Radiologist but no idea about her earnings.

She just works for the Government and no private hospitals.

Would be a shame if she would just earn around 50k

 

To become a radiologist, that's another 5-10 years after medical degree. In Europe, she would be on big wages.

According to wifey (who is a doctor, has worked and specialized at government hospitals and now works in a private hospital) she would be making about 100K depending on the number of shifts she is doing from her work there alone (pre-covid and full time employment). It is normal for doctors to work part-time in clinics and other places to supplement their income, especially when working for a government hospital, but as a radiologist her opportunities might be limited to do that.

 

  

1 hour ago, JimHuaHin said:

Base starting salary for medical doctors in Thai government hospitals is about Baht 25,000 per month, give or take about Baht 5,000.

Wow, my wife had to work as a doctor in rural areas (Korat) after graduating her 6 years of medical training, as all doctors have to do and she made about 80,000 a month working there (as a GP). Where you got that 25K figure from exactly?

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[CorpusChristie]

2 hours ago, sencelebi said:

I have a feeling that that site just takes the USA salaries and coverts those salaries from $ into Baht

[Bob12345]

15 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

I have a feeling that that site just takes the USA salaries and coverts those salaries from $ into Baht

I checked it with my wife's specialization and the average hourly salary is pretty close to what she gets at a private hospital. Monthly payments are way off though as they probably just calculate based on 40 hrs a week or something.

[CorpusChristie]

1 minute ago, Bob12345 said:

I checked it with my wife's specialization and the average hourly salary is pretty close to what she gets at a private hospital. Monthly payments are way off though as they probably just calculate based on 40 hrs a week or something.

Your Wife earns 15 000 Baht per day ?

[holy cow cm]

22 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

At my daughter's school, I know one couple, both Doctors.

They have 2 kids at private school. They own a villa with tennis court. Probably 20-30Million Baht.

You don't pay that with a 50k salary and no bank would give you tenth of millions if you earn this kind of money, even if you are a DR.

Usually their money comes from their family lineage bank and then they make money using that money. It is prestigious to be a doctor but not lucrative for all. Most doctors have a clinic for where they make the extra money. Some doctors had the money put up to them by the Thai government and then need to kick it back by service in government hospitals. 40 -50k per month is not a bad salary for a Thai, except if you live in BKK as is way too expensive.

[Letseng]

On 8/24/2020 at 6:55 AM, AlfHuy said:

30,000 baht as a specialist, having studied 6 years medicine, done a Msc and going through all this studying to be on salary you could make, managing a McDonalds. That is ridiculous.

But this is when you work for the government.

Govt. employed doctors aren't earning top salaries anywhere. They have other perks.

[Bob12345]

43 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Your Wife earns 15 000 Baht per day ?

I stated that the hourly salary stated on that website for her specialization, which is not radiology, is pretty accurate. 

 

How much she earns depends on how many patients she gets, what the patients need, if she reaches her minimum targets, how many shifts she does, etc.

[AlfHuy]

1 minute ago, Bob12345 said:

I stated that the hourly salary stated on that website for her specialization, which is not radiology, is pretty accurate. 

 

How much she earns depends on how many patients she gets, what the patients need, if she reaches her minimum targets, how many shifts she does, etc.

Great.

I think they deserve a healthy salary. The time they spend studying and later treating patients.

There are many in charge of the country who probably have no degree at all and maximum remunerations.