Dr. Juan Aristizábal is a Colombian doctor who is also dedicated to making content on social networks with which he reports on issues related to health and sexuality.
Currently, he has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and close to 2.9 million on Tik Tok.
In one of his most recent videos, a girl asked him, as a doctor working in Colombia, how much salary he earned and compared the figure with Dr. Jonathan Hemmert, who works in the United States.
In the clip, Hemmert justifies that a general practitioner who works in the United States earns about 18,000 dollars a month (which would be 80 million Colombian pesos). On the other hand, Dr. Aristizábal said that in Colombia a general practitioner could earn between 700 and 800 dollars a month (which in Colombian pesos is between 3 million and 3,500,000).
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Later, Dr. Jonathan allowed a doctor to work between 200 and 240 hours a month, while in Colombia, according to Dr. Juan, it can be 190 to 200 hours a month.
Finally, Hemmert said that he would not be willing to work as a doctor in Colombia with the salary that these professionals earned. While Aristizábal assured that he obviously would go to work in the United States.
The video has gone viral and already has some 4.6 million views and more than 232,000 “likes” on Tik Tok alone.
Comparing data, according to the portal Indeed, the salary of a doctor in the United States varies according to the years of experience they have and the city where they work. For example, a doctor in Indianapolis, which is where they pay the best according to the data from the aforementioned portal, You can earn about 249,238 dollars a year, which would be about 20,769 dollars a month (about 88 million pesos), a figure close to that given by Dr. Jonathan.
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In the case of Colombia, according to talent.com, a job search and recruitment platform, point out that A general practitioner in Colombia earns an average of 3,674,246 pesos.
A doctor in the United States can earn about $249,238 a year, which would be about $20,769 a month (about 88 million pesos).
“The salary of an average general practitioner in Colombia, by 2023, is $44,090,951 per year or $20,188 per hour. Entry-level positions start with an income of $36 million a year, while more experienced professionals earn up to $57,617,984 a year,” he explained. talent.com on your website.
The cost of living in the United States
Something that Internet users stressed, and that is worth taking into account, is that the cost of living in the United States is not the same as in Colombia, but rather it turns out to be higher.
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According to an article from tradeof Peru, the platform smart asset conducted a study in order to find out how much money is needed to cover essential expenses and live in the United States, even taking into account the inflation that the country is going through these days.
“The site found that a single person needs to earn, on average, after taxes, $68,499 a year to live comfortably.”, he commented.
Taking this information into account, a monthly salary of $5,708 would be needed, before taxes. These would be 25,397,746 pesos, with an exchange rate of May 24, 2023.
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