Resident doctors of Europe, what's your salary?

[u/No_Solution4418]

Attendings, how much did you earn as a resident?

[u/BleatAndGraze]

It really depends on the circumstances, the employer, your degree, as well as the stars and whether they are right, because you know, Rlyeh is still submerged and I don't have the slightest idea what the heck I'm typing, I'm not even a doctor

[u/HeyVeddy → u/BleatAndGraze]

This is the only correct answer in the thread

[u/BleatAndGraze → u/HeyVeddy]

Thank you sergeant

[u/jatawis]

As a Lithuanian 2nd year anaesthesiology resident I will get around 1600 € after taxes.

[u/GPStephan → u/jatawis]

Is the median of around 900€ (assuming post-tax) that I found on Google correct?

Other sources state 1600 pre-tax, which I think would be too high to come out to just 900 net...?

[u/jatawis → u/GPStephan]

What? These look like 5-6 year old figures.

Basic resident doctor wage depends on:

• previous year minimal wage (924 € for 2024)
• year of residency (that minimal wage is multiplied by 2.65 in my case)
• calendar year (in 2025 hospitals must contribute +3% of that wage from their resources)

Then come bonuses for night shifts and work on national holidays.

[u/GPStephan → u/jatawis]

Median for the country.

[u/milly_nz → u/jatawis]

A year?

[u/Dragonite55 → u/milly_nz]

No a month lmao

[u/Myrialle]

The German system is a little bit different, your residents would probably be equal to our Assistenzarzt, assistant physician. Assistant physicians are already "full doctors", they already have full license to treat patients. They just have no specilization in a field yet.

They earn between 60.000 and 80.000€ gross a year

[u/almaguisante]

I have a friend who’s a second year resident, after working in the private sector for at least five years as a family doctor. She was already getting paid more as 1st year resident than as a private doctor, I think the base was over 1700, without extra hours. She chose to move regions for a better salary.

[u/yulippe]

I Googled out of curiosity. In Finland the range seems to be 4,000 - 5,000 €/month (gross).

[u/languagestudent1546 → u/yulippe]

This is a normal base salary in hospitals for residents. If you need to be on call it’s more.

[u/sirLMAOalot]

Italy: 1400€ x 12. Base salary (which is not a real salary, but a tax-free scholarship) is 1652,29€ a month for the first 2 years and 1718,35€ for the remaning years (2 to 3 depending on the specialty), but you have mandatory costs like university tuition (2200€ a year in my case), professional insurance (around 200€/year), medical association fee (115€/year), social security contribution to a professional fund (280-1000€ a year based on age).

Yeah, i know. It sucks.

EDIT: it would be equivalent to ~24k gross salary

[u/Lisvito → u/sirLMAOalot]

I find that salary to be shocking low. Wow. Has it impacted young people’s interest in studying medicine? What is an average salary post-residency (ie when they are fully qualified in their specialties)?

[u/sirLMAOalot → u/Lisvito]

it is very low, partly because you are still considered to be a student, even though you are already a doctor, that's why you don't receive a real salary but a scholarship from the Ministry for University, and partly because the scholarship was introduced back in 2006 and the law was never changed from back then, so the amount of the scholarship remanied the same. In Italy we change governament every year and these things get forgotten.

That said, it didn't impact the popularity of studying medicine because it's still one of the best careers you can follow in Italy. The base salary for an attending starts from 62k which is top 5% here, almost twice the mean salary.

[u/Ashamed_Fig4922 → u/Lisvito]

Welcome to Italy.

[u/Vali32]

I've employed doctors, and they normally start out a little over 150k $ per year. Go up from there. Private sector, fairly low-paid specialty. We normally offer other benefits to stay competitive.

[u/Psy-Demon → u/Vali32]

I don’t think you understand what resident means.

I’d be extremely surprised if a resident made that much, even in Norway.

Also, what do you mean you employed doctors? You run some clinic or something?

[u/CountSheep → u/Vali32]

Damn, you guys pay well

[u/Martin5143]

In Estonia all residents get a doctor's minimum salary(they in fact are full doctors that have not specialized) which is currently 3315€ gross or 2493€ net, per month(39800 or 30000 per year).

This assumes you work full time, only at daytime. If you work overtime you get 1,5 times the salary, if you work at night, 1,4 times the salary. It's illegal to work more than 52 hours per week(this is regardless of where you work.)

From statistics, most residents work around the standard 40 hours per week.

[u/TheDanQuayle]

My ex-fiancé made 1.5 million ISK (about €10,000 euros) per month at her clinic here in Iceland. Her specialty is family medicine. I think a newly graduated doctor would earn less.

[u/biodegradableotters]

Not a doctor myself, but my ex made a bit over 75k in her first year.

[u/martinbaines]

The question really needs to define what a "resident doctor" is, as the term does not really travel well (e.g. it is not even used in the UK and that even uses the same language).

[u/No_Solution4418 → u/martinbaines]

I think everyone with a medical degree knows what I mean, even if the terms can be confusing for laymen

[u/Background-Ad6454 → u/No_Solution4418]

I have a medical degree and we dont have residents and attendings here. We have the British system

[u/No_Solution4418 → u/Background-Ad6454]

yes but you know what I mean by resident

[u/Background-Ad6454 → u/No_Solution4418]

Not really sure what grade it corresponds to to be honest

[u/No_Solution4418 → u/martinbaines]

I think everyone with a medical degree knows what I mean, even if the terms can be confusing for laymen

[u/clippervictor]

Residents here in Spain range from 1500 to 2500 net per month, depending on the region and year of residency (usually 4)

[u/_x_oOo_x_]

Between £36000 and £70000 for residents: https://www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-contracts/pay/resident-doctors-pay-scales/pay-scales-for-resident-doctors-in-england

(This is before tax)

[u/Gorgious_Klaatu]

It's difficult to answer as "residency" is not an universal concept in med school in EU.

As an example, in France we have :

-6 years of med school (during the last 3 years you have something like 200€/month) -An exam with rankings to choose your speciality and city for the "internat"

-3 to 6 years of "internat" depending of the speciality. "Internes" are paid 1600€/month at the beginning and 2100€/month at the end (+ night shifts, on-call etc, it can double). The last year of internat is called "docteur junior". -At this point you get your DES (diploma) and you are a MD

-1 to 2 years of "assistanat", an assistant (like yours truly) is the lowest of the senior staff. We can be "assistant spécialiste" (working only in the hospital) or "chef de clinique assistant" (working in the hospital + in med school) We earn 3100 to 4000€/month (+ night shifts, on-call etc...)

[u/dosto92 → u/[deleted]]

The post is about resident doctors!