That’s wonderful for them, but perhaps abnormal, especially for non-surgeons.
I see. Some agencies that pay LEAP + OT can exceed that figure even before capping out, and I was thinking of a high cost of living area, but yours is certainly a good point.And as a "capped out" 1811 with LEAP, I'm making considerably less than $150K per year - Rest of US locality being what it is...
Thanks for the replies, will parse through them shortly. Quick reply- Wife is at Duke, wants to go into emergency medicine. Knocked STEP1 out of the park, great grades so far into her third year. Should be a relatively portable specialty. Widening the aperture to 1811 positions as well as local and state positions.
"Are you ready? Okay. Let's roll."- Last words of Todd Beamer
My brother in law is a high school level educated CBP agent. Single. Works a lot. Has about 20 years in. With overtime, working about 60 hours a week he is pulling in $140,000/year before his retirement, health benefits.
There are a lot or primary care physicians that would love that deal.
Your viewpoint is extremely off base. Only the Spine guys regularly pull in over 800k last I checked. Your brother is pretty amazing or crazy busy or able to take a piece of his underling's income if he is pulling in that much.
This seems correct:
https://www.salary.com/research/sala...surgeon-salary
This seems pretty low:
https://www.indeed.com/salaries/surgeon-Salaries
These are salaries, so net. But of course there are taxes, loans, etc. But those don't really count in this exercise. Malpractice insurance would be paid before salary. Loans come out of the person's income unless there is some payback arrangement.
For me personally, my net is about 45% of gross. Used to be more like 55% but overhead is increasing. I should also note that most medical salaries are flat to decreasing. At least that is what I have seen over the last 19 years. My best year was my fourth year in practice and it has been a slow deterioration since.
I'm not LE, never was. I also know nothing about the culture in the Border Patrol. I did however grow up on the border and understand many of the social and economic complexities there. I can only look at that from a non LE perspective though so can't be much help. I have known some CBP agents and made it a point to talk to them when I could. Mostly my impression is they're a pretty squared away agency.
If you're looking at CBP I would read this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Line-Becomes-.../dp/B072SSGP1K
I can relate to a lot of it. It's very informative about the culture and work. CBP would definitely be a consideration for me if I were younger and looking for a job in LE. Just about anywhere along the border except maybe CA would be a great place to work and live. I've lived in TX and AZ on the border and traveled in NM enough to know that it's a pretty decent place to live. I have relatives still living there and get down there every chance I get.
CBP is going to get a lot of action on the border in the coming years. It's a war zone.
Last edited by Borderland; 01-27-2020 at 04:57 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.