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Starting pay is still around $130 for primary care physicans in the northern Virginia, from the offers my husband got last summer . He finished residency and we would have loved to stay in the area  but the pay wasn’t enough for us to deal with his $220k in loans and have a life with our kids. He makes a bit over $200k out west where we moved but it is a higher needs population, as you said. 
[b]And to the pp asking about pediatric sub specialties, most subspecialties are actually a pay cut or the same amount as a pcp[/b], especially considering all the additional years of residency that you need to go through.  Peds is rough financially but very rewarding to him personally [/quote]

It depends on the sub-specialty. As you are doubtless aware there are sub-specialties that pay substantially more than what a pediatrician makes. What is true is that a pediatric sub-specialty generally pays less - sometimes quite a bit less - than the adult equivalent of that specialty. For example, a pp mentioned a couple and one can add to that pediatric sub-specialties within gastro, emergency medicine, critical care, dermatology, anesthesia, etc if one really wants to work with children. Of course, it does involve additional years to get a fellowship and some of these sub-specialties are very competitive.[/quote]

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