- The United States is the country with the most attractive salaries for health professionals.
- Based on estimates, a doctor there receives up to 10 times more than what is offered in Mexico.
- In our country, the average monthly salary of doctors is 16,761 pesos.
The responsibility that health professionals have is too much because the well-being of patients is in their hands. That is why so many years of study and training are needed. But in the same way that too much is demanded of them, they should also be rewarded fairly. In some countries this is the case because they are the ones that stand out for offering the higher salaries to their doctors.
All the sacrifices that must be made
Now, an erroneous thought that prevails in a large part of the population is that everything related to health should be free. They even look down on doctors who charge for their services. It is a situation faced by thousands of workers on a daily basis.
Something that not many take into account is that doctors are people like everyone else. For the same reason, they need money to subsist and be able to maintain a decent lifestyle.
In the same way, to be a professional it is necessary to sacrifice time and money. The career is not cheap because you have to buy books and uniforms on a daily basis. It is also quite extensive and in the end everything costs.
In this case, when reviewing the world panorama, some countries stand out because they are the ones that offer the highest salaries to their doctors. To find out what they are the portal Lenstore carried out an investigation and in the end obtained the 10 that best treat their doctors.
In this regard, the first place goes to the United States. When making the conversion, it is obtained that the payment for a year of work is equivalent to four million 330 thousand pesos. That means little more than 10 times what a doctor in Mexico receives.
While Belgium appears in second position. The work indicates that the average annual salary is 3.8 million pesos. This means 322 thousand pesos per month.
The next nations to appear are Finland, the Netherlands and Norway. In addition to fair payments, they all stand out for their advanced health systems. Each one has attractive well-equipped hospitals that allow doctors to carry out their duties without pressure.
Even if you take into account the “worst” place on the list, which is Denmark, there is a fairly large margin compared to Mexico. In this European country, a doctor has an annual salary of two million 520 thousand pesos. That means up to five times what one receives in our country.
What is the salary of a doctor in Mexico?
On the other hand, Mexico is not a country that stands out for offering fair or at least decent salaries to its doctors. It cannot be generalized but in most cases the pay is not equivalent to all the previous sacrifices that had to be made. In addition, you know very well that patient care is too complex and there are usually many who need to be seen in one day. That leads to exhausting days every day.
To get an idea, last year the Labor Observatory portal published the results of a national analysis. The objective was to obtain the updated average salaries of different professions in Mexico.
What was obtained is that the average monthly salary of a doctor in Mexico is 16 thousand 761 pesos. It is also mentioned that it currently has an occupation of 328 thousand 321 professionals. While 59.2 percent of them correspond to men.