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Doctors often graduate medical school with well over $300,000 of student loan debt. Residency. It would cost a doctor $1,753 per month ($21,037 yearly) just to pay the interest on a $300,000 loan. Thatâs almost half of a doctors average net residency income of $50,000. So, for a doctor practicing internal medicine to forbear a $300,000 loan for three years during residency, then repay that loan for 20 years, it would result in an overall loan cost of $687,360. Thatâs $34,368 per year for 20 years.
Here's how much money doctors actually make. Medscape, a subsidiary of the medical information website WebMD, has released its 2015 Physician Compensation Report. The data in the report come from more than 19,500 doctors in 26 specialties who responded to Medscape's annual survey with information on their compensation for 2014. The average primary care doctor made $195,000; the average specialist made $284,000. But those averages hide quite a bit of variability based on different factors. The infographic below shows the average earnings for each surveyed specialty. Orthopedists, of whom just 9% are women, were the highest earners: