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Doctor Salary

Is there a cap on how much doctors such as family physicians can make in Ontario (i.e. specifically GTA)? i thought it was $400k, but have heard rumours they can make more if working in multiple clinics.

Does anyone know if family physicians have a salary cap?
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Oct 15, 2017
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yellowlight18 wrote: Is there a cap on how much doctors such as family physicians can make in Ontario (i.e. specifically GTA)? i thought it was $400k, but have heard rumours they can make more if working in multiple clinics.

Does anyone know if family physicians have a salary cap?
According to a google search there is no salary cap in Ontario.

Salary cap for doctors in Ontario?
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Think of the Childre…
The more patients you see the more $$ they get.

WOULD SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
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Do not confuse billings with salary.

Doctors working in a hospital get paid a salary.

Doctors having their own practice have billings, from which, about 25-35% goes towards overhead. So their salary is usually less than 70% of their billings.

No, there isn't a hard cap on billings, but you could easily be audited if something seems sketchy to the province.
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Depends:

If own practice sky is limit depending on how many hours you work (some work all day and night, some come on a Tuesday for 2 hours).

You can also be hired by a walk in practice, etc. Generally doctors either give % of billings or paid hourly (around $200-$300 per hour). Most pay % of billings unless its a new clinic that doesnt have very many patients cause the doctor isn't sitting around to see a few patients per hour, so will have to incentive with hourly.

Average full time family doctor nets anywhere from $150-$250k in Ontario
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Someone told they can easily make around $800k-900k a year. Not sure if this is true for a family physician....seems a bit much?
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yellowlight18 wrote: Someone told they can easily make around $800k-900k a year. Not sure if this is true for a family physician....seems a bit much?
Family doctor... extremely rare.

Some higher end specialists... yeah I can see it
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Sanyo wrote: Family doctor... extremely rare.

Some higher end specialists... yeah I can see it
A lot of people also see their gross salary, but always got to remember they have their overhead to cover.

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