How much do I earn as a Doctor in the UK (Full breakdown of my salary 2024)
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Published 2023-06-02
In this video I document every single detail of a junior doctor pay slip. At least to the extent that I've been able to understand the pay slip myself. This pay slip would look very different for a consultant or a fully qualified GP but for average folks like you and me, this video should be a good starting point. We work normal 8-5 shift and also work anti-social shifts (meaning, shifts which take you away from the time you'd have spent socializing or sleeping). All this gives us basic income and then some more. So after all that income combined, we discuss taxes, national insurance, pension and debts that are deducted from our income every month. Technically I don't even like to think of taxes as anything bad or a loss of my income. I have arranged my mindset in a way that the gross pay before taxes is just an imaginary number and I am never going to get that number simply. It's only when I would start a business that I would crib about my income being lost in taxes because every bit of that money was something I worked hard to earn from my clients (by quoting/negotiating/bargaining etc.). Such a concept doesn't apply to employees.
Hopefully you come out learning something about our pay slip as well as seeing how well you can expect to earn in your future years working as a doctor in the UK.
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CHAPTERS ⬇
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0:00 Intro
0:43 My Salary (but not final earning)
1:09 Why a junior doctor should watch this video
1:37 Basic salary for all doctors
2:22 What is basic salary
2:52 What is the pay for anti-social hours?
4:18 My Pay slip
4:36 My Income section
4:55 Basic Pay hours
6:09 Additional Roster Hours
6:46 Night Duty
8:22 Weekends
9:12 Summary of income (+Taxman guest appearance)
10:26 Deductions
10:36 PAYE
11:04 UK Income tax brackets
12:42 National Insurance
13:12 NHS funding
14:40 National Insurance Brackets
15:07 Pension (+Old Abhinav guest appearance)
18:47 CRB Enhanced check
19:41 Net effective income
20:14 Bills and savings
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My name is Abhinav Kumar. I am a junior doctor (means any doctor who has not yet got the full license to practice independently, aka someone who is not yet a "Consultant") working in the UK. I did med school from India and got MBBS degree from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore in 2020. Then I spent 2 years during COVID working on PLAB exams which are like USMLE but for the UK. I eventually got a job in the UK and now I am working full-time as a doctor, with YouTube on the side for fun and information sharing.
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All Comments (21)
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I feel really sorry for you guys. A basic salary of £32k is a joke, even after years of work you can only earn £58k that's absurd. I pay my children's nanny more than that and she has no qualifications. She's on about £50k a year. And I know that most nannies (not mine though) receive their salary in 100% cash (so no tax) and claim benefits - some are live in so don't pay rent, so they are on more like £70k a year.
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To anyone out there saying "doctors are paid as much ss my bank manager". You should realise your bank manager wont ever be at your bedside trying to save your life.
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I am a professional Engineer and worked in several engineering firms in the UK for 12 years. I left UK because of low pay scale and hefty Tax and NI deductions. I ended up working in KSA where salary is great and no deduction at all.
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Every single doctor in the UK has started talking about money and complaining every single day. I wish that in the future we an have an American style medical system so that only top notch doctors stay prominent and get rewarded. Rest of them can concentrate more on their performance and effectiveness before talking of rewards and money.
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This world is messed up, how comes a HGV driver with no qualifications can earn more than a doctor who spent half of his life studying, this doesn’t make any sense to me!!!!!!!
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I can understand why so many doctors left the UK and sought higher salaries abroad with better working conditions. It's for this same reason why I was part of that massive exodus of further and higher education teachers that left the UK from the early 2000s to countries which respected the knowledge and skills we had to contribute. It was interesting to see how a shortage left many universities with little choice but to either close or merge a lot of departments.
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Your viddo has really opened my eyes to how little junior doctors are paid. I am shocked. You all deserve so much more. I can understand why doctors are striking!
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Welldone for this. My sister just began working as a Medical doctor in the UK and I wish she had the nuanced kind of attitude that you have. She has been brainwashed to see everything as negative sadly.
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Im not a doctor but i found the video very informative and i learned things i didnt know. Ive been a uk citizen from birth too 😂
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Useful thanks 😮
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very informative
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He's lucky to pay only around £500-600 per month. Average rent is more like £1,300 per month, more than double. Then his training in India was much cheaper, and yet he can practise in UK.
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I am astounded .l would earn £40000 as a nurse if l was full time in the care sector.Then people wonder why l will not go back to nhs( now ihs)International health service )except l do permanent nights for no extra and have been qualified over 3 decades.ihs wanted to pay 24000 a year. Newly qualified wage (l am mental health trained not ill!
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Very educative.....
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It's ridiculous how much tax is taken. I think tou deserve all the money and more you doctors are doing such an amazing job❤
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Since the creation of YouTube 20 years ago, we had to wait for the arrival of this Doctor Kumar to finally have the real figures, congratulations to this Doctor and shame to the others in all the UK, who are visibly secretive, horse-dealers, even malicious?
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one of my friend is a truck driver he earns £65000 gross... 🤔🤔 how come is that🙆♂️
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Very informative! Keep it up.
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Unbelievable 😅 I was complaining for getting that much by sitting in the office drinking coffee and sharing cookies 😅 but that's so low considering current prices. We definitely need more french come in and protest for the rest😅
