GP salary

[cardy1969]

How much do you think a GP earns after 33 years of practice and after being a partner in a practice for more than 15 years? Rural English location.

75k?

130k

Over 100k for sure

Depends an variables. Gross or net pay? How many sessions per week? List size? Dispensing practice? Local incentive schemes? Mainly partners or paying salaried GPs too?

I work in GP land and have seen partners taking home anything between £50-£250k

Interesting. I don't know too much about the workings of the practice. There are 3 partners and 3 salaried GPS. Full-time hours. Not sure about the list size of local incentives. I would have thought that over 30 years would mean a pretty large salary.

Meant to say - gross annual salary.

GP salaries don’t tend to go up year on year in that way. They are often partners in their own practice, so they own a share of the business, and some practices will be more profitable than others. Workload for GPs has increased significantly, so some are cutting back on additional activity which might have brought more money into the business previously. There’s a huge range of salaries.

£150k

Annual take home pay does not go up withevery year of experience. Partners are independent contractors to the NHS who run their own business, and get paid on share of profits so no guaranteed salary. Annual take home pay has been dropping over the past few years. A full time partner might earn anywhere between £75-£120 but most around £80-£100k.

Ah, OK I thought it was more.

£130k

In England, every GP practice has to publish the average annual earnings of the doctors in that practice.

I’m salaried so earn much less than the partners at my practice.

Thanks to the Daily Fail running stories about the very, very exceptional GP who earns £150k a year, people are often surprised to find out out my real earnings.

...should have said they have to publish it on their website. So you can take a look.

In England, every GP practice has to publish the average annual earnings of the doctors in that practice.

Shame it's meaningless as it doesn't reflect whether part time or full time. So a practice with lots of part time workers shows a ridiculously low average earnings figure. At the very least the figures should be adjusted to equivalent full time earnings rate.

Just looked at the practice that I'm interested in, a lot less than I expected. 4 f/t 1 p/t and 1 locum for 6 months.

How many clinical sessions is a FT partner at the practice? A 9 session partner could well be earning 100k. At some practices 8 sessions is now FT to reflect the hours involved. Partners pay their own indemnity which is approx 10k.

I'd say £150k plus

Just make sure you are a GP in a cheaper housing area. The salaries/earnings are great in that scenario. Less great elsewhere, particularly in London.