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scotland222
  9/23/2014 10:23 EST

Hi there just out of interest , what is classed as a Half decent salary. In colombia,thank you.

Pacho1983
  9/23/2014 15:10 EST

I am also curious about that. Especially after somenone mentioned on this forum that an averager salary for a doctor is around $1,000 per month. I have a hard time believeing that. If that is the case, why do so many go into the profession?

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Patricio
  9/23/2014 15:55 EST

i am an expat md from US and in my latin american travel do know the average physician in all of the countries make nowhere near the salaries of the US. The only high-earners are the tiny fraction who have carved a niche, in things like eye surgery innovations, plastic surgery, or cancer treatment, among others.

Colombia average salary is something like 350USD/month for the working force, and many executives earn way more than the average md in this country at least.

thelocogringo
  9/23/2014 17:26 EST

I do know a little about salerys. A just out of school general practitioner working for an EPS (think HMO) receives from 1.6 to 2.2 million a month. A specialist working for an EPS earns between 2.5 and 4 million a month. A doctor in a private practice like a urologist earns between 4 and 10 million, depending on where and how good he is and the social circles he runs in. A plastic surgeon, good at what he does can earn 5 to 15 million and the few who have thier own clinics and run a boob, tummy tuck, lipo and face mill earn as much as 20 to 30 million a month.

A bank teller earns on average, 800 mill. The bank manager, 2.5 to 3.5 million. A nurse in a clinic or hospital, starts out at about 800mill and can earn up to 1.2 million. A special nurse like one that assist a surgeon or works in a CCI unit, 2 to 3 million.

A carpenter in a furniture factory, 650 to 850 mill a month. The head carpenter, supervising 15 workers 1 to 2 million.

A colection lawyer working for a credit company or a lender, 1 million.

A taxi driver that owns his own car and works 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, 1 to 3 million. A taxi driver that works shifts in someone elses car, about a million a month.

Half of the on the books work force earns the min, 615 mill a month. The cost to an employer of a min wage worker with all the benefits, 1 million a month.

This gives you an idea of the range of salaries.

Patricio
  9/23/2014 17:43 EST

Excellent information, thanks very much!!!!

How do minimum wage people make it? Selladeros, 2 of them, man the front desk/garage of my apto 24/7, each work 12 hr. shifts, 6 days/week for min. wage. one then rides his bike one hour each way to and from work. Crazy! But they are lined up for his job if he complains.

thelocogringo
  9/23/2014 18:41 EST

Good question, how do they make it? When I lived in Cartagena in a full service building, the porteros earned about 1 million a month and it cost the building about 1.5 million. We paid the over time and night shift bonus but saved on vacation pay, prima bonus, uniforms, liquidation, vacation, pension, health insurance and the transportation subsidy by having 3 instead of 4 employees. I was cheaper than adding a forth full time employee.They worked 12 hour shifts, and there were 3 of them instead of 4 and they that roated. Extra pay for holidays, night shift, Sundays and overtime, it all adds up.They usally ended up working 6 days a week and then had several days off.

A family can survive on 2 salerys if they own thier own home. Just barely. It really takes 2 million for a family of 4 to live. 5 million to prosper.

That my friend is why this is a 3rd world country and many people are poor.

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