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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes thats an insane amount to be paid for usaid[/quote]

why can't she retire? Didn't she have the good gov benefits? [/quote]

SHE WORKS AT A NONPROFIT. Maybe the pay is high, but the argument is that by having competitive pay you can attract talent that can put the multi-million dollar budget to its most effective use. Paying below market wages for CEOs, etc, the business side of the nonprofit will suffer.

Let’s be honest, most doctors pay is largely funded by the government by Medicaid, Medicare, tax deductions for insurance, etc and no one complains about their high salaries.  [/quote]

Everyone complains about doctor salaries.[/quote]

Some do, but because doctor training is so long and arduous, a lot of people are like "oh well, someone has to do it." Lawyers and other white collar professionals do not spend four years in grad school plus another 3 to 8 years as residents and fellows (making not very much money while also having to pay student loans if they have them). By the time someone is actually eligible to make a high doctor salary, they have "suffered" in a way that most well-paid professionals have not, and that makes people feel a bit more understanding. Also not all doctors make very high salaries -- family doctors, pediatricians, and internists are much lower paid than surgical specialities, which means the doctors people interact with most often tend not to be super highly paid, and when a person encounters a very high paid doctor, it's like "well yeah if you are going to be cutting people open and sewing them back together and saving lives for a living, maybe yes we should pay you a lot".

So when you hear a doctor is making 300k, you might grumble a bit about how this is why healthcare is so expensive. But more likely you are thinking, "I hope this cardiologist is good."

Whereas if you encounter someone working for a non-profit, with maybe a masters degree and some experience but nothing similar to the kind of training doctors go through, making over 250k, it's like "wtf, how does one get that sweet gig?"[/quote]

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