Although the process of deciphering the quipu system is still just beginning, scholars surmise (at least) that information is stored in cord color, cord length, knot type, knot location, and cord twist direction.
National Salary Statistics. According to a 2011 salary survey conducted by Medscape, general surgeons practicing in the United States earned an average of $265,000. About 19 percent of general surgeons reported annual incomes of less than $100,000, and 15 percent of general surgeons earned between $100,000 and $200,000.
This means that the median annual general surgeon salary is about $341,500, or $164 an hour. This is a hefty sum of money, and one normal to top physicians working in the medical fields.The top 10th percentile of general surgeons will bring home at least $461,000, or $222 every hour, sometimes more.our hourly rates assume a 40 hour work week for general surgeons, which is absolutely ludicrous. Most general surgeons work somewhere between 60 to 80 hours per week (or more), much of that spent on call at late hours. That âlife of luxuryâ comes at quite a price.