Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

People see the salary, but they don’t see the sacrifice behind it.

25 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube video (creator/uploader: Kelly Alhooie) titled "People see the salary, but they don’t see the sacrifice behind it." A single-speaker monologue describing physician personal-finance tradeoffs: typical medical-school debt cited at about $500,000 (speaker’s own ~$300,000 due to scholarships), residency pay around $45,000–$60,000/year (noted as roughly $8/hour), and variability in post-training income with primary-care physicians earning about $200,000–$300,000/year.

Questions this video answers

Around $500,000.

Around $300,000 (speaker notes college was free and they had a strong scholarship).

Around $45,000–$60,000 per year.

About $8 per hour (speaker's calculation).

About $200,000–$300,000 per year.

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How much money does a doctor make? So people come out of medical school with a debt of around $500,000. My debt was around 300,000 because college was free. I had a pretty strong scholarship, so I just had to pay for, like, living expenses. Once you come out, you start working in residency, which is around 45 to 60,000 a year. But if you calculate per hour, you make $8 an hour. And then once you come out, there's a lot of variability in how much you can earn. Being a primary care doctor, the earning is somewhere in the 200 to 300,000 per year.