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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love a new job that earns that much money per hour- please tell me PP what you do to earn that much money.  I am not baiting you, I am genuinely interested. I am a teacher and I need a higher income.

[quote=Anonymous]I see the flip side. I see a bunch of mostly women in these therapy and similar roles (dev pediatricians being the exception) making shockingly low rates for the services they are providing, the care they put into things, the "free time" they give with texts and panicked calls outside of the time they are on the books.

My rate is $1800 an hour. My friends who are doctors are around $700-1500 per hour. And OT and even MD psychs make $100-$250 per hour.  My electrician makes the same or more as our therapists and didn't go to college, while every therapist has a masters or more.  I think that's scandalous. I make a point of always paying extra the minute we go overtime and making sure they don't undercut their rates for me.  I have the money, so of course that helps.  Not everyone can. But no one expects a cancer MD to work for cheap just because the govt isn't covering the bill. Not sure why these docs and other providers should?

And to take it further, i guess we shouldn't be surprised that there are delays and errors in their work product when they're being paid insultingly low wages.

I know it sucks for a lot of parents who can't afford a lot of this stuff, but it's not your providers' fault that the US doesn't provide robust social services.  [/quote][/quote]

DP, but some lawyers charge $1800 an hour. You would have to go back to school for 3 years, pass the bar and work at a big law firm for 7 years where you were expected to work year round (no summers off) and able to work weekends and late nights and bill over 2000 hours a year (which typically requires working much more than 2000 hours as not every hour is billable) more if you wanted a good bonus.
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