UK Family Docs making upto £380,000/year !

And that's even more that the £270,000 (More than US $600,000 in Dec'07 rates) made by Britain's highest paid General Practitioner in 2007. In Aug 2009 exchange rates, £380,000 translates to $622,000 US Dollars. (Yup, Pound has depreciated against the US greenback)

These salary rises have been occuring ever since a 2004 NHS payment contract that gave rich bonuses for extra work, weekend work and for taking care of certain conditions that NHS denotes as high priority. Appears that docs can easily take advantage of this by ignoring non-paying conditions like dementia and focusing more on the paying conditions. Before 2004, the average GP income lay in the annual £70,000-£80,000 range.

"In some cases the figures include cash GPs have to pay out for staff salaries and rents - But in Norfolk, one GP takes home £310,000 even after these are subtracted"

"GPs with their own pharmacies also increase their take-home pay" - which would apply in US too - have covered that here: Extra MD Income: Pharmacy within the practice

All this has obviously led to a public taxpayer outcry - Read Story Here

Family docs in the United States on the other usually lie at the bottom rungs of the MD incomes ladder with annual national averages around $160,000 like many US MD salary surveys show