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<p>The career earnings of a doctor will depend on many factors and are therefore highly
specific to individual circumstances. They will depend on decisions around gap years
and career breaks, part-time working, the choice between general practice and other
specialties, when they leave the National Health Service or retire and on the speed
of progression through training. However, indications can be provided by constructing
a hypothetical career based on reasonable assumptions in-line with current data.</p><p>
</p><p>It is estimated that assuming a 40 year full time career from Foundation Programme
up to consultant or partner in General Practice, a junior doctor starting training
in August 2016 could expect to earn around £4 million or an average of around £100,000
per year in 2016/17 prices.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Comparisons of pay across
industries and sectors are notoriously difficult, capturing differences in pressures
and working patterns is particularly complicated. Comparison of recent earnings growth
for doctors compared with other high-earning occupations shows that doctors remain
one of the very highest-earning occupations in the United Kingdom.</p><p> </p>
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