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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son, also an INFP, plans to attend med school and eventually become a psychiatrist.  Could you tell me the typical salary range for your type of position?  Son won’t have loans to repay but he hopes to work with teens and their families around here or else work in the ER.  The COL is just so incredibly high here now, but so many people in the DMV need help.  
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Psychiatrist here.  My salary has varied.  Most places it's about $200-250k/yr and slightly more for child psychiatry if he wants to work with teens.  Salaries are more or less government controlled though, so it's subject to change, and it looks like they are increasing, particularly in rural areas.  It's also easy to work more if you want to make more money.  
 There would be a lot of opportunities to work with adolescents and their families either through the juvenile justice system, inpatient psychiatry unit, substance use rehab, eating disorders, adolescent DBT groups and clinics, or just general outpatient.

Many people do a combination of inpatient and outpatient, and it's rare to have a non-compete clause on a contract, so he could easily work in an outpatient clinic with teens and families and pick up PES (psychiatric emergency services) shifts as well.

I hope medical school goes well for him.  Psychiatry is a great specialty!

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