How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Specialists of salary sg forum, would you mind sharing your specialty, position and approximate total compensation?

Trying to create better transparency and give juniors more info to work with

Reposting for visibility

PGY23 Histopathologist with PATHLAB salary around the mid 500k range. Lowly paid relative to my rad onc friends they are clearing well over a million

Originally Posted by Unregistered

PGY23 Histopathologist with PATHLAB salary around the mid 500k range. Lowly paid relative to my rad onc friends they are clearing well over a million

When did u leave pte?
Actually this is path max
In restructured senior con abt 500k or high 400k

Alternative is u open ur own lab, but that require 20mil capital
Although histopath, u can also arga arga run micro and chem path labs

Originally Posted by Unregistered

When did u leave pte?
Actually this is path max
In restructured senior con abt 500k or high 400k

Alternative is u open ur own lab, but that require 20mil capital
Although histopath, u can also arga arga run micro and chem path labs

So guys moral of the story
Don't go path, don't go fm

It is either paeds or onco or aesthetics

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So guys moral of the story
Don't go path, don't go fm

It is either paeds or onco or aesthetics

I disagree. If your interested in some specialty just pursue it. Beyond 500k sgd money is no longer the limiting factor for ur happiness. I’d rather do something i love and make 500k than not like my job and make a mil but that’s just me

Originally Posted by Unregistered

bond breaker, ex-gen surg. resident
Made the dive to aesthetics 10 years ago and never looked back
Making millions in profit yearly but only drawing a maintenance salary of 200k (co-owner of an aesthetics group)

That’s a really cool journey and it’s nice to hear that you had the courage to take the leap. Did you start with working for another clinic or did u start ur own right away?

This thread exploded with mummy1234 talk about her $3.4m landed valued at $4m!

I feel sorry for the young generation. Life is getting very hard because salaries are not rising in tandem with the increase in housing. I foresaw this 20 years ago. What I did not foresee was that it would be something happening globally. So now it is also difficult for my kids to own property even though they are not living in Singapore.

The only way is to be involved in finance and investments. Either working in it or investing.

Those of you who said need parents help are very right. It's come to a point you wonder whether working is even sensible at all. Better to spend time and energy on learning how to invest, work the markets, be a landlord, learn to prospect property deals etc.

Forget about medicine if you really are looking at becoming rich. Opening a clinic group and running the business is a possible way but has its barriers and risks as well.

Ideally, hope your parents are rich and have several Singapore properties.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This thread exploded with mummy1234 talk about her $3.4m landed valued at $4m!

I feel sorry for the young generation. Life is getting very hard because salaries are not rising in tandem with the increase in housing. I foresaw this 20 years ago. What I did not foresee was that it would be something happening globally. So now it is also difficult for my kids to own property even though they are not living in Singapore.

The only way is to be involved in finance and investments. Either working in it or investing.

Those of you who said need parents help are very right. It's come to a point you wonder whether working is even sensible at all. Better to spend time and energy on learning how to invest, work the markets, be a landlord, learn to prospect property deals etc.

Forget about medicine if you really are looking at becoming rich. Opening a clinic group and running the business is a possible way but has its barriers and risks as well.

Ideally, hope your parents are rich and have several Singapore properties.

The sad thing is this is across every single career. Therefore as a student going into Medicine, i’ve taught myself trading and run a business so that in the future I have thr skills and capital to grow my wealth. No matter the career it’s no longer possible to easily become rich as an employee. Being a doctor is still a high paying career but even a high paying career isn’t enough by itself. One needs to invest and grow their capital. In fact i grew my savings of 30k to 100k via smart investments in a year

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This thread exploded with mummy1234 talk about her $3.4m landed valued at $4m!

I feel sorry for the young generation. Life is getting very hard because salaries are not rising in tandem with the increase in housing. I foresaw this 20 years ago. What I did not foresee was that it would be something happening globally. So now it is also difficult for my kids to own property even though they are not living in Singapore.

The only way is to be involved in finance and investments. Either working in it or investing.

Those of you who said need parents help are very right. It's come to a point you wonder whether working is even sensible at all. Better to spend time and energy on learning how to invest, work the markets, be a landlord, learn to prospect property deals etc.

Forget about medicine if you really are looking at becoming rich. Opening a clinic group and running the business is a possible way but has its barriers and risks as well.

Ideally, hope your parents are rich and have several Singapore properties.

The sad thing is this is across every single career. Therefore as a student going into Medicine, i’ve taught myself trading and run a business so that in the future I have thr skills and capital to grow my wealth. No matter the career it’s no longer possible to easily become rich as an employee. Being a doctor is still a high paying career but even a high paying career isn’t enough by itself. One needs to invest and grow their capital. In fact i grew my savings of 30k to 100k via smart investments in a year

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1st year Emergency medicine AC in restructured hospital.

Im guessing around 250k.with some inhospital locums push to 300k.

shocked by the paeds person in TMC

That’s pretty great! do u know what ur progression will be like going forward and is there any private potential

Do all SC in hospital able to hit 500k ?