My payslip as a doctor in Feb 2021 during COVID

[Juniordoc]

See attached image. Yes this is for full-time work with weekends and nights in the currently stretched working conditions that the NHS provides.

This does not include the expenses and sacrifices of a six year medical degree. On top of that, we have to pay out of pocket for our own GMC membership, medical defence union, postgrad exams and revision courses, conferences and courses.

Please get behind us and support the strikes. We are burnout, exhausted and struggling to live

I support you and your colleagues.
Thank you for all that you do.

That's shocking. I support 100 percent.

Hope you get what you want, and need, and DESERVE!

Totally hear you, my cousin and her partner are junior doctors… close to burnout…xxx

I'm so sorry. Keep up the fight, we're with you.

It is quite shocking
I don’t know what the answer is until the British public accept that if you want to have decent services they have to pay for them via tax, and we get a government which prioritises them.

I'm shocked doctors earn so little. Totally support the strikes

No Student Loan?

100% support the strikes.

MPs always manage to give themselves a payrise don't they?!

That's ridiculous. You don't say how many hours you worked to get that amount,but I know that it's below my occupational pension.

I pay my cleaner £1.50 below the £14 per hour a junior doctor receives. While I value my cleaner very much, I wouldn't put her on nearly a par with a junior doctor.

No wonder doctors are leaving the NHS in droves.

I'm behalf of myself and my family, I am so sorry you are being treated this way

That’s ridiculously unfair. I’m so sorry.

I am with you. So much expected of so few for so little.

It's totally shit. But 35% is never going to happen.

I do support you but think someone needs to step in now and act as intermediary to get you what you deserve. Although my young family member medics disagree, I don’t think the BMA leadership is retaining the public’s hearts and minds as the week continues. (Agree Barclay not helping here either.)

I really hope you get a decent pay rise. It’s not much for this years of grind and all you do. Good luck!

I'd say that's a decent wage for a trainee. You will be earning mega bucks soon.

Having said that, your conditions are terrible and would warrant changing. Working too many hours without enough support. I totally get that you are exhausted and burnt out

That would have been deducted from a couple of months later (you get about 8 months grade once you've graduated before you start paying it back.)

What's your salary now? In five years? 10 years? 20 years?

I'd say that's a decent wage for a trainee.

FY doctors aren't trainees - they're qualified doctors, they just haven't yet started their specialism.

@Bivarb

my son gets £11 an hour on the checkout at Tesco, more when he does overtime.
Thats only £3 an hour less.
Yes they may go on to earn highly but they need to be able to live now.

@Bivarb I disagree. Yes if you were an unskilled trainee but having already studied for X amount of years to such a high level it should be more.

that is less than £200/month less than I get as a pastoral support worker getting paid pro rota for 41 wks of the year. It’s bloody hard work and under paid/resourced but isn’t remotely on a par with a junior doctor.

I supported the strikes anyway but having seen this I am shocked and also concerned for the future for my children and their children. Right behind you, thanks for all you do.

I think what has to be remembered is that FY1 doctors are trainees- they are being paid to learn and develop. DNiece is a trainee solicitor and earns not much more than the figure you’ve given.

Clearly doctors have huge potential to increase their earnings over time as they gain experience.

The 35% demand is bonkers- the BMA have clearly learnt nothing from the RCN’s failed 19% ask. I would support a sensible and affordable increase but not 35%.

Totally in your corner. 100%. It is a shame the government does not increase your pay substantially. Accountants and Lawyers earn far more than this once they qualify.

You’re an FY1 though, 28k is an okay wage for a new graduate, and it will rise. Working conditions need to improve though - I’ll give you that.

What does your current wage slip look like?

"Foundation Doctor Year 1" Google says

The UK Foundation Programme (UKFP) is the UK postgraduate training programme for new medical graduates.

So does that mean you are still in training and being trained by the NHS? If so I think that is a fair wage for the £££s that is still being spent on your training which you will reap rewards for in the future.