After completing all of your Medical Schools for one of the top medical jobs on the planet, your Surgeon Salary or General Surgeon Salary can vary wildly depending on just a very small number of variables. Just one of these variables could possibly double your Surgeon salary. And this one factor could be responsible for possibly giving you up to double your lifetime income that you may have had if you didn’t know this one little piece of information.
We will share our medical job top tip with you below.
Most people think your top medical career tip has to be where you took your medical school or surgeon school. Yes, that can create huge bumps in General Surgeon Salaries. Otherwise there would be no such thing as Ivy League medical schools, but that’s not it.
Then next most people guess that it must be years in career or time on the job. While this too will give you a serious bump in your General Surgeon Salary it’s not it either.
Sure years in medical career (in your surgeon job) as they add up start to move your bottom line higher and higher. But our top tip could possibly give you a massive pay raise within a week or two to maybe a month or two depending upon you and how fast you want to implement it.
But before we get into the top tip let’s take a look at General Surgeon Salaries across the United States and see what the real highs and lows are.
According to the average of the top 3 job websites your average General Surgery Salary would be $214.206. They indicate they are getting that data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
However this data does not specify whether or not they are calculating all the non full time surgeons and calculating their hours out to full time or not.
Also since the data was published in their 2008 bracket it was then of course gathered in 2007 or earlier. This data does not take into account the current economy or any current trends.
Our data for General Surgeon salaries is gathered by calling on ads all across the country and contacting headhunter agencies to ghost inquire about what employers are hiring now and what they are really paying. We have found this to be the most accurate form of data to date.
The data we have collected shows a low General Surgeon Salary either right out of medical school – surgeon school or with up to 2 to 4 years experience to come in at right about $194,000 . It then shows the high end of the salaries to be at the $520,000 range. With a few (very few) going up into the 600 and 700 thousand dollar ranges.
Now, we know the 1st thing most people want to know is why such a huge disparity in Surgeon Salary ranges. Well, that will lead us to our top tip.
Our Top Tip: The way that you can possibly go all the way up to doubling your Surgeon Salary is the same thing you would be looking for if you were opening a restaurant or buy a piece of commercial real estate. The tip is: Location, location, location!
Remember the high salary and the low salary above. They weren’t because some employers were looking for Ivy league medical school graduates. They were the same exact job but in different locations.
It is entirely possible to have one of the highest surgeon salaries in one state and have one of the lowest in the next state over. Yes, it sounds odd but it is true. We will not give you the list of the lowest paying states out of respect for their residents.
However some of the highest paying General Surgeon Salary states we found were; Alaska, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nevada, California (specific cities) and Connecticut. Alaska and Hawaii should be no brainers as to why they are some of the highest payers, they are also some of the most costly states to live in.
Now, we are not saying that you should not attempt to graduate from the very best medical schools and surgeon schools you possibly can, because you should. And we are not saying that time in career won’t be a huge help either.
What we are saying is; when thinking about a massive pay raise in your surgeon career also think geographical as well. Find the top 10 highest paying states at the time of your graduating surgeon school and take a trip to the top 3 that you really think you would want to live in and decide from there.
Either way, when you are learning how to become a surgeon where you work has more General Surgeon Salary pay power than any other single factor. And if you’re an Army General Surgeon then you can easily relocate wherever you want when you get out of the military.